Well, here's where we're getting...

int loadConfig () {

  int fdConfigIni;

  int iBytesRead = -1;

  char szConfigIni[ 8193 ];	

  char *pszSection;

  char *pszTemp;

  char *pszEnd;

  char szActive[8];

  int errorflag = 0;

  int iLen;



	fprintf(stderr, "opening config file...\n");

	fdConfigIni = open( "/empeg/var/config.ini", O_RDONLY );

	fprintf(stderr, "fd: %d\n", fdConfigIni);		

	if (fdConfigIni != -1) {

		iBytesRead =  read( fdConfigIni, szConfigIni, 8193 );

		fprintf(stderr, "bytes read: %d\n", iBytesRead);

		szConfigIni[iBytesRead] = '\0';

		close (fdConfigIni);

		pszSection = strstr(szConfigIni, "[empwake]");

		if ( pszSection != NULL) {

			pszTemp = strstr(pszSection, "\n[");

			*pszTemp = '\0';



			pszTemp = strstr(pszSection, "\nfid=");

			if ( pszTemp != NULL) {

				pszTemp +=5;

				pszEnd = strchr(pszTemp, '\n');

				iLen = pszEnd - pszTemp;

				strncpy(szFid, pszTemp, iLen);

				printf("fid: %s\n", szFid);

			} else {

				printf("EmpWake warning: fid not specified in config.ini.  Using the currently selected playlist for alarm.\n");

				strncpy(szFid, "\01", sizeof(szFid) );

			}

			pszTemp = strstr(pszSection, "\nactive=");

			if ( pszTemp != NULL) {

				pszTemp +=8;

				pszEnd = strchr(pszTemp, '\n');

				iLen = pszEnd - pszTemp;

				strncpy(szActive, pszTemp, iLen);

				if ( strcasecmp(szActive, "true") == 0 ) {

					g_iAlarmEnabled = 1;

				} else {

					g_iAlarmEnabled = 0;

				}

			} else {

				printf("empwake: parse error line %d\n", __LINE__);			

				g_iAlarmEnabled = 0;

			}

			pszTemp = strstr(pszSection, "\ntime=");

			if ( pszTemp != NULL) {

				pszTemp +=6;

				pszEnd = strchr(pszTemp, '\n');

				iLen = pszEnd - pszTemp;

				strncpy(szAlarmTime, pszTemp, iLen);

				printf("time: %s\n", szAlarmTime);

				pszTemp = szAlarmTime;

				pszEnd = strchr(szAlarmTime, ':');

				if ( pszEnd != NULL) {

					*pszEnd = '\0';

					stcAlarmTime.tm_hour = atoi(pszTemp);

				} else {

					printf("empwake: parse error line %d\n", __LINE__);

				}

				pszTemp = pszEnd + 1;

				pszEnd = strchr(pszTemp, ':');

				if ( pszEnd != NULL) {

					*pszEnd = '\0';

					stcAlarmTime.tm_min = atoi(pszTemp);

				} else {

					printf("empwake: parse error line %d\n", __LINE__);

				}

				pszTemp = pszEnd + 1;

				stcAlarmTime.tm_sec = atoi(pszTemp);

			} else {

				printf("empwake: parse error line %d\n", __LINE__);			

				stcAlarmTime.tm_sec = stcAlarmTime.tm_min = stcAlarmTime.tm_hour = 0;

			}

		}

		else {

			printf("empwake: parse error line %d\n", __LINE__);

		}



	} else {

		printf("empwake: could not read config.ini: errno %d\n", errno);

	}

	fprintf(stderr, "-loadConfig()\n");	

	return 0;

}

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I pretty much have debug statements *everywhere* that should be showing up somewhere. I looked for fall-through cases but I'm really confused as to why there's no other output happening somewhere. If it fails to parse the config.ini, it should be complaining somewhere...