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Title: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on January 01, 2020, 12:42:00 PM
It seems the pakset at stepehnson.siemens is not up-to-date. I just updated two devices using the nightly updater and it's showing a missmatch on both devices.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on January 01, 2020, 05:38:02 PM
Let's see tomorrow, it updates automatically every day. And I had to update today...
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on January 02, 2020, 10:05:21 AM
It still tells me a misssmatch so I am still force-connecting.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on January 02, 2020, 11:02:01 AM
That may be the reason why it crashes so often?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on January 02, 2020, 12:01:58 PM
Maybe but Idon't think so. It should desync in case of differences, instead of crashing. Additionally, it crashed last night when I was not connected.
I have experienced frequent crashes when much route search happens in a short period of time, so I guess the stupid waypoint reversing could be the cause.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on January 02, 2020, 06:53:50 PM
I have updated my computer now from http://bridgewater-brunel.me.uk/downloads/nightly/pakset/ and it matches with server.
Probably you have to delete the whole pak128.britain-ex folder and unpack the new one.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: DrSuperGood on January 02, 2020, 07:26:04 PM
Quote from: Vladki on January 02, 2020, 06:53:50 PMI have updated my computer now from http://bridgewater-brunel.me.uk/downloads/nightly/pakset/ and it matches with server.Probably you have to delete the whole pak128.britain-ex folder and unpack the new one.
The nightly updater was designed to track both file additions and removals. There should be no need to do this unless some error I did not predict occurs.

If one deletes the pakset folder, deletes the "manifest.hash" file and then re-runs the updater it should automatically pull down the entire pakset again as it will detect the missing files and replace them.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on January 02, 2020, 08:05:18 PM
Seems to be an issue with my laptops and funnys simutrans. My PC seems to be fine.

Edit: deleting the pakset dir and Simutrans Extended.hash, there was no manifest.hash, worked. So something went wrong at the update of ot both devices.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on January 11, 2020, 09:43:34 PM
It seems the server currently suffers massive desync problems.
It will desync a few seconds after connecting to the server.

Edit: It doesn't desync anymore, it just crashed.


Could have been me causing both, I am currently trying to reproduce.
I just replaced my trams so they all went to the depot, for sure happy livelocking happened because I did not put oneway signs around the deopot. When in drive_by_sight, trams will try to reverse when they encounter a vehicle driving in the opposite direction and that rerversal semmed to have caused the desyncs but I can not yet confirm this for sure as I could not setup a reproduction case for this but I observed desyncs matched the reversal timer of my trams.

The crash was most likely because I was trying to place a one way sign underneath those livelocking trams.

I am currently trying to reproduce this on a localhost server and will update the existing crash bugreport and create a new one related to the desync as soon as I can confirm this.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on January 12, 2020, 12:20:59 PM
Thank you for the report. I should be grateful if any reproduction case and bug report could be posted in its own thread in the development forum, one thread for the loss of synchronisation and another for the crash.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on January 12, 2020, 01:19:47 PM
As mentioned, there already exists a report for the crash and I will update it with the reproduction case, I just reproduced it now but well, cliche Britains would say it's teatime, so it will take a while until I update that post.
I could not yet reproduce the desync but as soon as I got it reproduced, I will for sure file a bugreport. This post here is not meant to be a bugreport but moreover some information for anyone playing or administration the server.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on January 12, 2020, 02:09:07 PM
Splendid, thank you for clarifying.

I should note that loss of synchronisation bugs are usually extremely hard to diagnose, sometimes taking many, many months of doing nothing else to fix.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 01, 2020, 11:51:10 AM
Stephenson-Siemens fails with this error:

Reading menu configuration ...
ERROR: create_general_tool():   cannot satisfy request for general_tool[40]!
For help with this error or to file a bug report please see the Simutrans forum:
http://forum.simutrans.com
Warning: create_simple_tool():  deprecated tool [27] requested
Reading object data from Pak128.Britain-Ex/...
Message: ground_desc_t::register_desc():        setting raster width to 1
FATAL ERROR: vehicle_reader_t::read_node() - Incompatible pak file version for Simutrans-Ex, number 5
Aborting program execution ...

