On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Morten Liljeberg wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, jeremy jubenville wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > I just recieve the most peculiar error message that ended with > > an abort signal which shutdown the mud. > > The error is denoted in the syslog as follows: > > > > SYSERR: CHECKPOINT shutdown: tics not updated > > > > While i can understand the concept of shuting down the mud if the tics > > aren't updating themselves, i don't understand how it happened. Gdb > > told me absolutely nothing. My gut tells me that this was either a > > machine error or an OS error. Am i correct? > > > As far as i remember, this is a check for infinite loops. The server had > not completed one tick, before the next should start, so an infinite loop > is assumed, and the mud stuts down. > > --- > Morten Liljeberg > We at Zombiemud have had the same problem occur to us. We still have not found the problem. Yes, it is an infinite loop! If you find it, please email me because perhaps it's a similiar bug. Thanks in advance, Tom Dailey tgd@iglou.com Zombiemud IMP zombie.iglou.com 2150
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