I run a CSS surfing server (on windows server 2003) with mani admin (via sourceMM) and eventscripts (and the es_tools addon) along with many custom eventscripts. Last night my server mysteriously crashed and would not start back up. I spoke with one of the players who was in my server at the time, and someone allegedly said they were going to crash it; shortly after the server went down. It now refuses to start back up, and the final console lines in this screen shot are what it says before crashing and then attempting to restart via my keepalive batch script:
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/364/46784441qg3.jpg I know these errors have been seen before (via google searches), but what really intrigues me is what followed. Thinking I may have a bad memory stick I copied the entire srcds directory to another computer hoping it might work, but the exact same thing happens. Then just for kicks I decide to try running the hldsupdatetool, first of all it turns out I was not running the most recent version of the srcds, so it attempts to update it (I'm thinking that may have been part of the problem). It begins to update, but what I find odd is that the percentages are above 100%, quite far past 100% in some cases; I cannot remember the exact numbers here but it was quite large. Now I am very perplexed as to what the problem might be, so I decided to run the updater again, but this time specify the -verify_all flag. I caught the percentages this time, and it starts verifying at 0.00% and stays there for a while, then abruptly jumps to 154300.00% and then finishes at 348441500.00%, after completion reporting my hlds installation is up to date. It would appear that something has been seriously compromised and/or corrupted within my srcds installation somewhere, but I am not sure exactly what. What leads me to believe that this was an intentional act of malice is that my server was running just fine for weeks prior to this incident, then last night without me changing anything, my server is totally broken. I am currently in the process of starting with a fresh install and porting all my settings over to the new installation (as well as updating a few of the plugins which I now know were outdated versions, perhaps this will help in the future too) hoping to fix things. I am really just wondering though if anyone has heard of anything like this before, or is aware of any known exploits or vulnerabilities which exist/may have existed in older versions of the srcds. I am trying my fresh install on version 95 which I believe is the most recent version. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