For help with this error or to file a bug report please see the Simutrans forum at
http://forum.simutrans.com
FATAL ERROR: vehicle_reader_t::read_node() - Incompatible pak file version for Simutrans-Ex, number 5
Aborting program execution ...

For help with this error or to file a bug report please see the Simutrans forum at
http://forum.simutrans.com
Aborted (core dumped)


And the same error is for swedish game
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on February 01, 2020, 12:08:42 PM
What appears to be happening is that the command line version is failing to compile with the following error:


build/server/gui/components/gui_image_list.o: In function `gui_image_list_t::draw(scr_coord)':
gui_image_list.cc:(.text+0x317): undefined reference to `display_veh_form_wh_clip_rgb(short, short, short, unsigned short, bool, unsigned char, unsigned char, bool, signed char)'
gui_image_list.cc:(.text+0x5d0): undefined reference to `display_veh_form_wh_clip_rgb(short, short, short, unsigned short, bool, unsigned char, unsigned char, bool, signed char)'
build/server/gui/convoi_detail_t.o: In function `gui_convoy_formaion_t::draw(scr_coord)':
convoi_detail_t.cc:(.text+0x6d7): undefined reference to `display_veh_form_wh_clip_rgb(short, short, short, unsigned short, bool, unsigned char, unsigned char, bool, signed char)'
convoi_detail_t.cc:(.text+0x749): undefined reference to `display_veh_form_wh_clip_rgb(short, short, short, unsigned short, bool, unsigned char, unsigned char, bool, signed char)'
build/server/gui/convoi_detail_t.o: In function `gui_convoy_maintenance_info_t::draw(scr_coord)':
convoi_detail_t.cc:(.text+0xfdb): undefined reference to `display_veh_form_wh_clip_rgb(short, short, short, unsigned short, bool, unsigned char, unsigned char, bool, signed char)'
build/server/gui/convoi_detail_t.o:convoi_detail_t.cc:(.text+0x1078): more undefined references to `display_veh_form_wh_clip_rgb(short, short, short, unsigned short, bool, unsigned char, unsigned char, bool, signed char)' follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
common.mk:21: recipe for target 'build/server/simutrans-extended' failed
make: *** [build/server/simutrans-extended] Error 1


This means that the old version of the server is running, which is incompatible with the latest pakset version. I am looking into this now.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on February 01, 2020, 12:40:07 PM
Now fixed - emergency recompile underway.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 01, 2020, 04:36:06 PM
The server seems to be still down
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 01, 2020, 04:39:33 PM
I'm not at home so I can't update and start it. Please be patient
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 01, 2020, 04:56:53 PM
Okok, I am very patient. When will the server be online?  ;D
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 01, 2020, 05:15:15 PM
Probably before 20:00 CET
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 01, 2020, 05:20:12 PM
Don't hurry! I was joking!
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 01, 2020, 07:06:17 PM
Can anyone connect now? I have updated server and my client but get pakset mismatch.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 01, 2020, 07:11:01 PM
I got the same and just force-connected^^
Did you try deleting the Simutrans Extended.hash and running the updater again?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 01, 2020, 07:18:52 PM
I have my own updater - there's no *.hash file at all. I allways delete the whole pakset directory and unpack fresh.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 01, 2020, 07:23:01 PM
strange...
Force connecting worked fine without any desyncs so far.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 01, 2020, 08:35:38 PM
@Ranran, please check here. I have double checked that the pakset at my client and server is exactly the same, but network connect window says there is packet mismatch.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Ranran(retired) on February 01, 2020, 09:39:56 PM
Sorry for the inconvenience. (´・ω・`)
Can anyone verify that this fix is correct?
https://github.com/Ranran-the-JuicyPork/simutrans-extended/tree/fix-for-ex14-8
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on February 01, 2020, 11:50:11 PM
I have now merged this - thank you for the fix.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: freddyhayward on February 02, 2020, 01:16:08 AM
How exactly does one force-connect to the server?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 02, 2020, 01:59:02 AM
When it's online load the pseudo-savegame "net:<server_adress>"
In case of stephenson-siemens it is "net:list.extended.simutrans.org"

