• event thread chucked up a core dump

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sat Oct 4 22:33:56 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/981#note_7703

    It appears it was the 3rd timed event "last run time" that was trying to be read from the `time.ini` file when this issue happened. That file is only read when the event thread is started during terminal server startup or recycle.
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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sat Oct 4 22:49:22 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/981#note_7704

    ... so my guess is that it's a recycling related issue, so I'd look at the log around the time this occurred for any other warnings or errors from the terminal server.
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  • From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sat Oct 4 23:09:11 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/981#note_7705

    Not sure if this would explain it:

    Corefile was created Oct 3 16:04


    ```
    Oct 3 16:03:13 bbs synchronet: term Recycle semaphore file (/sbbs/ctrl/recycle) detected
    Oct 3 16:03:13 bbs synchronet: term Waiting for events thread to terminate... Oct 3 16:03:13 bbs synchronet: term Terminal Server output thread terminated (sent 184611 bytes in 2455 blocks, 75 average, 0 short)
    Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: term Done waiting for events thread to terminate
    Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: term Terminal Server destructor begin
    Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: term Terminal Server destructor end
    Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: term Terminal Server thread terminating
    [snip]
    Oct 3 16:03:16 bbs synchronet: term Recycling server...
    Oct 3 16:03:18 bbs synchronet: term Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a Debug
    [snip]
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: term Terminal Server thread started for nodes 1 through 10
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: term Recycle semaphore signaled
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: term Waiting for system output thread to terminate...
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: term Done waiting for system output thread to terminate
    [snip]
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: term Recycling server...
    Oct 3 16:05:07 bbs synchronet: term Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.21a Debug
    ```

    There was a lot of recycling and a big gap between 16:03:36 and 16:05:07 which, I assume, is when it was doing a core dump.

    event thread just has

    ```
    Oct 3 16:02:53 bbs synchronet: evnt FIDOIN Running native background timed event: /sbbs/exec/sbbsecho -ce
    Oct 3 16:02:53 bbs synchronet: evnt FIDOIN Executing external: /sbbs/exec/sbbsecho -ce
    Oct 3 16:02:54 bbs synchronet: evnt FIDOIN Background timed event spawned: /sbbs/exec/sbbsecho -ce
    Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events JavaScript: Destroying context Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events JavaScript: Destroying runtime Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events BBS Events thread terminated Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events destructor begin
    Oct 3 16:03:14 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events destructor end
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events constructor using socket -1 (settings=8212)
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events temporary file directory: /sbbs/tmp/event/
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events BBS Events thread started
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events JavaScript: Creating event runtime: 536870912 bytes
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events destructor begin
    Oct 3 16:03:36 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events destructor end
    Oct 3 16:05:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events constructor using socket -1 (settings=8212)
    Oct 3 16:05:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events temporary file directory: /sbbs/tmp/event/
    Oct 3 16:05:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events BBS Events thread started
    Oct 3 16:05:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BBS Events JavaScript: Creating event runtime: 536870912 bytes
    ```

    Surprised nothing actually reported a seg fault
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  • From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Wed Oct 29 22:39:13 2025
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/981
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  • From Nigel Reed@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Oct 29 22:39:14 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/981#note_7806

    Closing this as unable to reproduce and will reopen if it happens again.
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