... I recently removed my fsx_dat* files because ibbs last callers was complaining, but after doing so - and fixing ilc - ibol is crapping out. I don't remember seeing this one, but I'm sure 'we' have;

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PYTHON ERROR (/home/pi/mystic/themes/default/scripts/ibol.mpy)
File "ibol.mpy", line 204, in <module> main_menu()
File "ibol.mpy", line 188, in main_menu get_data()
File "ibol.mpy", line 100, in get_data
tstr="|12"+thisauthor.ljust(left_side)+"|08:|15 " UnboundLocalError: local variable 'thisauthor' referenced before assignment -----
Anyone know the fix off hand?? Thanks if so - I always create a .txt in /mystic with the fixes so I'll have the info for next time...



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Re: ibol.mpy failure - anyone seen it?
By: paulie420 to All on Wed Mar 05 2025 11:23 am

PYTHON ERROR (/home/pi/mystic/themes/default/scripts/ibol.mpy) File "ibol.mpy", line 204, in <module> main_menu() File "ibol.mpy", line 188, in main_menu get_data() File "ibol.mpy", line 100, in get_data tstr=""+thisauthor.ljust(left_side)+": " UnboundLocalError: local variable 'thisauthor' referenced before assignment -----

I had this problem too with the Synchronet version of IBOL.

There was an IBOL post earlier in the week with the "Author" field missing, and had "-e Auther" in its place. I'm GUESSING that's the same problem you've run into.

If you find the offending message in your FSX_DAT echo and delete it, the script should work again. But really, the IBOL scripts should handle that kind of situation better (I'm testing a fix for the Sync version here).

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PYTHON ERROR (/home/pi/mystic/themes/default/scripts/ibol.mpy) File "ibol.mpy", line 204, in <module> main_menu() File "ibol.mpy", line 1 in main_menu get_data() File "ibol.mpy", line 100, in get_data tstr=""+thisauthor.ljust(left_side)+": " UnboundLocalError: local var 'thisauthor' referenced before assignment -----

I had this problem too with the Synchronet version of IBOL.

There was an IBOL post earlier in the week with the "Author" field missing, and had "-e Auther" in its place. I'm GUESSING that's the same problem you've run into.

If you find the offending message in your FSX_DAT echo and delete it, the script should work again. But really, the IBOL scripts should handle
that kind of situation better (I'm testing a fix for the Sync version here).

Interesting - OR, it should iron itself out after the message moves off the IBOL main page... but yea, thats not a fix. And, might break if users View All.

Ok - lemme go try to find that post in FSX_DAT. UGH. :P Thanks for the tip - sounds like maybe LOTS of BBSes ibol is broken this week, then?



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Interesting - OR, it should iron
itself out after the message moves
off the IBOL main page... but yea,
thats not a fix. And, might break
if users View All.

From what I see on my end, Quantum Wormhold is missing the bbs address field some times. Perhaps that's blowing it up?

It's a pretty active BBS so if the script isn't fixed, it will probably keep blowing up when a record gets posted.

Anyway to just throw a simple try/catch around the thing and skip any messages that fail to parse? (I'm not really familiar with the actual script.. sorry).



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