Who has problems with the latest Releases?

[Angelox]

I'm curious as to who has problems with the newest releases of the EqEmu server?
here's how it's been with me;
anything after EQEmu-0.7.0-933, quest globals do not work to their fullest anymore.
With EQEmu-0.7.0-941 and now the brand new EQEmu-0.7.0-942; when I log a character in, it just stays frozen in one spot, rendering these two versions, totally useless.
I know I have gotten emails from other people stating the same problems, but I would like to know if it's all or most of us, or just "meaningless" portion of the users.

[bufferofnewbies]

I havent tried the 942 out yet, but the 941 is unuseable atm for me. Same locking in place.

I had thought this to be a known issue. BUt glad you posted this to make sure, would be a curosity to see if it was actually working for some.

[Angelox]

I wonder what the reason is for continued releases, if they don't work for anyone.

[mattmeck]

Allow me to explain.


Downloading the source and compiling on your own is always risky, nothing is "officialy released" its a development release.

When you fix something you always run the risk of breaking something else. What was broken just needs to be fixed.


Let me state it again, there has not been an official release because its not ready yet, your downloading the developmental code, expect it to be broke.

[Angelox]

I understand. Most (if any) servers don't even use new releases. But aren't the devs interested in it being tested by anyone?
I tried the windows executables also.
Anyways maybe this thread is out of place then.

[KLS]

I don't see anything about locking in place on the bug report areas, and since it doesn't happen to me it wasn't really a known issue to me. Would be nice if I had a more detailed description of what's going on though. I'd be glad to fix any bugs the new code introduced, and I'm sure there's some.

[mattmeck]

I understand. Most (if any) servers don't even use new releases. But aren't the devs interested in it being tested by anyone?
I tried the windows executables also.
Anyways maybe this thread is out of place then.

Yes it needs to be tested thats why its able to be downloaded, needs to be tested and bugs reported so that they can be fixed.

[Angelox]

Not that I don't want to post there, just that I don't know where or how, and probably many more are on my same boat.
It would be nice if we could keep a thread like this, and you could check once in a while. If so, I'll re-load 942 and detail it to you.
Also, there's the quest globals issue, which really doesn't affect many people - but I think it's because who ever might use it, doesn't use all the features. I can detail that for you also.

[mattmeck]

There is 2 diferent bug reporting forums here, Look under Development section of these forums.


Also there is the source forge bug reporting feture that nobody uses too.

[John Adams]

I've been toiling over a test plan for some time. Soon as it gets at least comparable to the one on the Wiki, I will post/update it. I think more people should be involved in simple testing, and not just running servers, but that's the QA in me coming out. :)

Meanwhile, I have had little issue with 941 for weeks on FC4. No freezing, but occasionally I'll get weird messages when I zone that look like paths to the quest scripts (perl5.8/something.pl etc). I have not reported it because when I get logging set up, it stops happening.

[Angelox]

And to think, you made me a moderator! Just pity me is all :)
I thought maybe there was another place where people were bug posting besides the forums here.
I'll get started and start posting instead of whining.

[cutterjohn]

I know about the quest global problem, because Angelox(and others) told me so in my thread detailing y trials and tribulations of setting up a minilogin server last weekend. (Mostly problems caused by a borked mysql GUI query browser app.)

Other than that my characters in 941 can neither move forwards, nor backwards. 940(and presumably everything else below) allowed movement.

I ended up using 933 on the reccomendations of various people here...

[Angelox]

Moved this to bug reports, since it might help and won't die out

[CrabClaw]

I upgraded from 941 to 942 with no hitches yet with Angel's AXPEQ 21d (yes I have yet to update to 21e), on a winXP system. I use no custom rules. Could it be a Linux problem?

[Angelox]

I upgraded from 941 to 942 with no hitches yet with Angel's AXPEQ 21d (yes I have yet to update to 21e), on a winXP system. I use no custom rules. Could it be a Linux problem?
I tested/had the same problem under XP also, but tell me how to remove the custom rules - maybe, that's it

[John Adams]

Still no problem with any builds since 933 on FC4. You have your rulesflag = 1 in your account record? (gets set to 1 by entering #acceptrules). I have honestly not seen this. Maybe check your toons AGI too. Is it 1? Although, I think even SOE did away with AGI=1 making you immovable.

Good luck guys. I honestly do not see the problem, no matter what I do.

[KingMort]

With the issue of people being Stuck when they zone in

I think this has something to do with the binarys not reading the "underworld" coordinates in the zone table.....

That would explain also why in the latest build if you hit Jump, you just keep going up , and never stop hehe

Underworld coords needs to be read correctly it's not atm (I think)


KingMort

[Angelox]

Problem solved already I hadn't sourced in the "cancombat" fix from 942

[John Adams]

Problem solved already I hadn't sourced in the "cancombat" fix from 942
/bonk Angelox

:D