ChatTheatre
BUG: too small string size
May 4 17:15:55 ** error:String too long [caught] error: /usr/System/sys/tool/vault error: 732 - work error: 202 - spawn_object_from_state error:1115 /kernel/lib/auto read_file May 4 17:15:55 ** Error spawning Bodies:UrMainbody May 4 17:15:56 ** error:String too long [caught] error: /usr/System/sys/tool/vault error: 732 - work error: 202 - spawn_object_from_state error:1115 /kernel/lib/auto read_file May 4 17:15:56 ** Error spawning Data:DB:mhelp May 4 17:15:56 ** error:String too long [caught] error: /usr/System/sys/tool/vault error: 732 - work error: 202 - spawn_object_from_state error:1115 /kernel/lib/auto read_file
I'm almost certain this is due to failure to use a sufficiently large maximum string size in the DGD binary.
Suggested solution is a subroutine invoked by INITD->create() that will abort the startup process if certain configuration or status() values fail a sanity check.
I suggest checking max array size and max string size for starters.
I can come up with a patch for this myself if needed but atm the priority is to report the issue. I have higher priorities to deal with irl atm so for now a report will have to suffice until I can get more free time unless someone else wants to take care of this first.
That all makes sense. Were you using a DGD that was built in non-SkotOS configuration (since SkotOS needs a bigger-than-default string size), or did mHelp and/or Mainbody wind up needing more space with something you had changed?
Your solution seems reasonable regardless, I'm just trying to figure out when the problem happens so I can prioritise it :-)
I don't know, and my opinion 8s that 2hat matters more is when the setting can be detected
Imo tripping a sanity check early in the startup process is more productive than wasting effort on a bootup that a preventable error may well have contaminated
I'll come up with a patch, give me 48 hours
If you want to beat me to it, either check the stderr during cold boot out of the box with 16 bit ssize or focus on INITD::create()