crashes

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:55 pm

I noticed theres been a few crashes but thanks to my crash recovery script the server goes up right away. But I'd like that if ever the server crashes and you're playing that you'd post here exactly what you were doing before the crash, and what you were about to do. This will help me try to pin point the cause of crashes. If you're afk this does not count, unless you were macrowing, just describe what the macro does though if its just a loop I can't see a macro causing a crash.

Note that no one is ever held responsible for a crash, so if you caused a crash and know it, you will not be penalized, in fact its more the other way around, you may be rewarded. If I know what causes a crash, I can then fix it.

I'm posting this since it seems the server has crashed twice in the past month relating to talismans, but I don't have more info then that.

The latest one involves slayers, talismans and magic arrow, I'll play around with those 3 things and see if I can cause it locally and fix the bug.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:21 pm

today at 3:20, I was casting wither when it crashed. I was doing coon, pretty ordinary thing for me, I wasn't doing anything special. There was a lot of gold and ps on the dungeon floor.

If anyone wants to come pick them up, you are welcome to them. That is if they are still there when the server reboots.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:39 pm

Yeah don't even think wither is affected by slayers. I think the issue actually has to do with magic arrow but the log is very vague, this is it right here:

Code: Select all

Exception:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Server.Items.SlayerGroup.OppositionSuperSlays(Mobile m)
   at Server.Spells.Spell.GetSlayerDamageScalar(Mobile defender)
   at Server.Spells.Spell.GetDamageScalar(Mobile target)
   at Server.Spells.Spell.GetNewAosDamage(Int32 bonus, Int32 dice, Int32 sides, Mobile singleTarget)
   at Server.Spells.First.MagicArrowSpell.Target(Mobile m)
   at Server.Spells.First.MagicArrowSpell.InternalTarget.OnTarget(Mobile from, Object o)
   at Server.Targeting.Target.Invoke(Mobile from, Object targeted)
   at Server.Mobiles.MageAI.ProcessTarget()
   at Server.Mobiles.MageAI.Think()
   at Server.Mobiles.BaseAI.AITimer.OnTick()
   at Server.Timer.Slice()
   at Server.Core.Main(String[] args)

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:42 pm

IIRC, I had just gotten to 3rd tier with rat mages. they cast magic arrow a lot, could that be related? I was in wraith form if that helps.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:43 pm

Actually, I think it actually is related to a mob using it, as oposed to a person, and something with the mage AI. I have to leave which sucks since it might happen again, but when I get back I'll play around with that and try to figure it out and hopefully reproduce it locally.

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:11 pm

I was in Yamatso Mines. I had just started attacking a Yamatso Warrior with 2 fire steeds when it crashed. It seemed to crash within seconds after I told the second steed to attack.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:00 pm

I was just casting Greater Heal on myself a couple of times, bam crash.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:01 pm

i was putting something on the ground

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Finlander · Post by **Finlander** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:10 pm

i logged in and it crashed at same second

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:51 pm

I wasn't on that time, but other account my wife is using was just making cloth in town.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:29 pm

I was taking a drink of beer when it crashed, if that helps...

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:32 pm

Oh no this blows. It just crashed again, and I was telling my pets to all kill something... And I just lost Fey Leggings because of the revert

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Gaiava Arkkaza · Post by **Gaiava Arkkaza** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:39 pm

I was editing the Dark Palace.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:58 pm

Yeah this is totally getting out of hand, and I have no freaken clue whats causing this. This really sucks

First of all, runuo's error handling sucks. Theres no reason why a simple error should totally crash the server, theres got to be a better way to handle things.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:36 pm

I did some blind changes and also set server to debug mode. I hope the changes fixed it, but I won't know ever, since if it does not crash, it means its bound to happen, if it crashes, then I know its not fixed. It's like a time bomb.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:38 am

Crashed again :/ twice :/

Think for now I'll set world saves to every minute till I figure this out. this is just freaken retarded. If only I could know whats causing it.

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E.Machine · Post by **E.Machine** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:43 am

DOCTOR THUNDER wrote:today at 3:20, I was casting wither when it crashed. I was doing coon, pretty ordinary thing for me, I wasn't doing anything special. There was a lot of gold and ps on the dungeon floor.

If anyone wants to come pick them up, you are welcome to them. That is if they are still there when the server reboots.

Can you say "I want to kill you!" any clearer? lol

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:55 pm

I *think* I fixed it now. Turns out if you casted MA on yourself and had a fey slayer spell book, it would crash. So it might of been someone spamming heal on themselves then hitting wrong hot key without noticing the it would crash. Now it should no longer crash that way.

Also when the server crashes and reboots, saves will be set to every 7 minutes until I manually clear the crash status.

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Dumples · Post by **Dumples** » Mon May 21, 2007 1:28 pm

Well... hopefully it stays stable again. Good job!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:11 pm

looks like it crashed twice again, I noticed some more logs, and the saves are more often now (crash recovery mode). Whats totally messed is the times match with the crashed last night, but I had deleted those logs.

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Tugex · Post by **Tugex** » Wed May 23, 2007 8:09 am

Crashed just now when me and mate were killing a drake in fel Fire.

edit: crashed again, after 20 mins or so, this time killing a phantom asp. it camoflaged, appeared next tome, hit me with poison and crash

edit vol 2.0: fought in fel against this weird mob... china best pk (paragon) was its name, server crash happened twice. and the second theory is by my mate, he suspects its the ninjitsu abitily focus strike.

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Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:48 am

crashed today when i was picking up gold after a champ

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:48 pm

OMG this so sucks. Its never going to be fixed :/ always something new that pops up.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:14 pm

This time it was focus attack and not the slayer thing. Things seem to always work stable in test environment then magically stop working after its been fully tested. It *should* be fixed now.

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