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Linux Specific Issues / Re: Corrupted characters?
« on: March 05, 2008, 09:39:12 pm »
/sit, /stand, /die, and every thing else are ignored.  A mod moved my character ... no change.

However ...

I connected via wired instead of wireless just for a change.  Something different (why?  beats me).  I can now move around without a disconnect.  But, it's almost as if I'm in a different world: no NPCs or other players at all, I can drop stuff that other people can't see (but are persistent on reload...), and so on.  Stamina drains OK.  I can even die (/die worked!) and come back to life.  But, I'm in my own little world, with nobody to talk to.  And there seems to be significant lag.  Switching to wireless again puts me where I was, but with the disconnects.

You thought it was a bad dream before?

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Linux Specific Issues / Re: Corrupted characters?
« on: March 04, 2008, 01:00:26 am »
... Uh, oh.  It happened again!

So, I tried a reinstall ... no luck.
I cleaned out .Planeshift ... no luck.

I hope that doesn't mean it's server-side!

The only thing that seems to be consistent is that I think I happened to be sitting when the client was closed ('though my memory isn't perfect on this).  The last time the server went down I was resting, couldn't use the character when I went back in.  Good grief.

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Linux Specific Issues / Re: Corrupted characters?
« on: March 02, 2008, 05:12:58 am »
Well, in the brief time that the server was up, it seems that something got fixed for both accounts.   \\o//

Of course, then the server immediately shut down again, so I haven't had a chance to test this further.

However, I don't know if the solution was a bugfix in the new version or if the software just needed to be reinstalled.  And now we'll never know (unless it happens again...).

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Linux Specific Issues / Re: Corrupted characters?
« on: February 29, 2008, 06:14:42 pm »
This is most definitely NOT a performance issue.  As discussed, my ping time is pretty good (it's a university network).  Even more importantly, I have a character that isn't in this "ethereal state" (so to speak), which is just fine.  When the first character had this problem, I just considered it a fluke and created a new character.  Then it happened with that character, too!  Something strange is going on, that's for sure.

I made a clean install just now, but I can't test it out since the server is down (and has been for several minutes).  If that doesn't work, I'll try a Windows installation, just to confirm that it's a server-side problem and not localized to my computer.

I'm not getting anything useful on the console ... are there any diagnostic flags I can pass in to psclient that might shed some light on the subject?

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Linux Specific Issues / Re: Corrupted characters?
« on: February 29, 2008, 04:25:47 am »
/ping reports a constant 229.  Interesting.

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Linux Specific Issues / Re: Corrupted characters?
« on: February 29, 2008, 04:19:48 am »
How do I check the ping time?  Should I use the standard ping command at a terminal or is there an in-game method for doing this?  The login screen reports apx. 200-250.

One thing I should have mentioned this in the first post is that I'm running the Linux 32-bit binaries on Gentoo.

I'll try reinstalling tonight, just in case that helps.  Who knows.

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Linux Specific Issues / Corrupted characters?
« on: February 29, 2008, 01:00:22 am »
I have two characters that seem to have become corrupted.  Specifically, I can log in, load world, etc., but they can't interact with anything.  After running around like a Kikiri with its head chopped off, I get the message: "Your client has disconnected.  If your are seeing this message a connection error has likely occurred."  Stamina stays at 100%, inventory can't be moved around, and NPCs don't react.  I have seen other characters running around once or twice, which is odd.  I can create a new character and use it, so my setup seems to be OK.

Any help?

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