specific bug report, server dropped us for unknown reasons

[Daturan]

I know this has been discussed here, I DID read those posts.  I simply want to describe how the problem arises for me and what I have tried to correct the situation.  I\'m not a newcomer to testing or programming and I understand the problem probably won\'t be fixed soon.  No biggie.

First I did a clean reinstall of PS and created a new Diaboli(sp? it seems to be spelled two different ways in the character creation menu) named Daturi.  The character creation seemed to go fine except for the \"server dropped us for unknown reasons\" which occured at the very end after selecting my password and the server \"ps.gamiix.com\".

I am running win2k so I cannot select win98 compatibility mode, but it seems that some others here are also using win2k.  I\'m not behind a firewall.  I can ping ps.gamiix.com successfully.  If I try a bogus character name or the wrong password, I get a different error message.  According to \"debug.txt\", the error happens after \"planeshift.application.client: PSLoader: step 3: success\".  It occurs whether I use OpenGL mode, software mode, sound or no sound (nice music btw).

I am open to suggestions.

P.S.  for all you griefers who gripe about the shape of the PS tech demo, find the pre-alpha of EQ sometime.  I\'ve played it; it looks more like a lame no sound, software 3D, keboard controlled rudimentary version of MM6 than any public version of EQ ever did.  Everything starts off small you just don\'t usually get to see it.

[Daturan]

First of all yes I am trying to connect to \"ps.gamiix.com\".

I saw this in psclient.txt even though it seems like something that should be in a \"debug\" type of file:

Loading RPG Data.....Loading RPG Data.....1OK!
psAuthenticationClient::Authenticate(EDITED: REMOVED BY PLAYER,1)
Connection request approved.  Token is 302.  PlayerID is 7571.
Getting info from server!
Request World!
psAuthenticationClient::Authenticate(EDITED: REMOVED BY PLAYER,0)
Connection request approved.  Token is 304.  PlayerID is 7571.
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
psAuthenticationClient::Authenticate(EDITED: REMOVED BY PLAYER,0)
Connection request approved.  Token is 319.  PlayerID is 7571.
Sending heartbeat message 1 to server....
*** MsgHandler for 6 hasn\'t been removed!
*** MsgHandler for 10 hasn\'t been removed!
Total bytes sent out was 704.
Total bytes received was 525.
WARNING: motion, failed to load, because:
  loading \'motion.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    loading \'motion.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    lib\\motion.dll: file not found
WARNING: sndaiff, failed to load, because:
 loading \'sndaiff.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
   loading \'sndaiff.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
   lib\\sndaiff.dll: file not found
WARNING: sndau, failed to load, because:
  loading \'sndau.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
 loading \'sndau.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
 lib\\sndau.dll: file not found
WARNING: sndiff, failed to load, because:
   loading \'sndiff.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    loading \'sndiff.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    lib\\sndiff.dll: file not found
WARNING: sndmod, failed to load, because:
  loading \'sndmod.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    loading \'sndmod.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    lib\\sndmod.dll: file not found
WARNING: sndogg, failed to load, because:
  loading \'sndogg.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    loading \'sndogg.dll\' from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent gives:
    lib\\sndogg.dll: file not found

P.S.  I suggest that in a future version the login handler display ****** for the password, and the user\'s password NOT be logged to the psclient.txt file.  I know it\'s just an alpha but why not nip a potentially embarassing bug now?

[Daturan]

Using the precompiled release of crystalspace 0.94 in place of the .dlls that ship with the 004 demo of PS causes the ps client to crash.  So that didn\'t help.  If anyone can think of a solution or something else for me to attempt in testing PS, please do let me know.

[mikejf7]

Ya know, this is happening to me too  )
Not that my story counts for anything....

[Aruneko]

Don\'t worry, any problems you may have will be fixed... but it will be fixed later instead of sooner.

[WiseElder]

When will the server be back up

[mikejf7]

I was wondering that exact same thing...but you know, I\'m just me...