I am unsure whether it is something recent that valve has done with their 'stats collecting' and whatnot. but it is quite obvious it is something related to the steam server checking valve does. It has happened several times this week where all our servers immediately crash together. Servers on different boxes.. and locations. And after checking with several other major servers.. such as sourceop, topnotchclan, lotus servers, alpha omega etc they seem to be experiencing the exact same crash time as I have witnessed, when I saw their servers emptied out at the same time and reboot. It seemed at least for today's crash it happened at approximately 8:35 PM Central Standard Time, be amazed and you will most likely see your server rebooted at this time as well :P. But it keeps happening every couple days according to my connection logs, in some cases it happens a couple times in one day. Which you can find here
/orangebox/bin/logs and here /orangebox/logs the only thing i get from it is.. 09/13/10 20:35:44 : Failed to load Steam Service (3) 09/13/10 20:35:44 : BOpenService failed (1060) 09/13/10 20:35:44 : ServiceStart: failed to start (183) Now I also host DOD/CSS Servers and this mass crash did not occur on those servers at all, they have not experienced a single crash resulting in that error above. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
