[CF-Devel] Occidental Mages Sword +2 crashes server...

[Mark Wedel]

Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
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      I have a sword of Occidental Mages +2 that I wanted to try out to see what
     
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      it does...
     
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      Every single time  I kill things with it, the server crashes.  (I am using a 
     
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      recent cvs version, Mandrake 8.2, Python 2.0.)
     
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      Some background:  I  had to tweak the compile to get it to work with Python
     
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      2.0 since the detect didn't pick it up in lib/python.   I have Python 2.2 on
     
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      the machine since I upgraded from Mandrake 8.0 to 8.2.  I guess I'll try
     
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      compiling with that first.
     
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      Not having done hardly any development on Linux/Unix, I am not very sure
     
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      what the best way to track down things like this.
     
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      I am willing to spend some time trying to get data...  Any suggestions about
     
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      how one might gather information?  Nothing is printed in the log file that 
     
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      seems relevant.
     
     
  Run the server under the debugger, eg:

  gdb crossfire
  (gdb) run

  When it crashes, do a
(gdb) where

  (gdb) is the prompt gdb provides - you don't enter that part.  This at least 
will show you what function it is crashing in.

  There could certainly odd issues if you are using the library of one version 
of python with the include file from another.