server crashes

[Ememjr]

my server crashes almost every night, and i read somewhere tht it had to do with a timer or something and can no longer find the post,
if anyone else remembers it can you point me in the correct direction

[Jabantiz]

I do not recall an issue with timers causing a crash. Does this crash on its own or is some one on it? If some one is on it are they using content dev commands, mainly the /reload or /repop?

[Ememjr]

no just if i leave it up and running no client s connecte

[Ememjr]

so i was able to get it to crash while in debugger here is whee it stops at

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void __cdecl _free_base (void * pBlock)
{

        int retval = 0;


        if (pBlock == NULL)
            return;

        RTCCALLBACK(_RTC_Free_hook, (pBlock, 0));

        retval = HeapFree(_crtheap, 0, pBlock); //>>>>>>>>>> the  arrow is pointing to this line 
        if (retval == 0)
        {
            errno = _get_errno_from_oserr(GetLastError());
        }
}

[tyrbo]

Would probably be helpful to post the full stack trace.

[Ememjr]

ok i will next time it does it in debug mode

[Ememjr]

so it didn't crash again but after a restart and the server just sitting idle the log starts getting these

idle.JPG

[Cynnar]

Don't know about the lua addtimer command error, but the attempt to call a nil value I think is struct related. When it happens on my server USUALLY there is a pet command button that is rapidly auto clicking itself. Sometimes my toon can't decide if he wants to sit or stand when I get the nil value call.

Logging off and back on will fix it some times, but if it's a new client, and structs are not setup, then it doesn't.

[Ememjr]

all i did was start the server and let it sit, i tried to find where attempt to call a nil was located in code and could not find it

[Cynnar]

It's not my area of expertise, but if I understand correctly the call has already been made, a nil value was returned, and the server is expecting a something not nil.

[Jabantiz]

"attempt to call nil" usually refers to when the server makes a call to a script but that function is not in the script. Most often you will see it when declining or deleting a quest whose script doesn't have the declined or deleted function in them.

Did this happen right away or did it take time? Do you have zones that start up even with no one on? are you running the server on windows or Linux?

If it took time to show up and no client ever connected it seems like memory corruption but I have never seen it on my local server or the emu server.

[Ememjr]

it always takes time to show up,i have frostfang up when no one on and i am running on windows

[Ememjr]

here is the call stack when i get LUA addtimer command error: time is not set

call to nil.JPG