HC_Official

A sensible person might conclude that the problem is with the DCS build and not our missions / scripts causing this crash on the servers

I am hoping for a patch tomorrow that fixes this ...... if it doesnt that is a major MP ruining bug with 3 failed patches ... ... think that will defo be time to revert the servers back to 3 builds ago when MP actually worked

develop is the correct branch to grab ?

thanks will do, do you think you could edit page one of this thread to indicate which is the latest SLMOD build to use? and or maybe your sig as well Just so people can know which version is current one to get, might save you some time answering posts like the one I made

seeing this a lot in log 2020-11-16 22:26:10.372 DEBUG LuaGUI: onSimulationFrame [string "C:\Users\jesus_christ\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta_server\Scripts/net/Slmodv7_6/SlmodStats.lua"]:1643: attempt to get length of local 'allHits' (a nil value) 2020-11-16 22:26:11.211 INFO LuaNET: SLMOD INFO: beginning slmod.updateActiveUnits

again 2020.11.16_19.41.CA.dcs.zip

sunday busy day for our server ..... so its a crashtastic sunday for a lot of flyers out there dcs.log-20201115-152010.zip

again dcs.log-20201115-151616.zip

and again dcs.log-20201115-144203.zip

same here 2020-11-15 13:13:43.386 INFO NET: accepting connection from 90.108.137.81:54448 2020-11-15 13:13:43.392 INFO NET: adding client[12] 2020-11-15 13:13:43.442 INFO NET: added client[12] name=RogerPluD'Bierre addr=90.108.137.81:54448 2020-11-15 13:13:43.449 DEBUG NET: ServerInfo json size is: raw = 5141, gzip = 1384. 2 chunks. 2020-11-15 13:13:43.504 INFO EDCORE: try to write dump information dcs.log-20201115-131344.zip

is dcs.log still working ok for you tho ?

on dedicated server sadly , you cannot get the initiator at all which is a bummer :-(

Some times with this "on player connect" crash a few different thing happen 1. Games dies instantly, log just stops dead in its tracks 2. You get a partial message or two after hte failure 3. You get a full dump that manages to get ziped up

and again, this time I have a client log and the server pooping itself logs this was just after server started was doing some testing (so I was the first client connecting) client.dcs.log dcs.log-20201113-161711.zip

feel free to post an attempt fixed dcs.exe if you want us to try using it and give you feedback , we (as in us public server hosters) seem to be able to cause crashes pretty easily at the moment

yeah it looks like just before crash last thing that happens is a new client connects, then DCS poops itself :-(

more logs dcs.log-20201107-172756.zip

@thornx in you incomplete log you posted above .......... were the couple of lines above where you started pasting your log a connection by any chance ?

Various locations on C drive, search for them

Server Hosters: Note that each time the server craps itself it will create a large *.hdmp file, *.dmp and also some *.mdmp files .... these will take a lot of hard drive space you might want to delete them , it was at 17Gigabytes on my server

and again dcs.log-20201106-192734.zip

Yes indeed I have made those changes to my autoexec.cfg config file

I think the bar for being a DCS open beta tester is pretty high, I applied to be one and didn't even get a reply back. I have been testing software since 1998 as my full time job, so I do know a bit about how to do it I wish the dcs.logs gave out a bit more info that might help ED track this down quickly

I have fixed the single script that was generating an error in the log, I wonder can ED maybe look at the 1,00s of other error messages generated by DCS in the log file now (even before MP is up and running)? This crash best as I can tell has nothing to do with scripts or mods (as I have removed SLMOD from the server) It is like something is wrong in the net connecting code when a new player joins a server It might be time for ED to start to perform some testing on DCS builds in Multiplayer, even some basic sanity testing might be useful, just a suggestion mind you

you are not alone Alpenwolf, last 2 patches do not work in MP properly, I hope ED will maybe start doing MP dedicated server testing before releasing builds