World crashes

**gaeorn** · #1 07-07-2009, 12:19 PM

Do you have any core dumps from the crashes? If so, could you get a backtrace in gdb? Thanks.

Also, what kind of system is this running on: debian, fedora, etc.?

cubber · #2 07-07-2009, 12:27 PM

There are no core dumps in the eqemu directory. The os is Gentoo x86 on both systems. I actually have since wiped the live server and am in the process of redoing it so I am just running off the VM.

Also the user that the crashes happend to last night said it was only on character creation. He tried to create an iksar monk 3 x and it failed each time. He had a hydra account up and noticed a "world crashed" notice in yellow letters in his chat.

I just tried to create a new character on my GM account and got the same issue. I could create the character but as soon as I clicked enter world and it tried to put me in glooming deep it crashed the world. This was on a SoF client.

I also noticed that there is an option for start city for each character with the old home town and crescent reach. with crescent reach being the default. Now on a peq clone server crescent reach is not avaialable to non GM accounts.

cubber · #3 07-07-2009, 12:30 PM

Ok I just logged into my account I just tried to create the toon on. I had a console window open ssh'd into the server and rain tail -f world in the logs directory. This poped up as soon as I logged into my account:

Code:

Got a bogus character (Lyla) Ignoring!!!
PP length =0 but PP should be 19568

and the character was not in my character list but it is present in the DB if I look under phpmyadmin. So are all of the characters that the other user tried to create.

cubber · #4 07-07-2009, 12:33 PM

Also as soon as I hit create character button the world immediatly crashes in the console.

**gaeorn** · #5 07-07-2009, 01:00 PM

Your DB will need to be cleaned up to remove the incomplete chars. I have no idea if the incomplete chars could be a cause for the crashes. They might simply be a result of the crashes.

You could run world under gdb and get a backtrace when it crashes. In your server dir, run the following. You type the portions in red.

Code:

gdb ./world
...misc output...
(gdb) handle SIGTRAP nostop
SIGTRAP is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) y
Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
SIGTRAP       No        Yes     No              Trace/breakpoint trap
(gdb) run
...bunch of output...

At that point you can start up your zone servers and then log in and try to create a character. When the process crashes, it will drop you back to the (gdb) prompt.

Code:

(gdb) bt
...bunch of output from backtrace...
(gdb)

Post the backtrace output here and I'll see if I can help you further.

cubber · #6 07-07-2009, 01:14 PM

I don't have GDB

gdb ./world
-bash: gdb: command not found

I have been deleting the "borked" characters after i attempt to create them. They are sticking in phpmyadmin I just go into the character_ table and remove them one by one.

As for the core dump I do have one just missed it. The file is huge and has just a bunch of characers in it with some words here and there. Want me to post it somewhere for download?

I also just updated my server to SVN Rev751. I tried to create a new toon, and it still has the same issue.

Note I am using PEQ rev703 as a DB with all the updates in the utils/sql/svn folder applied.

**gaeorn** · #7 07-07-2009, 01:18 PM

You can get a backtrace of the corefile using gdb:

Code:

gdb ./world <corefilename>
...bunch of output...
(gdb) bt
...output from backtrace...
(gdb)

Replace <corefilename> with the name of the core file. Save the output from the backtrace and post it here.