World crashes

cubber · #1 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 · #2 07-07-2009, 12:33 PM

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

**gaeorn** · #3 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 · #4 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** · #5 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.

**gaeorn** · #6 07-07-2009, 01:19 PM

doh. no gdb. hrm, lemme get you information about how to install it.

cubber · #7 07-07-2009, 01:20 PM

this look like the right package:

Code:

 emerge -av gdb

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/gdb-6.8-r1  USE="nls -multitarget -test -vanilla" 15,337 kB

**gaeorn** · #8 07-07-2009, 01:23 PM

try:

Code:

emerge gdb

that might get it installed. I'm not a Gentoo expert, though, so perhaps someone who runs Gentoo could chime in here.