Tossing this out in the event someone recognizes something and can point me in a direction to debug/correct the issue I am having.

Wanting to move the BBS from physical hardware to a virtual. am using VMware ESXi 6.7. I was able to convert the physical to virtual disk, can boot the disk, other applications I was running, MySQL and Apache seem to not be affected by the new virtual hardware setup. But sbbs seems to be, I keep getting illegal instruction when trying to startup the bbs services.

Thining something may have been compiled to physical CPU capabilities that didn't work on the virtual CPU, I just finishing clearing source directories and re-compiling sbbs on the virtual setup. I did not pull new source code in,
just re-compiled what was present, everything compiled without errors. I still
get the illegal instruction when sbbs tries to startup.

The 'old' physical CPU and memory:
CPU
Number 2
Model Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220T @ 2.60GHz
Frequency 2348.541 MHz
Cache L2 3072 KB
Bogomips 5188.43

Memory
RAM 7162 Mb free of 7868 Mb
OS Linux Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (focal)
Kernel 5.4.0-42-generic

The 'new' virtual CPU and memory:
CPU
Number 2
Model Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz
Frequency 3458.000 MHz
Cache L2 12288 KB
Bogomips 6916.00

Memory
RAM 1407 Mb free of 1986 Mb
OS Linux Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (focal)
Kernel 5.4.0-42-generic

When I attempt to start sbbs, this is the console output:

root@bbs:~# sbbs

Synchronet Console for Linux Version 3.18a Copyright 2020 Rob Swindell

Reading /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini
Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl/
Current usr ids: ruid - 0, euid - 1000, suid - 1000
Current grp ids: rgid - 0, egid - 1000, sgid - 1000
The process 1840 was given capabilities =p
Setting initial privileges
Successfully changed user-id to sbbs
Setting minimum privileges
Current usr ids: ruid - 1000, euid - 1000, suid - 1000
Current grp ids: rgid - 1000, egid - 1000, sgid - 1000
The process 1840 was given capabilities = cap_net_bind_service,cap_sys_resource+ep
Waiting for child threads to bind ports...
8/16 13:21:31 stat Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
8/16 13:21:31 term Synchronet Terminal Server Version 3.18 Revision A
8/16 13:21:31 term Compiled Aug 16 2020 12:57:02 with GCC 9.3.0
8/16 13:21:31 term Initializing on Sun Aug 16 13:21:31 2020 with options: 90001022
8/16 13:21:31 term Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl/
8/16 13:21:31 stat Listening on /sbbs/ctrl/status.sock
8/16 13:21:31 mail Synchronet Mail Server Revision 1.728
8/16 13:21:31 mail Compiled Aug 16 2020 12:57:32 with GCC 9.3.0
8/16 13:21:31 mail Initializing on Sun Aug 16 13:21:31 2020 with options: 851c8204
8/16 13:21:31 mail Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl/
8/16 13:21:31 srvc Synchronet Services Revision 1.334
8/16 13:21:31 srvc Compiled Aug 16 2020 12:57:35 with GCC 9.3.0
8/16 13:21:31 srvc Initializing on Sun Aug 16 13:21:31 2020 with options: 80000800
8/16 13:21:31 srvc Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl/
8/16 13:21:31 ftp Synchronet FTP Server Revision 1.498
8/16 13:21:31 ftp Compiled Aug 16 2020 12:57:29 with GCC 9.3.0
8/16 13:21:31 ftp Initializing on Sun Aug 16 13:21:31 2020 with options: 354 8/16 13:21:31 ftp Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl/
8/16 13:21:31 srvc Ignoring disabled service: QOTD
8/16 13:21:31 srvc Ignoring disabled service: QOTD-UDP
8/16 13:21:31 srvc NNTP listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 119
8/16 13:21:31 srvc NNTP listening on socket :: port 119
8/16 13:21:31 web Synchronet Web Server Revision 1.715
8/16 13:21:31 web Compiled Aug 16 2020 12:58:14 with GCC 9.3.0
8/16 13:21:31 web Initializing on Sun Aug 16 13:21:31 2020 with options: 800008c0
8/16 13:21:31 web Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl/
8/16 13:21:31 mail SMTP Transfer Agent listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 25
8/16 13:21:31 mail SMTP Transfer Agent listening on socket :: port 25
8/16 13:21:31 ftp FTP Server listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 21
8/16 13:21:31 term Verifying/creating data directories
8/16 13:21:31 ftp FTP Server listening on socket :: port 21
8/16 13:21:31 ftp 0008 !ERROR 98 (Address already in use) binding FTP Server socket
8/16 13:21:31 ftp 0008 Will retry in 15 seconds (1 of 2)
8/16 13:21:31 mail 0009 !ERROR 98 (Address already in use) binding SMTP Transfer Agent socket
8/16 13:21:31 mail 0009 Will retry in 15 seconds (1 of 2)
8/16 13:21:31 srvc 0010 !ERROR 98 (Address already in use) binding NNTP socket 8/16 13:21:31 srvc 0010 Will retry in 15 seconds (1 of 2)
Illegal instruction


Anyone run into something similar and have ideas what to do next?
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Re: virtual, illegal instr
By: Hemo to All on Sun Aug 16 2020 01:29 pm

Tossing this out in the event someone recognizes something and can point me in a direction to debug/correct the issue I am having.

not be affected by the new virtual hardware setup. But sbbs seems to be, I keep getting illegal instruction when trying to startup the bbs services.

didn't work on the virtual CPU, I just finishing clearing source directories and re-compiling sbbs on the virtual setup. I did not pull

Illegal instruction

Are you sure you compiled clean?

I've had that before, on x86_64 platforms thinking that compiled on 1 server should work on the other. Turned out there must have been CPU differences - so a "clean" compile resolved it for me.

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Re: virtual, illegal instr
By: alterego to Hemo on Mon Aug
17 2020 02:31 pm

Re: virtual, illegal instr
By: Hemo to All on Sun Aug 16 2020 01:29 pm

to be, I keep getting illegal instruction when trying to startup the

Are you sure you compiled clean?

yes, no doubt the compile is clean. typical warning messages but no errors.

Later today I'm going to kill off all the source directories on the VM and pull in fresh from CVS and try that.

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Re: virtual, illegal instr
By: Hemo to alterego on Mon Aug
17 2020 11:11 am

Are you sure you compiled clean?

yes, no doubt the compile is clean. typical warning messages but no errors.

new compiles again tonight, no errors during the compile, still seeing illegal instruction message to sbbs console.

found these in syslog and kern.log:

syslog <==

Aug 17 20:49:14 bbs kernel: [ 202.597545] traps: sbbs/webServer[1272] trap invalid opcode ip:7f9b9ced6039 sp:7f9b993427e0 error:0 in libsbbs.so[7f9b9ca6e000+525000]

kern.log <==

Aug 17 20:49:14 bbs kernel: [ 202.597545] traps: sbbs/webServer[1272] trap invalid opcode ip:7f9b9ced6039 sp:7f9b993427e0 error:0 in libsbbs.so[7f9b9ca6e000+525000]

Weird. so i try starting without the Web Server and I have no 'illegal instruction' for a long time, and then finally:

Aug 17 20:59:20 bbs kernel: [ 808.068172] traps: sbbs/termServer[1316] trap invalid opcode ip:7f0e48e43039 sp:7f0e472b4f40 error:0 in libsbbs.so[7f0e489db000+525000]


For now I guess I keep things running on the physical hardware. Not sure what gives that it will compile fine in the virtual env but throw these errors when trying to run.

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