Having issues with bots dying and zones crashing

cubber · #1 02-20-2009, 11:22 AM

I have been having this issue since around rev 330 or so. Please see this thread for the full writeup and what I have done to track it down to bots:

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=27523

At first zones were crashing when a PC died and bots died. Also even when bots werent enabled. I changed up my make files a bit and now it only happens when I have bots enabled and a bot dies.

**Congdar** · #2 02-20-2009, 01:16 PM

I am currently testing a fix on my server.

cubber · #3 02-20-2009, 01:37 PM

Is it a confirmed issue then or just isolated to me? More testing shows that it is happening randomly on bots and not at all on players now. I have posted more info in my link.

**Congdar** · #4 02-20-2009, 07:30 PM

It's a tough find. One fix was SVN 350 where the check for flash of steel aa was checking the attacker instead of the defender and the attacker had just died from the first riposte. the attacker was a bot and the reference to the bot object was gone.

I'm seeing some other crashes too that seem to be race conditions where the bot has died and it's object is not yet set to null but all of it's data is garbage.

I do have some legit fixes too but i'm still seeing these other bugs.

cubber · #5 02-20-2009, 08:08 PM

SVN 350 is where the crashes became more random instead of all the time.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

**Congdar** · #6 02-21-2009, 05:13 PM

I removed my last major bot update. I'm hoping this either stops the crashing issue or eliminates that update as the cause.