Well, to make things clear: timestamp is not part of the XBoard project, but
propriatry closed-source software developed by ICC. The idea behind it is that
it encrypts the communication between client and server in a secret way that
cannot be reproduced by a non-trusted party in order to tamper with the time
stamps. I am not aware of the encryption algorithm having been broken. (As it
is for 'timeseal' used by FICS.) If ICC supplies a version that doesn't work
under all Linux systems, one must turn to ICC for having it fixed.
Some of what you report seems strange, though. Timestamp should be a simple
command-line application, and has no business using GTK. It is not clear which
executable acually was responsible for the canberra-gtk-moule error message,
but I don't think XBoard would need that, as I never heard of it.
In principle timestamp is a telnet-like application, which you should be able
to run from the command line (through he command "./timestamp chessclub.com
5000" ?). After which you should be able to communicate with ICC through it,
typing commands and getting the ICS responses displayed in your terminal. If
you try that, does it also give this error message?
Op do., apr. 22, 2021 om 03:00, Kayven Riese schreef:
Here is my command line for my computer:
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ uname -a
Linux kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT 5.8.0-50-generic #56~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP
Mon Apr 12 21:46:35 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ ldd timestamp
linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7fb6000)
libc.so.5 => not found
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$
(above timestamp was the 2.0.30 version (renamed to simply timestamp).. later I
tried 2.6.8 with more interesting but still failing results.. fail to connect)
I can connect to ICC with my xboard it runs better than web interfaces but I
can’t figure out how to use timestamp. I am not sure which version from this
webpage is the correct one:
https://download.chessclub.com.s3.amazonaws.com/timestamp/index.html
(https://www.chessclub.com/?URL=https%3A%2F%2Fdownload.chessclub.com.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ftimestamp%2Findex.html)
I believe the file I used is the first one right now linux 2.0.30 (I renamed
it to simply timestamp) but I have also tried linux 2.6.8
well I tried this advice:
http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?t=27107=10
(https://www.chessclub.com/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkchess.com%2Fforum3%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D27107%26start%3D10)
when I tried installing ia32-libs it said lib32z1 was a replacement so I
installed that and now this is what is happening:
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ ls
example lantern timestamp timestamp_linux_2.6.8
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ rm timestamp
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ mv timestamp_linux_2.6.8
timestamp
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ xboard -ics -icshost
chessclub.com (http://chessclub.com) -icshelper timestamp
Gtk-Message: 15:50:12.750: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ sudo apt install
canberra-gtk-module
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package canberra-gtk-module
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ ./timestamp 207.99.83.228 5000
timestamp: Connection timed out
timestamp: can’t connect to server
Can someone help me make my xboard work with timestamp? Please don’t tell me
to use the web interface lag is everything in internet play I can’t have that
awful lag.
Here is more of a dump of what I have done:
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ file timestamp
timestamp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.1, not stripped
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb
(http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb) stable InRelease
buntu.com/ubuntu (http://buntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports InRelease [101 kB]
[::deleted stuff::]
Err:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ffmulticonverter/stable/ubuntu
(http://ppa.launchpad.net/ffmulticonverter/stable/ubuntu) focal Release
404 Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8008::19 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ffmulticonverter/stable/ubuntu
(http://ppa.launchpad.net/ffmulticonverter/stable/ubuntu) focal Release' does
not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore
disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
details.
kayve@kayve-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~/chess$ sudo apt-get install
libncurses5
