Cumulus crashed this morning when downloading data

[sjukmidlands]

Self explanatory from the title, elf file attached.

Steve

[steve]

Thanks - this is the same problem that was reported to me by private message (so you wouldn't have known about it). I have a fix and will hopefully be uploading a new build later today. Except that I am experiencing severe broadband problems...

[sjukmidlands]

Thanks - this is the same problem that was reported to me by private message (so you wouldn't have known about it). I have a fix and will hopefully be uploading a new build later today. Except that I am experiencing severe broadband problems...

Hi Steve - Good Luck! You certainly don't want severe broadband problems! I'm on Virgin Media Cable 50MBit - and get that too usually, although very occasionally it loses connection and the modem has to be reset - usually when I'm in Wales!

Good Luck again....

Steve

[steve]

Hi Steve - Good Luck! You certainly don't want severe broadband problems!

There's been a widespread BT problem since Friday affecting large parts of northern UK, then on top of that we had a lightning strike on the communications mast on the island on Tuesday which knocked out everything completely for a while. Things are back up now, but broadband is virtually unusable.

[sjukmidlands]

Hi Steve - Good Luck! You certainly don't want severe broadband problems!

There's been a widespread BT problem since Friday affecting large parts of northern UK, then on top of that we had a lightning strike on the communications mast on the island on Tuesday which knocked out everything completely for a while. Things are back up now, but broadband is virtually unusable.

I heard about the BT problem. Pity about the lightning strike, bet it fried a fair few pieces of equipment somewhere. We had a thunderstorm once many years ago when I worked at the BBC and when I got home my modem was fried. Fortunately the PC was OK...

Whatever, there's not a lot you can do until they fix it so sit back and relax for a bit or go for a walk ('though its a bit bracing here in Staffs...)

Steve

[sjukmidlands]

Hi Steve,

I hope you're getting your broadband issues sorted! must be frustrating!

Anyway, whilst we await your ability to upload the next build to fix this issue, is there anything I can do now to run an earlier build so that I can at least download the data from the station before it starts to overwrite itself and then update again when its available? I tried yesterday to install an earlier build over this one but it still crashed at the same point.

Best wishes from Staffordshire!
Steve

[steve]

I hope you're getting your broadband issues sorted! must be frustrating!

I've just got back from the ferry (been shopping) and it looks like they've fixed the broadband. I'll upload the new build as soon as I can.

[sjukmidlands]

Excellent on both counts! Glad you've got your broadband back - I know how frustrated I get when it goes down for any time here (which is rare)!

Nice that you have to take a ferry to go shopping, very nice!

Steve

[steve]

Seems I spoke to soon; the problem is still ongoing.

I'm afraid an older beta won't help, the same bug is there in all versions. It happens when an all-time record is broken at start up. You could tweak your records (by editing alltime.ini) so they don't get broken, but that's not much of a solution, sorry. The fact that the all-time record editor is also broken (it doesn't save the changes) doesn't make things any easier (you could otherwise have set them back again once it was running).

[sjukmidlands]

Seems I spoke to soon; the problem is still ongoing.

I'm afraid an older beta won't help, the same bug is there in all versions. It happens when an all-time record is broken at start up. You could tweak your records (by editing alltime.ini) so they don't get broken, but that's not much of a solution, sorry. The fact that the all-time record editor is also broken (it doesn't save the changes) doesn't make things any easier (you could otherwise have set them back again once it was running).

That's OK Steve, thanks for letting me know anyway, and it must be very frustrating for you! And thanks for explaining what the problem is. I'll just wait for your broadband to be fixed, whenever that is.

Best wishes
Steve

[steve]

I've manage to upload the new build now, hopefully it will fix your problem.

[sjukmidlands]

Indeed you have and yes it did! Brilliant on all counts! Do I presume you're broadband issues are fixed or improving?

Thank you very much once again,
Steve

[steve]

Indeed you have and yes it did! Brilliant on all counts! Do I presume you're broadband issues are fixed or improving?

Not fixed but much improved.

[sjukmidlands]

That's a good start at least, hopefully it will be fully fixed sometime soon. What sort of connection speeds do you normally get there?
Steve

[steve]

That's a good start at least, hopefully it will be fully fixed sometime soon. What sort of connection speeds do you normally get there?

We're not far from the exchange, so we get very good download speeds, around 7 Mbit/s. Upload speed is normally around 450 Kbit/s; it's currently less than a quarter of that, but at least it's working OK at that speed at the moment.