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Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:45 pm**

Ever since i brought my board back online, i'm having lots of issues with system crashes.

Basically, the board will just fault, and after 30 seconds restart.

The log simply reports an access violation in c:\wgserv\wgserver.exe.

The errors i'm getting looks like this:

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The Underground BBS  &#40;05179009&#41;
Server Version&#58; 3.30
User 6 of 256  channel 07  User-ID "Bank"  status 3

Online level 6, state 3, substate 0
MSG&#58;elwta1-m.mcv/56
Module "Tele-Arena"
Input "a"

The Underground BBS  &#40;05179009&#41;
Server Version&#58; 3.30
User -1 of 256  User-ID "Topog"  status 3

Online level 6, state 0, substate 1
MSG&#58;elwta1-m.mcv/231
Module "Menuing System"
Input ""

Here's one with some extra detail.

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WORLDGROUP EXCEPTION @ 00F4F3FD &#40;see "Routines" section below&#41;
Recorded 8/5/2012 3&#58;23&#58;58
Access Violation. Attempt to read from&#58; 103ff28
AX=FFFFFFD1 BX=1289 CX=45D3F8 DX=104009C SI=000003E0 DI=00F551E4
BP=0012E894 SP=0012E87C IP=00F4F3FD Flags=00010296
CS=0000001B SS=00000023
Current IP==>8B 4C C2 04 8D 0C 49 A1 C4 50 F5 00 8A 54 D8 01 

The Underground BBS  &#40;05179009&#41;
Server Version&#58; 3.30
User -1 of 256  User-ID "Topog"  status 3

Online level 6, state 3, substate 0
MSG&#58;elwta1-m.mcv/386
Module "Tele-Arena"
Input "ex"

Theyre not all from TA either.

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WORLDGROUP EXCEPTION @ 00F2549F &#40;see "Routines" section below&#41;
Recorded 8/2/2012 21&#58;59&#58;25
Access Violation. Attempt to read from&#58; 103ffb8
AX=0000 BX=FFFFFFFF CX=104009C DX=FFFFFFD1 SI=00000100 DI=00000028
BP=0012E940 SP=0012E908 IP=00F2549F Flags=00010206
CS=0000001B SS=00000023
Current IP==>FF B4 D1 94 00 00 00 E8 8A 7C 00 00 83 C4 08 33 

The Underground BBS  &#40;05179009&#41;
Server Version&#58; 3.30
User 256 of 256  User-ID "WorldLink Calling Account"  status 240

Online level 2, state 28, substate -9876
MSG&#58;elwta1-m.mcv/-1
Module "WorldLink Transfer"
Input "c"

Though.. Looking at this, i do see that the MSG: is always elwta1-m.msg, which is TA.... Hrmmmm.

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:54 pm**

Looking closer at this, before i had TA1 running, i was getting access violations on elwta2-m.mcv So the issue does appear to be with the TA engine!

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:05 pm**

When did the board go down and when did it come back online? What could have changed between then and now? What are the time periods in each case?

Just odd that this is happening of a sudden. How often is this happening?

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:41 pm**

Questman wrote:When did the board go down and when did it come back online? What could have changed between then and now? What are the time periods in each case?

Just odd that this is happening of a sudden. How often is this happening?

Sorry if it was unclear, i meant since i brought the board back from retirement.

Its been doing it since late June, when i first brought it up on wg3.3, but shortly after i brought it online, i added the demo version of TA2, seems that the first error logged was from right after i added ta2.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:16 pm**

VeNoM wrote:Looking closer at this, before i had TA1 running, i was getting access violations on elwta2-m.mcv So the issue does appear to be with the TA engine!

enable concecated menu commands so you can see the exact input when it crashed that way it can be traced to being either in the takick real time kicker or something from actual player input.

first crash happened right before the player attacked so it didnt get a chance to run the routine, second was during an experience check, and the 3rd was before a spell was cast, im curious, enter the game and type "attack" or "a" without a target and the same thing with cast, rule out a parsing error.

for example, before you could type edit by itself and boom offline.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2012 11:54 pm**

tried a few commands that should have arguments, like attack, and they all worked correctly.

no crashes.

Posted: **Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:20 am**

VeNoM wrote:tried a few commands that should have arguments, like attack, and they all worked correctly.

no crashes.

ok im gonna reinstall the one i used when i originally made the ta1 data for ta2 and see what i can come up with.

you using your own customs or the ones i gave rick.

Posted: **Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:20 am**

Sorry for the long silence.

I solved my problem, but im not 100% certain of the cause. I suspect resources.

I was running the board at full 255 lines, Long story short, i found that if i run at about 245 or so, it runs perfectly. I have since lowered to the 200 range, since i really dont get _that_ much traffic. I used to run my board on 40 lines and never had a problem.

Anyway, seemed related to the number of lines i had open. Maybe my VM doesnt have enough memory (512M, windows xp) to handle 255 lines.

Posted: **Sat Nov 03, 2012 4:05 am**

VeNoM wrote:Sorry for the long silence.

I solved my problem, but im not 100% certain of the cause. I suspect resources.

I was running the board at full 255 lines, Long story short, i found that if i run at about 245 or so, it runs perfectly. I have since lowered to the 200 range, since i really dont get _that_ much traffic. I used to run my board on 40 lines and never had a problem.

Anyway, seemed related to the number of lines i had open. Maybe my VM doesnt have enough memory (512M, windows xp) to handle 255 lines.

also, it doesnt install properly with the proper resources for the btreive engine too.

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