Today's Outage

Discussion in 'Main' started by Oreo910, Oct 30, 2012.

Today's Outage

Discussion in 'Main' started by Oreo910, Oct 30, 2012.

  1. Oreo910

    Oreo910 Community Leader

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    All,

    Early this morning, the server shit its pants. No one could join without being disconnected or timing out. Ghost rebooted the server, and all seemed to be well. After the first game ended, the server crashed, then after the second, and the third. For most of the day we couldn't finish a round without a crash.

    I completely wiped our server and reinstalled it on gameservers. Failing that I removed it from Rconnet and re added it. The primary side effect of that will be a loss of ranks as tracked by Rconnet. At this point, things seem to be back to normal. Apologies for the outage and thanks to those who stuck around and helped me troubleshoot.
     
  2. GhostSheets

    GhostSheets Opus Eponymous

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    Nice work. Any work back from GameServers on the source of the issue yet? /coffee
     
  3. Oreo910

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    Not at this point, but I think the issue was Rconnet anyway.
     
  4. GhostSheets

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    Is the lag issue related, or do you have any way of knowing?
     
  6. Oreo910

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    I've shut the server down for now. Until I hear from one of the parties that provide us the server and its tools, its better to stay offline than to become synonymous with crashing at the end of every round.
     
  7. Kowlefe

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    It stopped crashing for a few rounds about an hour ago when I was on
     
  8. Oreo910

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    its back up running from config files only. This means no ingame commands and no plugins. I've set it to regular hardcore (sorry I didn't remove the minimap) and as closely as possible to our old maplist, tickets, and vehicle spawns. Lets see how this goes so we can try to narrow it to either rconnet or the server itself.

    Thanks for everyone's patience.
     
  9. Oreo910

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    Still crashing with only the config files. This rules out Rcon (thank god), but I've still yet to hear back from gameservers about anything. Ghost, there is an option to "move" the server to another location. Would that do the same thing as a full wipe?
     
  10. GhostSheets

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    I'm not sure about the move thing. I'd check the GS forums for info before pulling that trigger.

    Glad it's not rcon though!