[crossfire] Strange problem -- suddenly

[Rick Tanner]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Todd McCoy wrote:

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      Suddenly crossfire won't run on the laptop or my desktop.. I get segmentation 
     
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      faults both places....  what has me really befuddled, is the laptop is a 
     
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      read-only filesystem...  (games-knoppix Three Kings Edition) which has the 
     
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      1.5 GTK client and has functioned perfectly until this evening...
     
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      <..>
     
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      Any ideas?  I was gone last night, and didn't make any changes (especially to 
     
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      the knoppix CD :)... I don't know where to start??  It was working fine 
     
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      yesterday :(
     
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It might be because of the large listing of stale servers in the 
metaserver list.

As posted on:
     
     http://www.metalforge.net/cfmb/viewtopic.php?t=903
     
     

"If your client is crashing when you first startup it might be due to a 
problem with the metaserver and bensnoodle -- long story

For now, you can get around this by adding the -server option, so to 
connect to metalforge it would be:

/path/to/your/client -server crossfire.metalforge.net

This will work for cfclient and gtkclient"