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Java Updater Problems
« on: November 07, 2005, 12:40:50 am »
Hello, everyone.  Thank you very much to ChaOs and dfryer for sacrificing much of their time to what amounts to a free experience.
I have followed the instructions in the guide to the letter, however, when I try and run the java updater, it doesn\'t work.  It will load up, say update started at this specific time, but then goes no further. As of this posting I\'ve waited over forty-five minutes and haven\'t seen any change in the program.  I am not sure why this is, or what can be done to fix it.  In searching, it seems that few people have had problems with the java updaters.
My specs:

factory iBook G4: 1.33 ghz
512 MB ram
ATI Radeon 9550 32 MB

I\'m not sure what to do.  Later tonight, I might delete all progress made and start over completely from the instructions in the guide.  Maybe the second time\'s the charm?

Thank you very much.
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2005, 12:56:20 am »
What output do you get in the Updater window?
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2005, 01:15:34 am »
\"Unofficial Planeshift Updater.
The author of this program is not liable for any results of installing and/or using this program.
Use at your own risk.
By using this program you agree not to take any legal action against the author for any reason relating to this program.

Update started at 11/06/2005: 18:02:41\"

And that\'s it.  over an hour later, nothing.
I really have no idea.
Thanks for your timely reply!
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2005, 01:27:23 am »
Silly question but have you tried to run it again the server was down but up now.    :))
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2005, 01:30:51 am »
run what?  psclient, or the java updater?  psclient still crashes, even though I went through terminal to allow it permission.  Java updater does exactly what I said above.  It runs, sure, but doesn\'t do anything after saying \"update started\"
answers?  advice?  suggestions?  barbs and insults?
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« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2005, 04:17:59 am »
What OS do you have and what is the output of typing \"java -version\" in Terminal?

EDIT: nevermind, nevermind. There was a little bug (stupid null pointers) which is now fixed. Redownload and update at your pleasure. *bows*
« Last Edit: November 07, 2005, 05:02:55 am by Cha0s »
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« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2005, 06:31:31 am »
A note, unless you update the mirros as per dfryer\'s suggestions, Cha0s\'s updater will still hang.

Hi all, the obnoxious one is back.  Missed you.  Missed me?
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I noticed...
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2005, 08:35:12 am »
Something for the developer (Chaos or whoever)....

The updater.app uses about 70% of the CPU capacity on my iMac G5 while downloading updates, which I deem a bit too much considering it\'s a fast processor and you are just downloading stuff... and even if it was compiling... 70%??? Since the recent G5 iMacs autoadjust the fan speed to the cpu use/ temperature your fan is kinda lifting off while using the app.

Anyhoo, just FYI. Keep up the good work.

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java version \"1.4.2_09\"
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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2005, 09:08:50 am »
The updater.app is not the Java updater, but instead the standard Planeshift updater.  The reason it pegs the CPU is because it is actually running a 3D engine at full speed (Hah!) while updating.  Quite wasteful, actually.  Some changes have been made to make it less hard on the processor, but I actually had to remove them on the mac, since they interfered with the GUI actually working.

Sorry  bout that, I\'m hoping to have a better fix in the future.
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« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2005, 01:31:03 pm »
Yeah, I figure the app wasn\'t the java updater, but I thought it kinda fits into this thread (didn\'t want to start another thread). I just wanted to mention it. I know it\'s quite frustrating to get stuff to work.
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« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2005, 02:45:11 pm »
Edit:

Never mind. I fixed the problem.
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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2005, 03:55:28 pm »
buddha: not anymore. See the post above yours. I fixed it. ;)
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« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2005, 04:35:12 pm »
Cha0s, baby, you rock, BUT I tried using the updated Updater.jar, the one you pointed to.  When I changed the mirrors to the ones dfryer recommended, it started to work perfectly.  (Much better than the updater.app)

Thanks for all your work, you jam.

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« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2005, 06:08:39 pm »
Hrmmm... thought I had that fixed... try it without any updaterconfig.xml file (i.e. just trash it) and see if that works. If not, you need to download again. If so, I need to do more debugging. :P
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« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2005, 12:57:42 pm »
Could the mirror usage please be removed from Updater.jar until the mirrors are reliably updated? It seems that different mirrors have different versions, and my files are often overwritten (probably often with older versions!) every time I run the updater and it happens to use a different mirror than the last one. So the updater is basically going in circles, which is incredibly painful when using a 56kbps modem.

Failing that, does anyone know which of the mirror(s) actually contain the latest files?  At least the updater says which mirror it\'s accessing (even if it\'s just a number and not the domain name), so I can just kill the update if it tries to access a bad one.

I still don\'t seem to be able to launch the client anyway, but I\'m at least trying to keep my files up to date for the day when that\'s finally fixed.

cheers,

Wayne
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