Debugging woes: Small rollback

[loftar]

I've been trying to shake a bug out of the server code, and I thought I would be able to do so by running the server with AddressSanitizer turned on.

AddressSanitizer however has the unfortunate effect of hard-exiting the program it's applied to instead of allowing it to crash to debugger. I had foreseen this and found the proper configuration to allow it to crash to debugger instead of exiting, and had even tried it locally to see that it really worked as intended before running it on the real server. Or so I thought. The server did crash in AddressSanitizer (I'm still debugging the issue that it crashed on), but apparently it managed to hard-exit anyway for some reason. Since it exited, I unfortunately lost the server process, so I cannot save the latest game state back.

This means that to preserve the integrity of the world, I will need to roll back to the last backed up state. Fortunately, at least, I made such a backup before starting the server, and it crashed only twenty minutes in, so that should be the extent of the rollback. I'm sorry about that, and I hope you can tolerate this relatively small of a rollback. I will examine my continued debugging options.

[Kamekono]

You will be forgiven. Most people are in a good mood cause of the new world about to roll in!

[loftar]

You will be forgiven. Most people are in a good mood cause of the new world about to roll in!

I sure am hoping to fix this bug before then!

[dafels]

GL

[Brojnos]

Dont worry Loftar we love you keep up the good work on this beautiful game, its my favorite right now

[_Scipio]

It's ok. We can just sunset W16 and have 16.1 be W17.

[loftar]

Well, I caught one bug, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the one I was looking for, so debugging continues until morale improves. At least it crashed properly avoiding rollbacks this time.

It's ok. We can just sunset W16 and have 16.1 be W17.

Wouldn't really help anyway, would it now?

[Kamekono]

Well, I caught one bug, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the one I was looking for

Aaah, such a classic.

- insert Bryan Cranston replace the bulb GIF -

If I may ask, will you guys consider some of the suggestions for experiments in W16.1?
There were some interesting ones (I think in the first 20 pages?) before the thread got completely hijacked

[loftar]

Welp, caught another bug that wasn't what I was looking for. Nice, but I'm looking forward to the right one. ^^

If I may ask, will you guys consider some of the suggestions for experiments in W16.1?
There were some interesting ones (I think in the first 20 pages?) before the thread got completely hijacked :roll:

As soon as I can muster the strength to take the thread by the horns. Wasn't quite expecting the amount of traffic that it got. :P

[Zentetsuken]

As soon as I can muster the strength to take the thread by the horns.

Want to start with just one?