Oolite Bulletins

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:40 pm

We know the old domain was used to distribute malware.

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:54 pm

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:28 pm

Were the prospective commander to persist, and manage to launch it from a terminal they'd of course get the vital, searchable clue which can be copy/pasted into a web search:

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$ GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite
./oolite.app/oolite: error while loading shared libraries: libgnustep-base.so.1.28: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Erk. It looks like Oolite died with an error. When making an error report, please copy + paste the log above into the report.

Rather than the opaque "exit code 127", perhaps a more helpful human readable code in the popup like:-

error while loading shared libraries: libgnustep-base.so.1.28: cannot open shared object file.
Please see http://$wiki/$article for a proper clue.

I didn't dive into the source to check, perhaps 127 covers a range of ills, but since the terminal output is informative, I'd hope the popup could be specific too. If a wiki page describes this issue, then the console message should also mention it.

Could the console messages be mirrored in the popup?

First, code 127 can mean a plethora of reasons. Basically it means the executable you tried to launch could not be launched. Not having the correct version of libgnustep is one of them. Not having another shared lib would also yield 127, and having an arm64 binary on an x86 platform would likely yield the same.
So it is required to look at stdout/stderr.

Then look at the process structure:
There is the oolite executable, run by a wrapper to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which again is run by a wrapper to display error on failure. When wiretapping stdout/stderr we need to grab the content while not blocking it from other users to be able to forward it into the UI. The UI is capable of more.

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:08 pm

I apologise for the clear sky thinking on my part. You know that I am an advocate of wrapper scripts, and how I like to use them to simplify cross platform issues. Of course I can grok how it might be tricky to tee stdout/err via the app.

Maybe the catch-all error 127 in the GUI should point to a catch-all wiki page of hints.

I'll get back in my box

another_commander wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:01 pm

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:40 pm

We know the old domain was used to distribute malware.

I do have to ask: where do we know that from? Is there any kind of proof? I very highly doubt it. IMO, that statement is urban legend.

Cody wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:15 pm

another_commander wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:01 pm

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:40 pm

We know the old domain was used to distribute malware.

I do have to ask: where do we know that from? Is there any kind of proof? I very highly doubt it. IMO, that statement is urban legend.

I tend to agree... urban legend!

Cody wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:18 pm

@spara: if you want your alt deleted, just say the word and someone will oblige.

spara wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 4:54 pm

So any idea what I should be looking at that has changed Linux-wise/Expansion manager-wise between those versions?

hiran wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 5:56 pm

spara wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 4:54 pm

So any idea what I should be looking at that has changed Linux-wise/Expansion manager-wise between those versions?

Versions up to and including 1.90 were built by some powerful wizard that is no longer amongst us.

Versions 1.91 are built on Github directly upon each modification - you could say the same recipy interpreted in a different kitchen. Linux 1.91 versions are built on Ubuntu 22. That is based on Debian 12.
https://askubuntu.com/a/445496

The first thing I'd look at would be the executable and the shared libs that get loaded. Just cannot recall the command to be used for that...

strace GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite 2>&1 | tee /tmp/crazylog

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:26 pm

Something like

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strace GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite 2>&1 | tee /tmp/crazylog

..might do the trick though you may need to use the strace in that wrapper script, or the one it subsequently calls.