Hello all, its been a minute. So I've finally had some time to try to get the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to restore the old BBS. I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16. Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to retire, so I left it sit for a bit. So I'm back... I am attempting to upgrade it. I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster NAS. I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of course. I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested. Then updated SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19. At this point, I believe everything is working. I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working. So I think I got all that working. So that is where I am at the moment. I did a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to 3.20. It failed... Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset everything to an initial install. So I restored back to the 3.19. I'm having a strange error that I didn't notice before. If I try to make a change, or shut down the BBS I'm getting: Failure writing Initalization file: c:\sbbs\ctrl\sbbs.ini. I'm done some searching in the docs and the Wiki, but am not having any luck finding this issue. I'm thinking that this may be the reason the system reverted to an initial install. Any thoughts? My apologies, If you all remember me, I'm rather long winded. :) hahaha!
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Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Sniper to All on Fri Sep 12 2025 11:24 pm

Hello all, its been a minute.

Welcome back!

So I've finally had some time to try to get
the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to restore the old BBS. I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16. Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to retire, so I left it sit for a bit. So I'm back... I am attempting to upgrade it. I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster NAS. I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of course. I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested. Then updated SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19. At this point, I believe everything is working. I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working. So I think I got all that working. So that is where I am at the moment. I did a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to 3.20. It failed... Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset everything to an initial install.

Sounds like you didn't run 'jsexec update'. The upgrade archive contains instructions (README.TXT).
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Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Digital Man to Sniper on Sat Sep 13 2025 02:48 pm

Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Sniper to All on Fri Sep 12 2025 11:24 pm

Hello all, its been a minute.

Welcome back!

So I've finally had some time to try to get
the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to restore the old BBS. I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16. Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to retire, so I left it sit for a bit. So I'm back... I am attempting to upgrade it. I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster NAS. I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of course. I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested. Then updat SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19. At this point, I believe everything is working. I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working. I think I got all that working. So that is where I am at the moment. I a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to 3.20. It failed... Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset everything to an initial install.

Sounds like you didn't run 'jsexec update'. The upgrade archive contains instructions (README.TXT).

Ok, I will rerun it. To expand. I attempted this multiple times, initially, I tried to do the upgrade directly to 3.20 directly as was noted in the documentation. That failed badly, wouldn't load after the upgrade, and yes, I ran the jsexec update. So on the next attempt, I decided to do each update indivudually, 17, 18, 19 and 20. After 3.20 upgrade, and doing the jsexec update, the system reverted to new install. I verified each upgrade, 17, system was working, doors weren't. Next 18, after the update, the system worked, not the doors, and 19 worked, and the doors worked. When I did 3.20, the system was destroyed, and was walking me through the initial install, as I stated. Currently, I did the individual upgrades again, and stopped this time at 3.19, which is what I'm currently running. However I'm getting the error mentioned, not finding the sbbs.ini. So I will attempt a rerun of the jsexec update, and see if that fixes it. I'll let you know in a few. :)


Sniper

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Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Digital Man to Sniper on Sat Sep 13 2025 02:48 pm

Hi, The jsexec update was rerun, and it completed, however no change. When I close out synchronet, it still gives me that error, that it can't write the sbbs.ini. I'll go re-read the docs, see if I missed a step... Something between 3.18 and 3.19.


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Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Sniper to Digital Man on Sun Sep 14 2025 09:22 am

Ok, I will rerun it. To expand. I attempted this multiple times, initially, I tried to do the upgrade directly to 3.20 directly as was noted in the documentation. That failed badly, wouldn't load after the upgrade, and yes, I ran the jsexec update. So on the next attempt, I decided to do each update indivudually, 17, 18, 19 and 20. After 3.20 upgrade, and doing the jsexec update, the system reverted to new install. I verified each upgrade, 17, system was working, doors weren't. Next 18, after the update, the system worked, not the doors, and 19 worked, and the doors worked. When I did 3.20, the system was destroyed, and was walking me through the initial install, as I stated.

The old (v3.19) *.cnf files are still there. Nothing was "destroyed". If you ran v3.20 withOUT running 'jsexec update' first (e.g. as an accident), you could have stock/new install .ini files ni your ctrl directory. In that case, running 'jsexec upgrade_to_v320' would fix that situation.

Currently, I did the individual upgrades again, and
stopped this time at 3.19, which is what I'm currently running. However I'm getting the error mentioned, not finding the sbbs.ini. So I will attempt a rerun of the jsexec update, and see if that fixes it. I'll let you know in a few. :)

"error finding sbbs.ini" doesn't sound like an upgrade issue. That sounds like your SBBSCTRL environment variable isn't set correctly.
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Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Sniper to Digital Man on Sun Sep 14 2025 09:29 am

Re: KIA BBS issues
By: Digital Man to Sniper on Sat Sep 13 2025 02:48 pm

Hi, The jsexec update was rerun, and it completed, however no change.
When I close out synchronet, it still gives me that error, that it can't write the sbbs.ini. I'll go re-read the docs, see if I missed a step... Something between 3.18 and 3.19.

Check permissions on the file.
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