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This is a problem that has been plaguing my server for quite a while now. Whenever the server changes maps, usually due to RTV, it will just crash before it switches, leaving users stuck on the Server is changing levels screen with 3 bars. This doesn't happen every day and it isn't always caused by RTV. There are also no errors in any of the logs around the time it happens. I recently installed Accelerator on my server hoping that it would give me more insight on the problem. Good news is that it did, bad news is that I don't understand anything it shows.

Here is the crash dump: https://crash.limetech.org/kdtxawbzlz52

Also my server runs on Windows.

Thanks!

Edit: This crash seems to also happen when switching from certain maps. Another crash dump: https://crash.limetech.org/kotnwcqk5hm2

Edit2: Removed some maps that seemed to have caused the crash. Server is also now on a Linux machine. Will wait for more crashes.

[Phaiz]

Does it crash only when changing to a specific map(s)?

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Originally Posted by Phaiz Does it crash only when changing to a specific map(s)?

It doesn't crash when changing to a certain map but it does seem to crash more frequently when changing from certain maps.

[Smity]

check if the map you want to change have on your /tf/maps and on your FastDL website(if have)

recommend you to use downloader plugin. easy for newbies and simple to use

[depthbomb]

After moving to a new, Linux server, the crash still happens albeit much less frequently. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the map it changes to or the map it is changing from. It just seems to happen at random when changing maps.

New crash dump from about 20 minutes ago: https://crash.limetech.org/2lj2hqumlhm4

[asherkin]

Someone (you?) linked this crash report on IRC and I took a poke at it:

Originally Posted by IRC [15:02:07] <island55> asherkin: https://crash.limetech.org/2lj2hqumlhm4 [15:08:31] <asherkin> island55: ok. [15:10:10] <island55> thanks for diagnosing the report as you usually do [15:10:47] <asherkin> np [16:00:45] <asherkin> island55: the entity's TOUCHLINK linked list is corrupt, one of the nextLink ptrs is bad (looks like it was null, but the list is meant to loop around to the root) - the cause of the bug isn't particularly obvious, I'm guessing it only happens when the only thing the player entity is touching is a trigger_hurt as the map changes (although it might just be "the map changes with a player in a trigger_hurt"). It is a fairly obvious game bug, probably easy enough to work around in a plugin. That'll be $40 the hour of reverse engineering and debugging kthx, which includes your "IRC regular" discount at 50%.

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Originally Posted by asherkin Someone (you?) linked this crash report on IRC and I took a poke at it:

Thanks for the info. I have found a workaround to prevent the crash.