open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/844

A user has logged into my BBS, read a message in DDMR and then the session has hung. Over an hour later session is still active.

I used umonitor to spy on user's session, selected [Q]uit, user back to main menu, then after a few minutes sbbs booted the user off due to inactivity.

DDMR should also boot users off due to inactivity.

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Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when reading mess
By: Keyop Troy to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Wed Dec 18 2024 05:23 pm

A user has logged into my BBS, read a message in DDMR and then the session has hung. Over an hour later session is still active.

I used umonitor to spy on user's session, selected [Q]uit, user back to main menu, then after a few minutes sbbs booted the user off due to inactivity.

DDMR should also boot users off due to inactivity.

Try to find out what terminal was being used.

I recently had someone encounter a similar problem on my board while doing a new-message scan in DDMR while using IcyTerm. To the user, the board appeared to lock their session. However, the Synchronet Control Panel was running other nodes and events just fine at the time. I came to find out the session wasn't actually locked, but showed an entire screen's worth of blank space over top of the reader. I recreated the problem by logging into my BBS with IcyTerm, and I was able to watch the DDMR screen appear and then disappear before my eyes by using a slow baud emulation setting (19200).

The user switched from IcyTerm to NetRunner and as far as I know the problem hasn't happened since.

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close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/844

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Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when reading mes
By: Codefenix to Keyop Troy on Wed Dec 18 2024 09:32 pm

DDMR should also boot users off due to inactivity.

Try to find out what terminal was being used.

I made a fix yesterday (as it indeed seemed to be a bug in DDMessageReader) which should fix the issue. Basically, the issue was that there's a function that lets the user scroll up & down through a set of text lines (which is used for reading a message with the scrollable interface), and it apparently wasn't properly checking for getting no user input (which indicates an input timeout occurred).

Nightfox

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Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when reading mes
By: Nightfox to Codefenix on Thu Dec 19 2024 09:58 am

I made a fix yesterday (as it indeed seemed to be a bug in DDMessageReader) which should fix the issue. Basically, the issue was that there's a function that lets the user scroll up & down through a set of text lines (which is used for reading a message with the scrollable interface), and it apparently wasn't properly checking for getting no user input (which indicates an input timeout occurred).

Very nice! I can confirm the the behavior I observed while using DDMR & IcyTerm is no longer happening.

However, IcyTerm (0.7.8) still likes to randomly drop carrier, mainly with Sync boards for some reason. That's obviously a whole other issue and isn't DDMR's problem though :D

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Codefenix wrote to Nightfox <=-

Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when reading mes
By: Nightfox to Codefenix on Thu Dec 19 2024 09:58 am

I made a fix yesterday (as it indeed seemed to be a bug in DDMessageReader) which should fix the issue. Basically, the issue was that there's a function that lets the user scroll up & down through a set of text lines (which is used for reading a message with the scrollable interface), and it apparently wasn't properly checking for getting no user input (which indicates an input timeout occurred).

Very nice! I can confirm the the behavior I observed while using DDMR & IcyTerm is no longer happening.

However, IcyTerm (0.7.8) still likes to randomly drop carrier, mainly
with Sync boards for some reason. That's obviously a whole other issue
and isn't DDMR's problem though :D

Does IcyTerm do anything that SyncTerm (or NetRunner) don't do? If not,
why use it?



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Codefenix wrote to Nightfox <=-

Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when

reading

mes By: Nightfox to Codefenix on Thu Dec 19 2024 09:58 am

I made a fix yesterday (as it indeed seemed to be a bug in DDMessageReader) which should fix the issue. Basically, the issue

was

that there's a function that lets the user scroll up & down through a

set

of text lines (which is used for reading a message with the

scrollable

interface), and it apparently wasn't properly checking for getting no

user

input (which indicates an input timeout occurred).

Very nice! I can confirm the the behavior I observed while using DDMR

&

IcyTerm is no longer happening.

However, IcyTerm (0.7.8) still likes to randomly drop carrier, mainly with Sync boards for some reason. That's obviously a whole other

issue

and isn't DDMR's problem though :D

Does IcyTerm do anything that SyncTerm (or NetRunner) don't do? If not, why use it?

It supports IEMSI logins on my system. Along with SSH credentials, supports full hands-off logon via SSH using a linux SSH connection when the BBS
doesn't support it natively.

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Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when reading mes
By: Gamgee to Codefenix on Fri Dec 20 2024 06:41 pm

Does IcyTerm do anything that SyncTerm (or NetRunner) don't do? If not, why use it?

Personally I prefer SyncTERM and don't really care about IcyTerm at all.

But when users make the claim that my board is locking up on them whenever using that particular terminal, then that's something I want to understand. Especially when said terminal is gaining in popularity.

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Re: DDMsgReader - Inactivity timer does not seem to work when reading mes
By: Codefenix to Gamgee on Tue Sep 07 1971 13:36:32

Does IcyTerm do anything that SyncTerm (or NetRunner) don't do? If not,
why use it?

Personally I prefer SyncTERM and don't really care about IcyTerm at all.

But when users make the claim that my board is locking up on them whenever using that particular terminal, then that's something I want to understand. Especially when said terminal is gaining in popularity.

Cant say I've ever heard of it, Will have to look it up later when I get a chance.
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