Re: [CODE] SYSERR: CHECKPOINT shutdown: tics not updated. (Infinite loop; suspected)

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 09/20/98


On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Mike Carpenter wrote:

>I have seen this before and I'm not quite sure what is happening.
>This message I receive:
>
>[CODE] SYSERR: CHECKPOINT shutdown: tics not updated. (Infinite loop;
>suspected)

Um, you have an inifite loop perhaps?

>occurs only on occasion and I'm curious if anyone has seen this and
>what they did to fix it.  It reboots my mud

It's something you've done, in all likelyhood, so no one will know.

Solution:

        Take the abort() supplied core dump file into GDB, do a 'backtrace'
and the #0 function should be your problem.  If you aren't in UNIX, the
debugger in Win95 should engage.

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