Annoying Showstopper: "runaway loop counter hit limit&q

[RainMan]

This happens in a regular basis now on my server while hosting "CTF Herforst Elite".

The nexiuz process stops, and noone can play anymore.


This is the error message I find in my nohup.out file, right before the game dies:

^7Quake Error: Host_Error: runaway loop counter hit limit of 10000000 jumps


Is there a way to prevent this from happening??

Cheers,
Rainer aka RainMan

[esteel]

This means there Nexuiz got into a endless loop somewere but we need more information to fix it. There should be more info around this line that tells were this error occured.
Also please tell us which version you have been using.. 2.0, svn or maybe some of the prerelease versions as Linenumbers might have changed between those

[RainMan]

OK - I will try and get that needed info to you soon.

[divVerent]

Can you please post more information about the error? There should be a list of functions with call counts, a list of functions with statement numbers and an assembler-like dump near the error.

And, with which version?

[tChr]

and can someone _please_ configure the server properly? or is the gravity ment to be wacko?

[esteel]

yes it is

[RainMan]

I have the whole log here in a tarball. Here's the URL:

http://halfevil.de/ww2scalemodeler/error.txt.tar.gz

The Nex version on the server is the "nexuizpatch20060813_forumonly" Version.

Hope hat info is enough to help you track down that error

[RainMan]

and can someone _please_ configure the server properly? or is the gravity ment to be wacko?

Yeah.. grav is set to 500 ... dunno why you think it's a problem...

[KadaverJack]

I have the whole log here in a tarball. Here's the URL:

http://halfevil.de/ww2scalemodeler/error.txt.tar.gz

The Nex version on the server is the "nexuizpatch20060813_forumonly" Version.

Hope hat info is enough to help you track down that error

The crash is caused by a runaway loop in new say_team centerprint. It's already fixed in svn (try this patch: http://141.2.16.3:7780/nex/nexuizpatch20060831_v2.1.zip ).

[divVerent]

http://halfevil.de/ww2scalemodeler/error.txt.tar.gz

The Nex version on the server is the "nexuizpatch20060813_forumonly" Version.

Hope hat info is enough to help you track down that error

Looks good - this is the already fixed bug:

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^7Host_Error: runaway loop counter hit limit of 10000000 jumps
^7tip: read above for list of most-executed functions
^7QuakeC crash report for server:
^7s1: STORE_F     (=n\oo\o\), GLOBAL4
^7s2: ^3CALL1      strzone (=())
^7s3: STORE_S    GLOBAL1,
^7s4: STORE_S     (=),   
^7s5: STORE_F    GLOBAL703, GLOBAL706
^7s6: STORE_F    GLOBAL252, GLOBAL707
^7             : wordwrap : statement 5
^7             : Say : statement 57
^7             : SV_ParseClientCommand : statement 743


The wordwrap routine crashed when a line was ending with a backslash (in this case, "n\oo\o"). Has been fixed... if you just want to take over that change, apply this patch to your gamesource:

http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/branches/ ... f_format=u

and run fteqcc to get a new progs.dat.

If you find another bug - the part of the log I quoted here is the generally useful part of a crash message. Watch out for messages like this one and quote them if you get another bug - that would be most helpful.