Okay, I just upgraded to v271 and tested out emptriv. Practically got tendonitis zipping through about 100-200 questions before I decided that I'm definitely not seeing this one. What else is new?

I don't really know where to go to debug this one. However, I plan to (sometime after my class project is done early next week) port emptriv to the new vfdlib graphics library. That'll give me a chance to look into other stuff too. In the meantime, anyone who's handy with a shell prompt can help me by answering these questions:

1. Can you still get around in the shell when emptriv hangs?
2. If #1 is yes: After this lockup happens, is the emptriv process still running?
3. If you have "wc" (word count) installed on your empeg (usually in /usr/bin) can you run a

"ls -1 | wc -l /usr/local/emptriv/questions"

for me, to count the # of files in the questions directory? (substitute the path of your questions directory)

Otherwise I don't really know how to get to the bottom of this one, short of sending out a massively-instrumented version and pouring through log files. I do enough of that at work.