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< Nuking the list as a stop-gap >

Discussion in 'Archive' started by Leo, Sep 12, 2014.

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  1. Leo

    Leo Haxor

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    @Geti Can you please fix this bug ? Crashed both my US servers yesterday, again.
     
    Leo, Sep 12, 2014
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  2. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    It's a long standing issue that "un-hides" the "server vanishes from list" bug, if you remember that one. It tries to unblock the list unsafely and either fixes the problem for a short time, or crashes the server; either way the server owner realises and puts it back up.

    Unfortunately until we re-write the API client (a handful of a people have said they might, I bet I have to do it in some months) it won't be fixed, I'll talk with joe about it more to see if he has any extra time.
     
    Geti, Sep 12, 2014
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  3. Leo

    Leo Haxor

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    Well, I don't mind if it hides the server for a while but the crash is...bad. I hope you guys fix it.
     
    Leo, Sep 12, 2014
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  4. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    The reason we chose this messy fix is that it vanished from the server list permanently and without warning to you, requiring a manual restart anyway. As I said, hopefully we can get a full rewrite of the messy APIClient code at some point and have this fixed in the process.
     
    Geti, Sep 12, 2014
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  5. Leo

    Leo Haxor

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    Oooh, "permanently". I see.
     
    Leo, Sep 12, 2014
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  6. Leo

    Leo Haxor

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    This shit happening more and more often and it kills my servers. Please FIX!
     
    Leo, Dec 19, 2014
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  7. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    Apparently the next patch is coming with a lot of fixes. It might be fixed with this one.
     
    Asu, Dec 19, 2014
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  8. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    ^ unfortunately not, but once it's out we'll be able to cycle new things onto the block to be fixed. This build's features are locked at this point.
     
    Geti, Dec 22, 2014
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  9. Colargolator

    Colargolator Horde Gibber
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    I'm sorry to up this quite old bug report, but this particular one is preventing me from hosting my servers for a long time now. It would help the community a lot if this one was solved, I could host servers for competitive play, which is a real problem now Leo stopped hosting a few of his own.
     
    Colargolator, Jun 7, 2015
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  10. Leo

    Leo Haxor

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    It will propably never gonna be fixed. I gave up on this.
     
    Leo, Jun 8, 2015
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  11. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    The bug shouldn't be a problem for running a working server. It may crash after a couple hours/minutes, depending on your net.
    If you set sv_register to 0 in autoconfig.cfg, your server won't show up in the list, which fixes up the API crash - you still can connect to your server manually.
     
    Asu, Jun 8, 2015
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  12. Leo

    Leo Haxor

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    You are killing the patient to cure the disease... The point is for the server to show up in the list. The point is that this should NOT happen at all.
     
    Leo, Jun 8, 2015
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  13. Colargolator

    Colargolator Horde Gibber
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    Of course, that's what I've been using for my training server. Still, having only ghost servers is a real problem to organize events and stuff.
     
    Colargolator, Jun 8, 2015
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  14. bunnie

    bunnie Haxor Tester

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    Heyo @Colargolator, according to @jrgp, nextmapping after the server crashes makes my server crash less. Nextmapping through the mapcycle two times is the best, i guess. Let me copy>paste the message


    Hey

    It's likely that nextmap'ing clears a list of hung/stuck api call threads, which would influence the crashes happening less. [...]

    (one of the other messages when it crashes is something about api calls)
     
    Last edited: Jun 8, 2015
    bunnie, Jun 8, 2015
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  15. Colargolator

    Colargolator Horde Gibber
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    I tried, it still lets the server crash way too often to be really useable
     
    Colargolator, Jun 9, 2015
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  16. bunnie

    bunnie Haxor Tester

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    awww, sorry then, it works for my server :(
     
    bunnie, Jun 10, 2015
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