Have you run it through a debugger to check the stack when it crashes? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam "amckern" Mckern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Re: FireGameEvent, kickid, ServerExecute, crash
> are your runing the lattest build of ded server, and > have you thought of adding a break point? > > > --- Mattie Casper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Events are caused within events all the time--- > > people use events to do all > > sorts of things: kick players, make people swap > > teams, teamkill punishment, etc. > > Even if server event reentrance is a problem, we > > need some Valve documentation > > saying this is forbidden or dangerous. > > > > To clarify three points: > > 1. I'm not interested in specifically kicking a > > player. I'm interested in doing > > X during an event where X is anything the > > administrator wants. So if he wants to > > kick a player that's his thing. I, personally, am > > not trying to kick anyone > > during an event. I'm letting people run semi-special > > config files during an > > event. > > 2. The crash doesn't just happen when plugin code > > specifically kicks someone. It > > can happen when a player is kicked via some > > administrative plugin, by the > > console, etc. It just needs to happen at the around > > the time an event calls > > ServerExecute. > > 3. The example below is the smallest example I made > > to reproduce the problem. > > I'm no newbie to coding-- I've considered all sorts > > of workarounds. Like > > scheduling things independently via GameFrame, > > avoiding the ServerExecute, etc. > > Unfortunately, these alternatives are > > substandard/messy and, really, I just need > > someone at Valve to say "this is a bug, we'll fix > > it" or "ServerExecute during > > an event is unsupported because of X and we'll > > document it as such going > > forward". If I've missed existing documentation to > > this effect, I'm hoping > > someone on the list can point me to it. (Educated > > guesses stated as if they were > > fact won't help me, though.) > > > > Thanks, > > -Mattie > > > > > > cheeseh wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I am guessing that when you kick a player another > > event is triggered > > that tells that the player was kicked/left the > > server. You cannot have > > two events fire inside each other, I am taking this > > from the old "net > > message" code that was from HL1, you could not have > > two messages start > > before they end. > > > > Instead of kicking the player there, try raising a > > flag (try storing a > > global boolean variable and the player id) and check > > it on startframe > > (or GameFrame () as it is now in HL2 I think) when > > the flag is true, > > kick the stored player id, then set the flag to > > false. In the event code > > replace it with setting the boolean to true and > > setting the playerid to > > the userid.----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mattie Casper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:25 AM > > Subject: FireGameEvent, kickid, ServerExecute, crash > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've found what seems, for me, to be a really > > annoying bug in CSS (and > > > probably mods). The following problem happens > > regardless of whether you use > > > IGameEventListener or IGameEventListener2. > > > > > > My Windows server crashes 98% of the time with the > > following code in a > > > listener/plugin: > > > > > > > > > void CEmptyServerPlugin::FireGameEvent( IGameEvent > > * event ) > > > { > > > const char * name = event->GetName(); > > > if (FStrEq(name, "player_changename")) > > > { > > > if(tester_cvar.GetInt()==1) > > > { > > > Msg("Kicking ya.\n"); > > > int userid = event->GetInt("userid"); > > > char szMessage[1024]; > > > sprintf(szMessage, "kickid %d Go > > away.\n", userid); > > > engine->ServerCommand(szMessage); > > > if (tester2_cvar.GetInt()==1) > > > { > > > // Crashes the server > > > engine->ServerExecute(); > > > } > > > } > > > } > > > } > > > > > > Basically, this silly code causes a player to get > > kicked immediately when he > > > tries to change his name. He certainly does get > > kicked, but the server crashes > > > immediately after. > > > > > > This is just the sample reproduction code, but the > > problem shows itself at a > > > much deeper point in my EventScripts plugin when > > users are kicked in the > > > middle of an event. It can happen at times > > regardless of whether the event > > > handler is doing the kicking (i.e. another plugin > > or user could be kicking the > > > player while my event handlers are firing). I > > believe it is a timing or > > > threading issue because if I place a Windows > > Sleep(100) after the above > > > ServerExecute call, the crash usually doesn't > > happen. > > > > > > Avoiding ServerExecute() is not really an option > > for me because I truly need > > > the command (not necessarily kick) executed > > immediately (typically an exec of > > > a cfg file). Regardless, the documentation places > > no caveats on when > > > ServerExecute() can be called, so I haven't been > > afraid to do so when needed. > > > > > > Anyone have any recommendations or thoughts here? > > > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > -Mattie > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view > > the list archives, please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > http://ammahls.com > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Make Yahoo! your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