btw. you can even use -load "net:list.extended.simutrans.org" on the commandline. If you have a little start script, this is quite useful to automatically connect to the server whenever you start the game.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 02, 2020, 11:18:59 AM
Quote from: Ranran on February 01, 2020, 09:39:56 PM
Sorry for the inconvenience. (´・ω・`)
Can anyone verify that this fix is correct?
https://github.com/Ranran-the-JuicyPork/simutrans-extended/tree/fix-for-ex14-8

I have updated the server and client, and still it show pakset mismatch
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Ranran(retired) on February 02, 2020, 02:16:45 PM
Thank you for your report. I suppose this is due to an unintended rewrite of the formation picture reported by you in another thread.
I threw a pull request (https://github.com/jamespetts/simutrans-extended/pull/138). It would be helpful if you could check this.
I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience I have caused.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on February 02, 2020, 02:30:24 PM
Thank you for the fix: I have now merged this into the master branch.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: kittens45 on February 02, 2020, 10:56:08 PM
keep getting pack mismatched tried every redownloading methods
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 02, 2020, 11:41:50 PM
please wait for "tonightly" build ;)
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: kittens45 on February 04, 2020, 12:33:27 AM
says I need 0.9.3 packset
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 04, 2020, 12:42:44 AM
It is a current bug. You need to force connect using the above described method.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Ranran(retired) on February 05, 2020, 09:31:11 AM
I may not have time to reply until next week due to my family's illness, but has the mismatch been resolved?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 05, 2020, 10:26:54 AM
Quote from: Ranran on February 05, 2020, 09:31:11 AMbut has the mismatch been resolved?
no
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Ranran(retired) on February 10, 2020, 01:53:00 PM
I further investigated the pakset mismatch.

pak.sweden did not show much mismatch and were entirely vehicles but not related to any particular parameters.
Also, there is a case where a mismatch is determined and a case where a mismatch is not determined even for the same vehicle.

Judging from that, I speculated that it was a problem related to the timeline related to future vehicle information.
is_future has been expanded to two levels in future vehicle information.
It is helpful to confirm if the following fixes (https://github.com/jamespetts/simutrans-extended/pull/140/commits/269a0dbc50773504372c7fbec77862d0dc8920f8) resolve the issue.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on February 10, 2020, 09:41:57 PM
Quote from: Ranran on February 10, 2020, 01:53:00 PM
I further investigated the pakset mismatch.

pak.sweden did not show much mismatch and were entirely vehicles but not related to any particular parameters.
Also, there is a case where a mismatch is determined and a case where a mismatch is not determined even for the same vehicle.

Judging from that, I speculated that it was a problem related to the timeline related to future vehicle information.
is_future has been expanded to two levels in future vehicle information.
It is helpful to confirm if the following fixes (https://github.com/jamespetts/simutrans-extended/pull/140/commits/269a0dbc50773504372c7fbec77862d0dc8920f8) resolve the issue.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for this - now incorporated.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Ranran(retired) on February 11, 2020, 09:13:34 AM
Sorry, the countermeasures did not seem to be effective. (´・ω・`)
I am investigating the possibility of a matter when can_lead_from_rear = 0.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 19, 2020, 02:44:15 PM
Listservers and stephenson-siemens down or is this some kind of DNS error here?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Matthew on February 19, 2020, 06:11:26 PM
I can't access Stephenson-Siemens either. I get a freeze when I click on the network icon. With Freahk's loading cheat the freeze is after the pakset has loaded.

