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Having an issue with this. I installed Control and when I restarted, get an error for wgsgen2.dat. Have to disable Control to get the board to start up. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi,

If you unzipped the files from the latest ZIP on the website and placed them in your BBS directory, you have done it correctly. Are you running MBBS v10 R30?

Can you give us some more details about your crash? (see https://www.themajorbbs.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=335)

Yes, I upgraded the BBS first. FU Globals appears to be working OK. Tried reinstalling CONTROL but no luck. With it enabled the board crashes on startup. Disabled and it starts up fine. The link you posted says I don't have access to this area. Do you need me to send the galexep.out to you?

My apologies, the link has been updated, yes, I will need parts of the galexcep.out file (as described in the link).

Thanks

Is this what you need?

THE MAJOR BBS EXCEPTION @ 003686D0 (see "Routines" section below)
Recorded 5/29/2023 8:54:40
BTRIEVE UPDATE ERROR 8 ON FILE "wgsgen2.dat"
AX=0000 BX=751A0000 CX=0000 DX=0000 SI=00000000 DI=0104A3C0
BP=00EFEAE0 SP=00EFEAD4 IP=776439BC Flags=00000206
CS=00000023 SS=0000002B
Current IP==>55 8B EC 81 EC D0 02 00 00 A1 34 44 39 00 33 C5

Adept Online Entertainment (73252353)
Server Version: 10.00
User -1 of 256 status 0

MSG:DIALCTRL.MCV/269
Input ""

Routines:
003686D0 _catastro < 003686D0 < 003687E0 _memcata
003AD71C _catvec < 003AD728 < 003ADB84 _mltflg
751C67AC alsbb < 751C67C0 < 00000000 Unknown

I edited the message to make it shorter but yes this is what I need, thanks.

Is your system an upgrade from WG3.x or a fresh v10 install?

If it was an upgrade, were you previously running control?

If you delete dialctrl.mcv and rename dialctrl.h to dialctrl.zzz and let the system regenerate it, does the error still occur?

It's an upgrade. Over many years we've had 2.0, 3.2 and 3.3 installed. Most recently had downgraded to 3.2. At one time we had CONTROL installed but never were able to get it to work then either.

Tried renaming and deleting the files you recommended but same result. I'll try deleting all CONTROL files and starting over instead of copying over them. Maybe something there from the old install that's getting missed.

Another thought, do you see anything on that report that looks like it could be conflicting with CONTROL?

Yes a full delete of all dialctrl related files and replacement might help.

No, I didn't see anything that might be conflicting.

In the code there is only one place that wgsgen2.dat is referenced and it is not being used at all, so it's odd that you have this issue.

To confirm, you are using the latest files from the ZIP on the website?

What is the SHA1 hash of dialctrl.dll?

Duckula wrote:
> Yes a full delete of all dialctrl related files and replacement might help.
>
> No, I didn't see anything that might be conflicting.
>
> In the code there is only one place that wgsgen2.dat is referenced and it
> is not being used at all, so it's odd that you have this issue.
>
> To confirm, you are using the latest files from the ZIP on the website?
>
> What is the SHA1 hash of dialctrl.dll?

actkey stuff? i found older ported modules from the v6 era that used bbsgen.dat
to sometimes cause issues but only in rare cases. and always from the cheersoft line.
just a thought.

Not sure about the SHA1 hash. Where would I find that? The date of dialctrl.dll is 5/26/2023 and the unzipped file size is 158,720 bytes. That seems likely to be the most recent version.

Tried deleting all CONTROL files and reinstalling. Same result.