From: va7aqd@VA7AQDS.remove-ryk-this

Hi all,

Another side issue on one of the stock doors. I can't seem to get a game in Synchronetris going. The synchronetris.ini is stock,
allowing for a minimum of 1 players, server.ini is set to localhost, the entry in json-service.ini is there.

Everything seems to work with getting ready to play the game. Can enter the game, ask to play, the user's status goes green when
hitting [R]eady, and then nothing. Can chat, exit, etc. But the game never starts even after waiting several minutes.

Logs seem to suggest everything is happy (as far as I can tell):

Apr 26 12:51:38 home synchronet: term Node 2 <Va7aqd> running external program:
Synchronetris
Apr 26 12:51:39 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 57 SUBSCRIBE channels.#synchronetris.messages OK
Apr 26 12:51:39 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 57 LOCK channels.#synchronetris.history OK
Apr 26 12:51:39 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 57 SLICE channels.#synchronetris.history OK
Apr 26 12:51:39 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 57 LOCK channels.#synchronetris.history OK
Apr 26 12:51:39 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 57 WHO channels.#synchronetris.messages OK
Apr 26 12:52:16 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON releasing subscription: channels.#synchronetris.messages

Be interesting to know if this issue has shown up for anyone else.

Thanks!

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From: echicken@ECBBS.remove-byg-this

To: Va7aqd
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: Va7aqd to All on Fri Apr 26 2019 12:58:08

Everything seems to work with getting ready to play the game. Can enter the game, ask to play, the user's status goes green when hitting [R]eady,

Hit [Enter] at this point and you'll be brought into the game. Unfortunately I don't think there's any prompt on the screen that tells you this.

and then nothing. Can chat, exit, etc. But the game never starts even

What's happening is that it's waiting for some other player(s) to come along, join your game, and signal that they're ready to play head-to-head. You can skip that and go single-player if you want.

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From: va7aqd@VA7AQDS.remove-kz6-this

To: echicken
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: echicken to Va7aqd on Fri Apr 26 2019 07:40 pm

Hit [Enter] at this point and you'll be brought into the game.
Unfortunately I don't think there's any prompt on the screen that tells you this.

Nada, had tried hammering bunches of keys in the past, but just checked again and Enter isn't doing anything helpful either. Even
after several seconds.

You can skip that and go single-player if you want.

I wish I could!

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From: echicken@ECBBS.remove-ax1-this

To: Va7aqd
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: Va7aqd to echicken on Fri Apr 26 2019 21:51:11

Nada, had tried hammering bunches of keys in the past, but just checked again and Enter isn't doing anything helpful either. Even after several seconds.

Very strange. It worked for me here earlier (I tried before I posted).

It might be worth checking your services log, right after startup, and looking for any error messages related to the JSON service. There is a background script involved here, and I think it does something re: coordinating matches; perhaps it's crashing or something.

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From: va7aqd@VA7AQDS.remove-tsq-this

To: echicken
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: echicken to Va7aqd on Sat Apr 27 2019 03:07 am

It might be worth checking your services log, right after startup, and looking for any error messages related to the JSON service. There is a background script involved here, and I think it does something re: coordinating matches; perhaps it's crashing or something.

I wish there were something interesting happening in the log - I have Debug level set in sbbs.ini, and this is all I get when
trying to get the game going:

Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--55: 127.0.0.1 connected
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON service clients: 3
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK settings OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ settings OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK settings OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ games OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK profiles OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ profiles OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK profiles OK
Apr 27 21:21:36 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 WHO games OK
Apr 27 21:21:37 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 SUBSCRIBE games OK
Apr 27 21:22:03 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games.1 OK
Apr 27 21:22:03 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ games.1 OK
Apr 27 21:22:03 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 WRITE games.1.players.Va7aqd OK
Apr 27 21:22:03 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games.1 OK
Apr 27 21:22:05 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games.1.players.Va7aqd.ready OK
Apr 27 21:22:05 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 WRITE games.1.players.Va7aqd.ready OK
Apr 27 21:22:05 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games.1.players.Va7aqd.ready OK
... some time later, I quit:
Apr 27 21:23:15 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--55: 127.0.0.1 disconnected Apr 27 21:23:15 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON service clients: 4
Apr 27 21:23:15 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON releasing subscription: channels.#synchronetris.messages
Apr 27 21:23:15 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON releasing subscription: games

I wish something more interesting were being logged!

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From: va7aqd@VA7AQDS.remove-tsq-this

To: echicken
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: Va7aqd to echicken on Sat Apr 27 2019 09:27 pm

Actually I thought I was seeing another unrelated process do things at the same
time, so omitted the 2nd services connection parts
in the logs. Here's a more accurate set of logs:

Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--55: 127.0.0.1 connected
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON service clients: 3
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK settings OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ settings OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK settings OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ games OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK games OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK profiles OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 READ profiles OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 LOCK profiles OK
Apr 27 21:30:52 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 WHO games OK
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--58: 127.0.0.1 connected
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON service clients: 4
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 58 SUBSCRIBE channels.#synchronetris.messages OK
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 58 LOCK channels.#synchronetris.history OK
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 58 SLICE channels.#synchronetris.history OK
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 58 LOCK channels.#synchronetris.history OK
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 58 WHO channels.#synchronetris.messages OK
Apr 27 21:30:53 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON db: 55 SUBSCRIBE games OK
Apr 27 21:31:08 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--55: 127.0.0.1 disconnected Apr 27 21:31:08 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON service clients: 4
Apr 27 21:31:08 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--58: 127.0.0.1 disconnected Apr 27 21:31:08 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON service clients: 3
Apr 27 21:31:08 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON releasing subscription: channels.#synchronetris.messages
Apr 27 21:31:08 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON releasing subscription: games

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From: echicken@ECBBS.remove-yzb-this

To: Va7aqd
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: Va7aqd to echicken on Sat Apr 27 2019 21:27:24

It might be worth checking your services log, right after startup, and

I wish there were something interesting happening in the log - I have Debug level set in sbbs.ini, and this is all I get when trying to get the game going:

To clarify, when I said "at startup" I meant at the startup of the BBS (or right after your services thread has been recycled) as this is when the game's service script would launch (not when someone launches the game itself). If the service script is crashing, this is when it would happen.

The service script is something that stays connected and waits for updates from the game's JSON-DB module. It manages a bunch of different things, and I don't think the game will work at all without it (even if chunks of the front end are usable).

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From: va7aqd@VA7AQDS.remove-mcx-this

To: echicken
Re: Synchronetris won't start a game
By: echicken to Va7aqd on Sun Apr 28 2019 01:05 am

To clarify, when I said "at startup" I meant at the startup of the BBS (or right after your services thread has been recycled) as this is when the game's service script would launch (not when someone launches the game itself). If the service script is crashing, this is when it would happen.

Sorry about that, didn't quite grok the intended meaning! OK, so, when SBBS starts, we see:

Apr 28 21:26:18 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): ../xtrn/synchronetris/synchronetris.json
Apr 28 21:26:18 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON loaded module: synchronetris ...
Apr 28 21:26:18 home synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON Synchronetris background service initialized

And that's all there is that specifically mentions 'netris.

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