Perlmonks chat problem

Back on 9/16, I installed on Win2k the Tk version of shendal's perlmonks chat and was able to get it to work. I'm not sure what happened, but a few days ago up till the present, every time I do an Update->Username&Password and authenticate, instead of authenticating as slojuggler, this is what happens:

1)I get the following message "Logged in as Anonymous Monk"

2)the Userlist blanks out

3)I repeatedly get the message "ERROR: Ack! Noone's logged in!"

Also, I don't recall if this has been doing it since day 1, but I notice in the "cmd" window that I ran the command line from the following message:

Could not find in at

F:/Perl/site/lib/PerlMonks/NewestNodes.pm line 680

However, the above path does exist.

I don't recall installing anything goofy, and I've rebooted my machine.

Any ideas on this weirdness? Many thanks in advance.

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Re: Perlmonks chat problem by CubicSpline (Friar) on Sep 26, 2001 at 16:26 UTC
I've had the same problems running this chatterbox client on my NT box, but no problem whatsoever on my 98 box. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to try and figure it out, but it seems odd to me that the error message has blanks where it should have a variable or class name ( 'Could not find ___ in ____ ...'). perhaps this is a known issue to the author...	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks chat problem by idnopheq (Chaplain) on Sep 26, 2001 at 16:42 UTC
I see the same thing occasionally on my W2K, Solaris 8, and FreeBSD boxen. I think the problem is with the cookie and connectivty. I haven't had the time to really look into it. To me it's a minor inconvenience. I never have to reboot ... simply kill the client and any subsequent DOS window and restart it. I emailed zzamboni about this, as it seems more to do with the PerlMonk modules versus the chatterbx ( I've seen similar stuff from other PM clients based off of these modules as well ). HTH -- idnopheq Apply yourself to new problems without preparation, develop confidence in your ability to to meet situations as they arrise. ~ Shunryu Suzuki	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks chat problem by slojuggler (Beadle) on Sep 27, 2001 at 10:30 UTC
Thanks cubicspline and idnopheq. Unfortunately, for me, simply killing the client and restarting the DOS window doesn't help. chatbox.pl still gives the error. I downloaded the Win32 flavor of shendal's chat app and still get similar results.	[reply]