LlamaServer: status and bug reports

[WraithLord]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Aaaagh! This is getting ridiculous! It actually knows when I go out!

I sat in the house for about 5 hours this morning, and everything was fine. I went out for about an hour and a half, and about four games crashed.

Now I am stumped. First I thought it was lack of disk space, then I thought it was running as the wrong user. But it seems it's neither. The error is:

Något gick fel!
LoadBattleMap: can't open file
Något gick fel!
LoadBattleMap: can't open file

I'm pretty sure the battle maps are all fine, but more strangely it always works fine when I rehost the games myself. Any ideas are welcome.

Anyway, I'm going out to the fireworks, so I am going to have to turn hosting off again. Also, apologies to those whose games have crashed/disappeared. Hopefully I can sort this out finally tomorrow.

I think the errors can come from one of two reasons, insufficient permissions or different environment settings. I don't know on which OS the server is running but in Unix terms I'd say you either rule out possible permissions problem or .bashrc/.profile etc that cause some shell variable to have an undesired value.
Key questions:
1. What map file can't be loaded?
2. What is path to map file?
3. Who/What is running the process of hosting?
4. What does dom -ddd have to say about all this?- i.e. in what path does it search for the file?- Why can't it open it?
5. Can you run diagnostic commands the same you way you run the hosting?- For example, observe whether commands such as

 $ cat  [path_to_map_file]

succeed.

Or give full permissions to files and check if it make a difference.

$chmod 777 [path_to_map_file]

HTH,
WL

Oh and not to forget, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT!

[WraithLord]

I'm sorry to be the bringer of even more bad news

This time its qwerty. I've received two concerning emails from the server.
The first, "Qwerty: Turn 65 received for C'tis" I have received although I have most definitely not sent any turn file.
The second, "Warning: The LlamaServer can only process one 2h file per e-mail" is inexplicable to me.

[Illuminated One]

Well I guess if hosting manually works then the error is either in the script or in its setup.

Does the llamaserver script set or need any path variables that might affect dominions?

Have you tried to start the part of the script that does the turns manually (as opposed to hosting manually or letting the whole script autostart every x minutes)?

Have you tried to make another small script to host a game?

Did you change anything during the setup of the new llamaserver?

Have you installed a newer version of perl that maybe has some changes that ****s up llamaserver?


Well, I hope you sort this out and really thank you for that cool server and all your efforts.