It looks like its a bug in the authentication system. This is what happened:
I am in the process of publishing the next release of my mod, so I'm doing a lot of connecting/disconnecting from my test server. During one of these connections, I left the game to enter the controls setup menu. If you've done this while watching the server log, you'll see lots of overflow messages from client XXXX , and your connection dies a painful death if you stay in setup too long which is what happened in this case. As it turned out, I exited the game once I was done setting up my controls. The server continued to run however. When I tried to reconnect to my server, I started getting the "CD key in use" message. Eventually, as a wild guess, I stopped the server and looked in the 'auth' folder and noticed a .dat file which had a timestamp which coincided with time the problems started so I deleted it and restarted the server. Voila! The problem went away. Now I suppose that this might just be a coincidence in that I restarted the server at the same time the duplicate key (if it really existed) went offline. On the other hand, maybe there's something to restarting a server and deleting errant auth .dat files. At 12:17 AM 9/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: >This is pissing me off. I've been trying to test some new code on my server >and I'm getting the "Your CD Key is in use" message whenever I try to >connect. I haven't copied the CD, nor lent it out to anyone. What's going >here and what can be done? > >_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
