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Persistent Bugs

Mar 22, 2004 Arolte link
There are two of 'em which I encountered for several releases now, and one which is recent.

First one: Getting stuck in a station. This has been around for quite a while now. For some reason I can't exit a station even after selecting a ship equipped with an engine and battery. It usually happens when I'm in a station and I go to the ship selection menu and pick another ship in my inventory. Then when I try to leave it just says something like "Leaving station...". The station interface remains but I can hear engines (presumably the bots in the home sector circling the station) flying by occasionally. It's just stuck like that. If I try to press any other buttons in the station interface my screen turns black until I log off using the console. This is very hard to duplicate but recently it's been happening a lot for me.

Second one: Getting stuck in wormholes. Yep, it's back. Although this is most likely server related, and since the server isn't in its most stable condition now, I think it would be fair to wait and see if it goes away next update.

And the new one... *drumroll* duplicate players in a sector. I was trying to meet up with another teammate in a sector to lend him money, and when I finally entered the sector I noticed it wouldn't let me send money to that person. Then in team chat I noticed he was actually in another sector. I checked the sector stats window again and lo and behold he was at two places at once. I told him to return to my sector to see what would happen. That's when the duplicates formed. I tried to give him money again and it worked this time.

Screenshot here: http://mmiski.tripod.com/bugs.html
Mar 22, 2004 raybondo link
Do a /verbose 3 (it will print tons of info to your console)
then try to make the problem happen.
send me your errors.log file that results with an explaination of which bug you encountered in the test.
Mar 23, 2004 RelayeR link
I have sent an errors.log of the same problem to you, Ray (I used /verbose 9 instead of 3 -I forgot the command but this did record to the console- Hope it worked). The screenshots wouldn't record but they show the same thing as on Arolte's.
Mar 23, 2004 Arolte link
RelayeR, did you also get the one where you get stuck in stations? To me that one's the most annoying and common. If nobody submits any bugs on it tonight I'll see if I can get on and get a more detailed bug report. I'm sure it can be duplicated in less than half an hour, simply by entering and leaving a station repeatedly.
Mar 23, 2004 RelayeR link
I've had it but, it has been very sporadic and I've never been able to duplicate it at will.
Mar 23, 2004 raybondo link
resend it please.
I accidentally deleted it thinking it was spam.
Mar 23, 2004 Arolte link
Ray, I sent you a verbose 8 version of my errors.log file via e-mail. Check your inbox for it. It took a while to do it but I finally got it around the end. You'll notice me trying to press all kinds of buttons and trying to switch ships, set home, etc. while in the station, seeing if a certain pattern triggers it. When it happens I can hear everything around the station but I'm still in the station. It's really weird. Oh and you'll also see some other weird messages popping up while I was navigating the Vendetta universe. Not sure if those were normal. Probably are but who knows.
Mar 23, 2004 a1k0n link
Ah, to duplicate it, you set home and then launched quickly; the sector got confused. That was already fixed in-house and I have now merged in the fix to the production server. There's some other stuff I want to merge before I restart though.

For now, just wait a second or after setting home (or maybe other things...) before launching.

Thanks for the bug-hunting effort.
Mar 25, 2004 RelayeR link
Resent, Ray.
Mar 25, 2004 raybondo link
thanks
Mar 25, 2004 a1k0n link
These are now theoretically fixed. The getting-stuck-in-wormholes bug was something we had solved on our old old old server and something I had been meaning to add (for some time) to the new server.

The problem was stuff getting mixed up between the old sector and the new sector while you're "in limbo"; so now it (should!) correctly wait until you're thoroughly out of the old sector before putting you in a new one. This is a rare problem that only happens with lag/packet loss/bad timing.
Mar 27, 2004 RelayeR link
Cool! Now, on to the multiple characters in the sector list...
Mar 29, 2004 a1k0n link
Duplicate characters are part of the "Stuck in warp" bug. Let me know if this persists after yesterday.

I'd file a report about getting stuck in a station but I don't remember the specifics right now.
Mar 29, 2004 RelayeR link
Will do...thx.