[Dxspider-support] Ubuntu 9.04 - console.pl
Dirk Koopman G1TLH
gb7tlh at dxcluster.org
Sun Sep 27 11:35:49 BST 2009
Ron Gibson wrote:
> After many years of service my old Mandrake box bit the dust so I
> decided to build a new machine and use Ubuntu 9.04. Getting Spider
> restored from a backup and running was quite simple. Over the past
> couple of weeks I installed all the Ubuntu updates and installed a few
> other applications. All was well until I had to reboot the system
> yesterday. Spider runs just fine BUT now console.pl does not. Telnet
> into it works fine. Logging into a tty on the actual machine and running
> console.pl I see the screen clear and the bottom status line appear.
> Then it exits back to the command prompt. Logging in via SSH and running
> console.pl I don't get anything. It immediately exits back to the prompt.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what I might have broken? Since console.pl
> worked just fine until I rebooted leads me to think it's a path or
> environment variable. Removing and reinstalling curses had no effect.
>
For what it is worth, I run ubuntu 9.04 here. And it works for me.
try: perl -d console.pl
If you get a prompt (and no errors) then type: r <return>
at the prompt and (in either case) report back what happens.
Dirk
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