Xenithar

Alright, without changing anything, EXACTLY fifty minutes after starting the server and not a soul playing, the SQL errors started being logged. [code] 2015-10-18 23:27:34 SERVER STARTUP TIME: 0 minutes 6 seconds 2015-10-18 23:27:34 2015-10-18 23:27:34 2015-10-18 23:28:02 GameEvent 61 "Stormwind City - Stockades Jail Break" started. 2015-10-18 23:37:08 ERROR:Creature (GUIDLow: 15251) X: -2242.801025 Y: -2199.574707 (original) in grid[27,27]cell[12,13] instead grid[27,27]cell[12,14] 2015-10-18 23:38:01 GameEvent 61 "Stormwind City - Stockades Jail Break" removed. 2015-10-18 23:58:01 GameEvent 61 "Stormwind City - Stockades Jail Break" started. 2015-10-19 00:00:01 GameEvent 16 "Gurubashi Arena Booty Run" started. 2015-10-19 00:00:01 GameEvent 29 "Edge of Madness, Gri'lek" removed. 2015-10-19 00:07:34 2015-10-19 00:07:34 >> Flushed all ranking points 2015-10-19 00:07:34 2015-10-19 00:07:34 >> Loaded 0 Horde and 0 Ally honor standing definitions 2015-10-19 00:08:01 GameEvent 61 "Stormwind City - Stockades Jail Break" removed. 2015-10-19 00:17:20 ERROR:SQL: can not execute 'UPDATE account SET active_realm_id = ? WHERE id = ?' 2015-10-19 00:17:20 ERROR:SQL ERROR: Lost connection to MySQL server during query 2015-10-19 00:24:46 ERROR:SQL: can not execute 'UPDATE account SET last_ip = ? WHERE username = ?' 2015-10-19 00:24:46 ERROR:SQL ERROR: Lost connection to MySQL server during query 2015-10-19 00:24:46 ERROR:SQL: can not execute 'UPDATE realmlist SET population = ? WHERE id = ?' 2015-10-19 00:24:46 ERROR:SQL ERROR: Lost connection to MySQL server during query 2015-10-19 00:25:00 ERROR:SQL: can not execute 'UPDATE account SET active_realm_id = ? WHERE id = ?' 2015-10-19 00:25:00 ERROR:SQL ERROR: Lost connection to MySQL server during query 2015-10-19 00:25:50 ERROR:SQL: can not execute 'UPDATE account SET active_realm_id = ? WHERE id = ?' 2015-10-19 00:25:50 ERROR:SQL ERROR: Lost connection to MySQL server during query [/code] I logged in and out a few times after midnight and that is what happened. Something is happening that within roughly one hour, causes the SQL connections to go bonkers. I will continue working on this with this knowledge. I am simply posting it here as a record for myself as well as for others.

That may be true, but just today while I was troubleshooting the SQL connection issue I increased MySQL's connection count from the default 100 to 1024 and the bot began working. It also fixed the SQL errors completely until the server had been running for an hour. I am still researching it, but for the past year AHBot has been dead. Increasing the connection limit appeared to have fixed it. I will continue this along with the SQL connection research.

Yes, this is still bugged. It does the animation one round, then the next round a bunch of damage is applied.

Alright, Max recompiled 0.20 and I tried the quest again. As soon as you attempt to use the "Eye of Acherus control mechanism", you get "Interrupted" and the server crashes. This prevents DKs of all races and factions from doing more than five minutes of gameplay and traps them in the floating fortress with The Lich King.

You know I wonder if this is just on the Covenant servers. I seem to recall this working on my private testing server before.

I do not believe it was removed. I believe it was simply no longer dropped. I never recall a player losing an item they earned through combat because Blizzard removed it. Nerfed it, yes, but not removed.

Antz I am not sure. My RAID array had that bad disk (see my forum thread) and I won't even know if WD will replace the BRAND NEW disk until Tuesday. Once I get my disk I can install XenServer and get my systems back online.

I wanted one of those so bad when I was a kid. I loved the way they rigged that old lady's chair. Looked like a fun ride! Anyway, I am home again, server is booting (yay RAID10!) and I will be provisioning my VM's now. Do you need help with this or are we good now?

Sorry I was busy, and will be out of town until Friday. I know for a fact you could unlearn the LW skills in vanilla. I do not remember BS unlearning, but I wa snot a warrior and did not focus on BS. There should be NO GOSSIP to learn anything like this. There should be gossip to unlearn the three LW skills. I will check my book when I get back. I have my strategy guide from 2004 or 2005. *EDIT* I do know that you CAN drop BS all together and re-level it, and then learn another spec. So when dropping LW or BS, you should also drop your specialization. *UPDATE* I did a quick search. Just after BC was released they added unlearning. I must be wrong on the LW. The link below states it. I do remember unlearning an entire profession in vanilla to change specializations. I do not remember how long ago that was... [url=http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_2.0.3]Patch 2.0.3[/url]

Nuke, I use Valgrind. It is one of the best in the Linux/Unix/BSD world. I do not know of something comparable on Windows that is free, open-source, or similar. As for the versioning, this is why I have continually warned against staying bleeding-edge with ACE and the like. Unless you run Gentoo or something similar, you are NOT going to have the latest ACE stuff. Binary distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) update with new releases and possibly once between releases with a backport. This means that staying bleeding-edge can cause some issues in every world except Windows. Sure, you can just grab a binary downlaod in Windows and further bloat the install, but this is not how Linux works. I believe some of our issues would go away if we fix them and then choose a version of ACE to stick with for a period of time before doing a planned upgrade, which should come after testing. Kind of like an extended service release (ESR) like so much software does now.

Your link contains good info, but we're using ACE, not pure C++, so we are creating and terminating threads using ACE if I recall correctly. The information in your link would have to be applied to the ACE library or we'd have to dump ACE for threading. I am not sure how we would use CreateThread() alongside the ACE function to handle threads. Maybe it can be done and I am wrong, but I normally only do pure C++ for things like threading, so I know very little about ACE and threads. *EDIT* Also, threading DOES appear broken to an extent. I had been working on realmd not showing realms before my server died and I figured out that the ACE functions we call to create the threads were NOT working. They would create a thread and instantly exit it, resulting in no servers being shown. This is under Debian, not Windows.

Why would this not affect the Linux build though? Seems odd. I am finishing my install now. Hopefully I will be up by Friday. No time anymore. Company is growing and I am being monopolized.

This is not the case for me. Is this just a Windows thing?

Will this affect pets and such? Currently our pets are hosed in major ways (hunter, lock, all of them!) and warlock pets do not regenerate mana and hunter pets won't regenerate focus. This results in a "your pet is in combat" message if you attempt to use a pet skill which uses focus or mana.