GDB reports:
0x00007ffff7bc7777 in __libc_connect (fd=20, addr=..., len=16) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/connect.c:26
26 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/connect.c: No such file or directory.

Backtrace:
#0  0x00007ffff7bc7777 in __libc_connect (fd=20, addr=..., len=16) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/connect.c:26
#1  0x00000000005cd79f in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000005d8c56 in ?? ()
#3  0x0000000000773d53 in ?? ()
#4  0x0000000000711e4b in ?? ()
#5  0x0000000000725597 in ?? ()
#6  0x00007ffff6748b97 in __libc_start_main (main=0x410130 <main>, argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffdfb8, init=<optimised out>, fini=<optimised out>,
    rtld_fini=<optimised out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdfa8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:310
#7  0x0000000000410199 in ?? ()

Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 19, 2020, 07:02:31 PM
Hello, the server is completely down. I have already asked Isaac what's going on. Sorry but I can't do anything about it at the moment.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on February 19, 2020, 08:31:05 PM
Yes, the server is down. I'm working on a replacement.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on February 19, 2020, 08:38:27 PM
Whoever has the last save, please share it.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 20, 2020, 11:51:52 AM
I had a quick look at the server on 18th February at 13:00, it's April 2001 at roughly 5:38:46 ingame.
Anyone got a later save?

I cannot attach the save to the forums due to size restrictions but I might send it by mail.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Matthew on February 20, 2020, 05:24:14 PM
This save (https://app.box.com/s/2c7namx3fcbet31h5w3vyyuuub6e4pln) is from Tuesday 18 February at ~0430 CET. Earlier than Freahk's, but available now if that helps.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 28, 2020, 05:01:21 PM
Any news?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on February 28, 2020, 11:58:41 PM
I have the replacement and had intended to give necessary access, but I started a new job and that has caused schedule delays. But I do have the next three days off, so I will be working on it. I do apologize for the delay.

Also, It is unknown if this server will be able to host a game. I hope it will be, but I'm unsure until it's tried.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on February 29, 2020, 12:36:33 AM
Don't hurry and no need to apologize!
I greatly appreciate the effort and just wanted to know if there are some serious issues

It's all right. If the server cannot host the game, I might have a suitable server ;)
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Ranran(retired) on March 08, 2020, 07:35:25 AM
I proceeded to investigate the pakset mismatch issue.

I found a rail way vehicle that displays different formation pictures in network mode and offline mode.
This seems to happen on the side where bidirectional = 0 and no constraint is set.
From this I presumed that the related variables were not initialized correctly and fixed that.


I threw a pull request (https://github.com/jamespetts/simutrans-extended/pull/142).
It would be helpful to confirm if this fix resolves the mismatch. (´・ω・`)

In addition, the typo of help text has been modified in one place.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on March 31, 2020, 08:36:00 PM
The list server is up and running. I will try restoring the stephenson-siemens game when the nightly pakset build is fixed (i.e. when makeobj is fixed)
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on April 01, 2020, 04:17:24 PM
Thank you all for your incredible patience with me. I am quite confident that the server situation will now be stable for the foreseeable.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on April 01, 2020, 08:28:14 PM
Quote from: Vladki on March 31, 2020, 08:36:00 PMI will try restoring the stephenson-siemens game when the nightly pakset build is fixed
Wait! That means it will be running on the new servers? I did not expect this tbh but that's awesome news!

Quote from: Isaac.Eiland-Hall on April 01, 2020, 04:17:24 PMThank you all for your incredible patience with me.
Thank you for hosting all these services!
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on April 01, 2020, 08:35:47 PM
Quote from: Freahk on April 01, 2020, 08:28:14 PMWait! That means it will be running on the new servers? I did not expect this tbh but that's awesome news!
Yes (if the hardware has enough power).
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on April 02, 2020, 04:06:24 AM
I'm hopeful that it will be enough; I've just learned to try and keep my hopes in check these days. heh. :|
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on April 08, 2020, 07:18:41 PM
Stephenson-Siemens is up again.

