On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Josh Slowick wrote:
> This is completely baffling me, and a couple people I
> know, so here I go. Lately, I've been having alot of
> problems with players signing on and off and such,
> anyone that hasn't been on in 5/10 minutes seems to
> crash it (but not always) I narrowed it down to
> descriptor_data, then to obj_data and it seems to
> really be the same problem. I think that somehow the
> line *obj = obj_zero isn't working all the time.
> heres a gdb of a 'faulty time'
The line in question is working perfectly. The results
you're seeing are occuring *because* that line is working.
Your real problem has nothing at all to do with descriptor_data
or obj_data at all. You're just seeing the results of the bug,
not the cause.
The problem you're having is a buffer overrun that's writing
over the memory allocated to obj_zero (it's also possible that
you're treating a random memory location as a buffer, but a
buffer overrun is more likely).
I'm guessing it's something to do with mob progs, since some of the
strings are:
the test.
endif
endif
mob forget $n
and
delay 2
if players 0
room echo {mA kind, deep voice echoes through the tower "{MIf
you're having trouble, just type {GSAY help{M and the
Now go find out why your mob programs are overflowing their buffers.
Dennis
