filePro 5.8 bombing

[Bill Campbell]

Can you look at the hung process with strace, dtrace, or lsof to
see what's going on?

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
>After the fire I had in May, jpr.com was created as a virtual machine on
>a VMware host in the facilities of Paul McNary in Missouri.
>
>I now have a new server (SuperMicro 5028D-TN4T) running OpenServer 6.0.0
>Definitive.  All is fine except filePro.  I have no problems running
>version 4.5 of filePro, but not the current 5.8.  If I hit 'p', or
>directly call 'runmenu' or 'dclerk', I immediately get a blank screen
>with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner.  I cannot get out of
>that screen, no key does anything.  I have to kill the session from
>another login.
>
>I had rsync'd fP 5.8 from the Missouri machine; now I thought a
>reinstall from scratch might be in order.  But that craps out in the
>same way when the first binary (not shell script) is called: blank
>screen, can't delete or escape back to a shell prompt.
>
>
>-- 
>JP
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