Thanks to Isaaac for providing the hardware, and to James for coding and fixing bugs...
I'll try to put some easter eggs there ;)
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on April 09, 2020, 08:41:14 AM
The server does not seem to be up-to-date.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on April 09, 2020, 08:50:06 PM
Updated. I forgot to set up the automatic updater, now fixed.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Sirius on April 09, 2020, 08:59:25 PM
purr-fect 😸
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on April 09, 2020, 10:56:03 PM
Quote from: Vladki on April 08, 2020, 07:18:41 PMIsaaac

Please don't take this as a complaint - I am rather amused. Most misspellings are "Issac". I've never seen "Isaaac" before. It helps make up for some of the "Issac" instances. XD

Okay, so I'm really really hoping this game does work. Sounds like it's not failing so far, at least!
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on April 09, 2020, 11:55:56 PM
Not failing but quite a lot of desyncs, especially when someone is connecting, it kicks out the previous player.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on January 02, 2021, 11:04:59 PM
Stephenson-Siemens server is officially down.
- there were no regular players visiting
- the game was already in future, so no new vehicles, only obsolescence of older ones
- the nightly builds requires more recent glibc than available on the server
The last save is here: http://list.extended.simutrans.org/~simutrans/debug-saves/Stephenson-siemens.sve

If the library issue is solved I may run some other map in the future (e.g. wienna-krakow-budapest)
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: freddyhayward on January 02, 2021, 11:15:05 PM
Quote from: Vladki on January 02, 2021, 11:04:59 PM
Stephenson-Siemens server is officially down.
- there were no regular players visiting
- the game was already in future, so no new vehicles, only obsolescence of older ones
- the nightly builds requires more recent glibc than available on the server
The last save is here: http://list.extended.simutrans.org/~simutrans/debug-saves/Stephenson-siemens.sve

If the library issue is solved I may run some other map in the future (e.g. wienna-krakow-budapest)
I hope to see it again soon - it is good to have a smaller alternative to bridgewater-brunel, especially for new players and low-end PCs.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on January 02, 2021, 11:18:00 PM
It would be good to see this up and running again with the library issue solved. Are you not able to set up the server to compile its own binary?
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on January 03, 2021, 01:26:50 AM
Quote from: jamespetts on January 02, 2021, 11:18:00 PMIt would be good to see this up and running again with the library issue solved. Are you not able to set up the server to compile its own binary?
The server is provided by Isaac (thank you). And has some other duties too, so I did not want to install compiler, and devel libraries, etc... But if Isaac would not mind, I can set it up to build it's own nightlies.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on January 03, 2021, 03:39:47 AM
I'm hosting a game? See how much I pay attention! lol.

The only thing I use that server for is server backups, so the resources can be pretty freely used otherwise. I know it's not a fast server, but if it's fast enough to run a game, awesome :)
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: Vladki on January 04, 2021, 08:24:13 PM
Thanks to Isaac for upgrading the server to ubuntu 20.04, so we can run the pre-compiled nightlies by James.  Stephenson-Siemes is up again, but I'm looking forward to replace it with a new map.
Title: Re: Stephenson-Siemens
Post by: jamespetts on January 04, 2021, 09:01:48 PM
Quote from: Vladki on January 04, 2021, 08:24:13 PM
Thanks to Isaac for upgrading the server to ubuntu 20.04, so we can run the pre-compiled nightlies by James.  Stephenson-Siemes is up again, but I'm looking forward to replace it with a new map.

Excellent! A new map is probably a good idea so that people can start afresh. I suspect that you can afford to make the map a little bigger than the previous one.