0.3.012 - lockups

[Godfrey]

Type: Bug

Description: Soon after entering the world, my entire machine locks up.  Sometimes it happens immediately, sometimes it lets me walk around for a few minutes.  Once it happens, I get no cursor movement, no keyboard response (not even the LEDs for caps/num lock).  I continue to hear the background music until the file ends, after which I hear wind every now and then.

This last time, I did it in a window, running it -verbose from konsole.  It forced a relight of several maps, which took a while.  It then locked up with the following displayed in konsole:

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FindWidget
:
  Could not locate widget ButtonExamine in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonUnlock in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonUse in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonPickup in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonDrop in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonLoot in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonBuySell in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonGive in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonClose in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonPlayerDesc in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonAttack in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonCombine in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonExchange in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonTrain in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonNPCTalk in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonViewStats in InteractWindow
  Could not locate widget ButtonDismiss in InteractWindow

planeshift.application.client:
  PSLoader: step 5: success


System specs: AMD Duron 1200, 512 MB, Debian Sarge (stable 3.1; 2.6.8-2-k7 kernel)

[Karosh_Steinkatz]

My comp also froze yesterday although the game window was still active and rendering the game. The music was also still played, but I didn\'t get any errors. Just when I spotted the Teffy in the sewers my Linux went *boom*.
Your errors indicate that your data/gui/interact.xml is damaged or empty, maybe even missing.

[Godfrey]

I renamed interact.xml, ran update, and it downloaded a file identical to the old one.

I ran psclient again, with stdout and stderr piped to files (zipped here if they\'ll help narrow anything down); the stdout file ended with the same text as I\'d seen in the konsole window previously.  Hopefully there wasn\'t more that didn\'t get flushed to disk, as I had to hard-reboot.

[Godfrey]

For a while, because it was completely unusable, I switched to playing PS on my Windows machine -- and have had quite a few game lockups in the same spot (coming down from the windowless tower towards the plaza).  If I get out of that area -- for example, on the path to the magic shop -- it runs fine under Linux again (actually, better than fine; my Linux machine has maybe 1/3 of the horsepower of my Windows machine, but its framerates are about 2/3 of what I get under Windows -- impressive!).

Now, under Windows, when it locks up, I can just click outside the game window and can get to Task Manager in order to kill psclient.  But my Linux machine freezes completely; \"Runaway Process Catcher\" doesn\'t do the trick either.  Anyone know a way I can kill psclient when this happens, without hard-rebooting?

[Bereror]

I press ++ and login on the console. Then I run ps a, look for the process ID of psclient and kill it with kill .

[Godfrey]

The keyboard becomes completely unresponsive when it locks up; none of the Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys work.  (It was the second or third thing I tried.)  

Even the Caps/Num/Scroll lock LEDs don\'t change state when I press their associated keys.

[booiiing]

if your kernel is compiled with sysrq-key-support (default debian-kernels are), you can press \"AltGr\"+\"Print Screen\"(aka SysRq)+\"R\" to get keyboard-control back. if even that doesn\'t work, you are in trouble

[Godfrey]

Looks like I\'m in trouble.  

Even though the video, mouse and keyboard lock up entirely, things are still going on (I can see from my XP box that the server is still running -- though I can\'t connect to it at the moment due to an apparent version incompatibility -- and I\'ve discovered that I can ssh to the machine so I can at least reboot it properly).

I managed to teleport to the new Death Realm and run all the way through it, without a lockup.  Took the exit, respawned back in the NPC room, and bam! Locked up after about five seconds.  Of course, I can\'t teleport on the official server, but I killed myself, ran through the DR there just fine, spawned back in hydlaa_plaza, rotated left about five degrees... and locked up.

I suspect the problem may be my video card (Radeon 7200).  I\'ll go buy a cheap NVidia card and see if that fixes it.  But I wonder why I\'ve got no problem in the Death Realm; it just doesn\'t make sense.

Edit: One minor weirdness -- if I\'m running psclient in a window rather than fullscreen, and the cursor is outside the window when it locks up, I can move the cursor all around the screen, though clicking on other windows has no effect.  Weird.

[Godfrey]

Looks like the problem was the video card after all.

I put in a GeForce FX 5500, and the lockups went away.  I do get a \"hitch\" every couple of seconds, but only when I\'m moving.  But I\'ll take that over a lockup any day!

Frame rates are pretty good, though I notice the third-person camera\'s collision detection has a few glitches that I don\'t see in the Windows client.