Random Crash on lps client

[aladedragon]

Hi forum menbers, I was told in the Dev's metting to post my problem. Mi client is Crasinh every 10 minutes. Some days I spend more time reloading than playing.
I tried all about "crash" I found in the forum:
Nvidia opensource; propietary; packaged drivers
Reinstalls from scracht,
shutdown the firewall,
Turn off the sound, in menu and in config file.
Install openhal
delete spells efects, repair it
Delete the game
install at home at non root user
.......
Some ideas come from the mail list from linux.

this are my glxinfo log:
http://pastebin.com/ZDihKPrR
and game log:
http://pastebin.com/Ly2X9YkV

Thanks for your help.
 

[helios21]

Hi aladedragon,

glxinfo looks like NVidia proprietary driver. Hardware accelleration is enabled. Seems to be a pretty old version of NVidia driver. In case you used the Debian standard installation method via package, it might be the newest you can get for Debian Squeeze. Consider upgrading to Wheezy. It has newer NVidia packages.

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Sun Mar 17 22:40:25 2013, Received scale factor for effect crystal_casting that don't use param scaling
Sun Mar 17 22:40:28 2013, <src/client/psclientchar.cpp:540 HandleEffect SEVERE>
Sun Mar 17 22:40:28 2013, Failed to render effect spell_failure
Sun Mar 17 22:40:30 2013, <src/common/effects/pseffectmanager.cpp:309 RenderEffect SEVERE>
Sun Mar 17 22:40:30 2013, Received scale factor for effect crystal_casting that don't use param scaling
Sun Mar 17 22:40:33 2013, <src/common/effects/pseffectmanager.cpp:309 RenderEffect SEVERE>
Sun Mar 17 22:40:33 2013, Received scale factor for effect life_infusion that don't use param scaling
Sun Mar 17 22:41:43 2013, <src/client/psengine.cpp:1885 FatalError SEVERE>
Well, there seem to be some issue with rendering spell effects. And some other art related issues, but I think they do not explain the "crash" or sudden end.

But this does:

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Sun Mar 17 22:41:43 2013, Server is not responding, try again in 5 minutes. Check http://planeshift.subhosting.net/ page for status.
Sun Mar 17 22:41:43 2013,
It means that either the server really does not respond or your connection to it is broke.

From all I can tell this is no crash at all. Just a lost connection.

I suggest you run with --console for some time and if you see a real crash post a link to a pastebin again.

Also include as much detail on your hardware and software configuration as you can. I know you use Debian Squeeze. What desktop environment? Is compositing enabled? And stuff like that.

If you always get only "Server not responding" in log, I think the issue is your ISP.

Good luck,
helios21

[aladedragon]

This other log was doing herbalism.

http://pastebin.com/j7CiS6K8

Each time i put flowers in hte table.
no server conexion fault.

[cdmoreland]

try disabling GLSL. Shaders might be the problem

[aladedragon]

is a option in the game or in config file?, and wich one is?.
Thanks.

[LigH]

Minks would say:



0.5.9: Common problem on Intel Chips: How can I disable GLSL?

[helios21]

This other log was doing herbalism.

http://pastebin.com/j7CiS6K8

Each time i put flowers in hte table.
no server conexion fault.

Yes, this time its a real crash. A segmentation fault which means tried to access memory that does not belong to the process. I do not have any idea about the reasons from looking at the logs. So I´d suggest try out that disabling GLSL thing first as recommended. (Even tough its mentioned regarding Intel, and AFAIK you are using NVidia with proprietary drivers.)

I think it would be possible to attach the process to gdb and get a full backtrace if the downloaded client has debug information. I am not sure whats recommended here. In any case, you can also try to open a flyspray bug report about it. And maybe someone who did this can help with the backtrace stuff. I know the basic stuff, but there are some pecularities due to planeshift started by shell script and extra binary which then starts psclient.bin.

[aladedragon]

It seems, that a distro update with new drivers and a fresh client installed, has solved some problems like crashing when crafting. The network problems.... well I can't solve it at the moment.
Thanks to all for the help.