XFBB Nightmares!

XFBB Nightmares!

[Bill Walton]

Nobody on the XFBB mailing list seemed to be interested in answering my 
questions.
Would anyone here on the linux-hams mailing list care to comment on my 
concerns
listed below?  Have all of you installed XFBB without a single problem? 
 Could I
be living on top of an Indian Burial Ground or something?  I would 
certainly like to
move on to the next set of error codes if someone would be kind enough 
to comment
on my current dilemma.

Thank you in advance for your expert advice and support!

Regards,

Bill KJ6EO

(copy of message sent to xfbb@f6fbb.org mailing list)

Gentlemen -

Thank you for taking the time to read my message.  I have finally 
resolved my AX25 and
Linuxnode problems and I am ready to tackle my final problem XFBB. 
Everyone else
seems to have little or no problems getting XFBB running.  So, I must 
assume that I am
overlooking some menial information that is keeping my XFBB setup from 
working.  The
README file is simple and clear and I have followed the steps:

(FYI) ... I am running RedHat v7.2 with a 2.4.20 kernel.  AX25 and 
Linuxnode installed.

1)    Put tarball in a specific directory
2)    un-tar it
3)    Run the install shell and answer the questions
4)    Edit the appropriate files ... port.sys, init.srv, etc.
5)    Run it ... execute the program shell ... ./xfbb.sh

However ... the result is always the same "Unknown return value 127".  I 
have heard
rumors that XFBB has to be compiled.  There are no instructions with my 
tarball that
says it has to be compiled (x700e_full.tgz).  If I am missing the 
compile step I would
appreciate it if someone would point me in the right direction.  Is it 
possible that I have
the wrong tarball?  I have been stuck with the "unknown return value 
127" error for
ever.  It would be nice to at least move on to the next set of error codes.

Any information that you might be able to offer would be appreciated!

Regards,

Bill KJ6EO

Re: XFBB Nightmares!

[Dennis Boone]

 > However ... the result is always the same "Unknown return value 127".
 > I have heard rumors that XFBB has to be compiled.  There are no
 > instructions with my tarball that says it has to be compiled
 > (x700e_full.tgz).  If I am missing the compile step I would appreciate
 > it if someone would point me in the right direction.  Is it possible
 > that I have the wrong tarball?  I have been stuck with the "unknown
 > return value 127" error for ever.  It would be nice to at least move
 > on to the next set of error codes.

Bill:

Looking at the "fbb" script, there's a loop which restarts fbb if it
exits.  Inside this loop, if one of the commands fails somehow, the
script emits the message you report.  Based on the code in the loop,
the code comes from the shell, and the value of 127 means a command
wasn't found.  It looks to me like the xfbbd command is the one which
isn't found.  I suggest you check the definitions at the top of the
fbb script to make sure they are correct.

Dennis Boone
KB8ZQZ

Re: XFBB Nightmares!

[Shane Deering]

Maybe the xfbb list has been a bit slow lately or I've been kicked off again.

> (FYI) ... I am running RedHat v7.2 with a 2.4.20 kernel.  AX25 and

Running on RH7.2 here too. Using a 2.2 kernel, but shouldn't matter.

> Any information that you might be able to offer would be appreciated!

rpm -ivh xfbb-7.04-2.i386.rpm works for me.

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Re: XFBB Nightmares!

[Dennis Boone]

 > Thank you for answering my message.  My base directory is
 > /usr/src/fbb.  When the shell tries to execute the executable "xfbb",
 > I get this message just before I get the unknown return value 127
 > error:

 > /usr/src/fbb/bin/xfbb:no such file or directory

 > In the above directory I do see the file "xfbb".  If I try to execute
 > it from the directory that it resides in /usr/src/fbb/bin I get a "no
 > such file" error message.  The xfbb file must be linked to something
 > preventing me and the shell from executing it.

Bill:

It sounds like the package you obtained is broken somehow.  The
package file name you mentioned does not seem to be a source package,
and the installation instructions sound like a binary package of some
sort.  My (Debian) package doesn't include a binary called xfbb; I do
have xfbbd and xfbbC.

Given that, and the fact that there are newer versions available, I
wonder if the easiest thing to do might be to grab a different binary
package.  There's an RPM version of 7.04 on the download page at:

    http://www.f6fbb.org/versions.html

The URL for that file directly is:

    ftp://ftp.f6fbb.org/pub/f6fbb/distrib/linux/packages/redhat/xfbb-7.04-2.i386.rpm

If you really want to try to untangle the one you have, or if the RPM
is balky for some reason, we can dig further.

De

Re: XFBB Nightmares!

[Tomi Manninen OH2BNS]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Dennis Boone wrote:

> It sounds like the package you obtained is broken somehow.  The
> package file name you mentioned does not seem to be a source package,
> and the installation instructions sound like a binary package of some
> sort.  My (Debian) package doesn't include a binary called xfbb; I do
> have xfbbd and xfbbC.

It's probably not broken. It's just so old that the binary is linked
against a very old version of libc (libc5). Not having this lib installed
causes a somewhat misleading error message when one tries to execute the
binary. Some of the modern distributions might still have a compatibility
package for libc5 but it's probably not installed by default.

Anyway, I would recommend installing a newer version of xfbb. There are
binary packages available as people have already pointed out.

This is becoming a FAQ. I think Jean-Paul should do himself a favor and
remove the old binary packages from his web site... :)

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