Re: Bug: Getting dice from random.org for the second time

[Peter Lederer]

Hello,

my Linux Mint is a German version. Thus GNUBG is German as well
("Voreingestellt").

I cannot change the language setting to another language. It says
"Locale 'en_US' not supported by C library."





2020-08-12 10:54 GMT+02:00, Øystein Schønning-Johansen <oysteijo@gmail.com>:
> I've not tested, but could this be a problem at random.org? Maybe we should
> start using their new JSON-RPC based API?
> -Øystein
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Peter Lederer <plederer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Philippe,
>>
>> it happens consistently. Every time.
>>
>> My internet connection is flawless.
>>
>> If I restart GNUBG it fetches the next (first for the next match) 500
>> numbers without any problem.
>>
>> I have no idea what to change.
>>
>> Greets
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2020-08-11 22:21 GMT+02:00, Philippe Michel <philippe.michel7@free.fr>:
>> > On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:40:24PM +0200, Peter Lederer wrote:
>> >
>> >> I use GNU Backgammon 1.06.001 Feb 28 2018 on Linux Mint 19.3 as it
>> >> comes from the distribution repository.
>> >>
>> >> As dice generator I use random.org. The fetching of the first 500 dice
>> >> works fine. When required to receive the second portion of dice it
>> >> says "Your dice generator isn't working. Failing back on
>> >> RNG_MERSENNE". At the same time the dice settings jump back to
>> >> "Mersenne Twister" and stay there.
>> >
>> > The most likely cause is that gnubg couldn't contact random.org when it
>> > tried to pull the second batch of dice.
>> >
>> > Does it happen consistently ? If not, does your machine have internet
>> > access when it does ?
>> >
>> > FWIW, I couldn't reproduce the problem with the current gnubg version
>> > (and not on linux Mint ; the random.org related code hasn't changed
>> > since 1.06.001, but the system library used to establish connections is
>> > almost certainly at a different version).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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