Server crash issues

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  1. sk89q

    sk89q Administrator
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    The server has been crashing often recently -- I'll have to find some time looking into the cause. In the mean time, if you try to join, only to find the process stuck, it means that the server has likely crashed.
     
  2. Neonbeta

    Neonbeta Person who did stuff and things

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    Maybe it would be a good idea to set up an auto restart script?. Especially for times when there aren't any admins online to restart.
     
  3. LGuasso

    LGuasso Community Manager
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    We currently have an auto restart script but sometimes the forcefully stop is so hard that it requires someone to actually restart by hand. :(
     
  4. glitch80

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    I heard Shadow was crashing the server. Something to do with a bunch of arrows.

    o_O
     
  5. Zak

    Zak D'Varin

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    But Glitch. The server doesn't even have knees!
     
  6. Neonbeta

    Neonbeta Person who did stuff and things

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    That was gk being a fucking asshole. I was making myself a sword of the zephyr, and i said i threw some arrows for telum into the cauldron. But he got everyone to rally against me and said i was crashing it.
     
  7. nice one :p
     
  8. glitch80

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    I find your overly detailed explanation suspicious. This should be investigated further. Given the way you brought the server to it's knees, a temporary ban while your guilt is established seems like the best course.
     
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  9. sk89q

    sk89q Administrator
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    The server is actually not crashing -- it is freezing up in most cases. I want to push an update before I go trying to fix it, otherwise the effort may be in vain.

    But I ran into troubles the last time I tried to update the server, so I have to look into it again.
     
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  10. Hopefully in the update I can rejoin the server
     
  11. Xenthis

    Xenthis not dead, yet

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    Server is down again, it has been for quite some time. Is there a way to automatically force start the server, like check if the process is running and manually start if it's not?
     
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    Xenthis,
    biggest problem on this is the process still runing but its freezed(like not responding) and there is no way how to detect this i think so somebo must go and kill the process manualy to restart it ...

    So for your question there is way how to detect if process was runing or not but not if it's not responding.
     
  13. Xenthis

    Xenthis not dead, yet

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    Well darn :\
     
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    If that is the problem, you should be able to modify a script which contacts the server and determines wheter he is responding or not (as a temporary solution obviously). https://gist.github.com/barneygale/1209061 (python snippet)
     
  15. jamerst

    jamerst Ex-Member

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    It looks like a chunk I am currently in may be the cause of some of these crashes. If a mod could TP me out that would be very helpful so everytime I join I don't crash the server :/
     
  16. holygawdinheaven

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    jamerst, you are the fourth person I know of stuck in a bugged chunk =[ is it near the bazaar by any chance?
     
  17. jamerst

    jamerst Ex-Member

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    It is around 300 metres away I am aware of apparent bugged chunks nearby but I don't know where they are or how close they are
     
  18. NolanSyKinsley

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    so it looks like I am not going to the bazaar any time soon...

    Does anyone have the crash reports from these errors/crashes
     
  19. holygawdinheaven

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    Well the coords of my corrupted chunk are -574 329 so mark em and stay away lol
     
  20. jamerst

    jamerst Ex-Member

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    I can't get on anyway unless I want to make the whole server angry at me -_-