...... I have nothing to say to your fix. I wasn't even aware that those two command line options existed. Interesting that a joystick and IPX would have been causing issues.
Nice troubleshooting. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Frederic Breitwieser < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you again for all your help. > > I used memtest86+. The fact that it failed everything except one really > old > Compaq DL580 puzzled me. I find it hard to believe I have 37 defective > servers and desktops. It even failed memory in a brand-new, just opened, > Dell R210 with a Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3400 series processor, that arrived > this past Friday. > > So, something isn't right there. > > Anyway, because of this, I put all of the hardware back to its original > state, motherboards and memory, and kept at it. > > I got it to work with this command line: > > h...@d7 -] screen -dmS DODSERVER /var/hlds/server/hlds_run -game dod > -binary > ./hlds_i686 +maxplayers 31 +map dod_flash -nojoy -noipx +port 27015 +ip > <public IP> > > Without either -nojoy or -noipx, boom. With both in place, it runs fine. > We tested last night with 17-18 players and everything worked as one would > expect it to. > > Nothing on our network(s) run IPX, and in fact that protocol is turned off > on the Cisco switches. > > I really have no idea why a server would be looking for a joystick but > maybe > there's something unique about the Dell 1750 hardware that resides in the > I/O space of an audio controller or joystick controller that confuses hlds. > These 1750's we have all have the DRAC remote management board and the > PERC4 > raid controllers, maybe they sit there? > > It's also possible that Centos 5.4 thinks it found a joystick port when > there isn't one, and that made the HLDS server software unhappy. I didn't > get that far yet, once I got it working I called around and we went right > into testing. > > Anyway, that's the update. Strange, no? > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
