Well, as some probably fully expected, I managed to totally blow things up here again, and I have no idea how

Using the automatic name generator. I create a crit, change its name to namegen, and put namegen in the short and long descriptions.

reload the area, mud goes down. Console shows it seg faulted and core dumps.

The last entry in the log file is:



And a core file appears in my /area directory. Changing the name, short, and long of the crit in the .are file brings the area back into some state where it can be loaded.

I tried creating a copy of every .txt file mentioned in the namegen section of reset.c, based on the namegen.txt file included with the codebase, but that doesn't work.

Anyone have any ideas? I promise, I didn't break it on purpose!

Kathi

OK, here's exactly what I did.

Created a crit, which has gold, thac0, and xp set to be automatically decided.

The crit is also a shopkeeper.

Created a set of text files, copies of the namegen.txt file that comes with the dist, which gives me:



mset the crit name to namegen
mset the crit short to namegen
mset the crit long to namegen
used instaroom to set the resets
saved the area
purged the room
reset area
boom, down with a core dump from a seg fault.

Kathi

Heya,

To try to track down the source of your problems, I've got a quick test I'd like to ask you to perform

If you only mset the mobiles name to namegen, and don't mset either the short, or the long descs, does it still core ?

Also, are you familiar with GDB (or some suitable debugger for your environment) ?

And just to double check, you are using namegen as opposed to namegen_something ?

If you are just using namegen, try repeating the test above using namegen_gr

Hi Tarl,

While I was talking about this with Samson in I3, I was thinking about the settings, because of something he said.

When I was getting the cores, name, short, and long we all set to namegen, but desc wasn't. I went and added namegen as the desc, and lo and behold, it works!

Having said that, if I try to use "namegen" as a string within other words in the short, long, or desc, it doesn't get parsed; Only if it's the sole word in any of those fields. It's hard to test it properly right now because of the proto bug.

Which I'd like to proudly mention I found and I absolutely didn't break it this time!!!

Once I get that bug patched, I'll try different combinations.

As far as debugging is concerned, what I know about compilers and c and the like is nil But if there's easy ways to grab the info you're looking for, just send me an idiot's guide, and I can send you back a paste of the results.

And yes, the problem with namegen did occur with namegen_gr instead of namegen. Damn, but I like that themed random names idea!

Kathi