Black Raven Dragoons

[Zancarius]

Hey guys,

I think I owe you all an apology, most especially Turus.

This last week, we discovered that an old game we used to enjoy but was locked out due to ridiculous DRM, later released for free, and then completely abandoned by Vivendi (jerks) has gained a small development community. This community discovered about two years ago that it was possible to circumvent the DRM and have since been working on extending the game's authentication systems with their own. Long story short, it's pretty awesome what they've accomplished.

Unfortunately, last night wasn't quite so awesome. Being as I wasn't able to get the game server running on Turus' machine, I elected to reinstall Wine (basically a compatibility layer that lets you run Windows apps on Linux) with a few options turned off in the hopes it would allow us to actually run the service and--possibly--get some 'goons involved in the action.

Then the build process froze. Unusually, it also took the entire system down with it which isn't supposed to happen--but it did--nor have I ever seen this happen before or since. I'm sure Turus might have additional details, but in short, the installation process broke something that shouldn't have been possible to break. I wasn't able to see anything conclusive, either, so it will forever remain a mystery what happened.

I also ruined a year's worth of uptime with a single emerge. How's that for breakage?

Anyway, Turus was able to get it up and running this morning. The web service wouldn't start in part due to unrelated updates performed over the course of the last year. I think additional updates I made broke certain libraries that Apache was pulling in. The problem is monkey-patched right now until I talk with Turus but should otherwise work just fine.

Sorry again, guys. If you were on TeamSpeak 3 last night and attempted to access the forums, I broke them both.

[MaxRile]

HAHAHAHA and ppl say im bad at breaking things

[Highgrade]

No sunder, people say you are GOOD at breaking things.

[Zancarius]

Ah yes, but only I could build a package and freeze an entire server.

(Note: I *think* there might be something wrong with the ebuild for Wine that resulted in processes forking to the point that the entire process table was full.)

[Grimblast]

What really went through Turus's mind when he heard the bad news: "My uptime, nooooooooooooooooooo!" *implode*

But seriously. Stuff happens. We got it back up in a day so it wasn't too bad. Gave us an opportunity to do a few things with it maintenance wise to alls well.

[Zancarius]

True. We had some libraries on the system that were in need of updates, and the only way to ensure they've been purged is a reboot.

Still, 1 year uptime on a system that's had a history of being plugged into UPSs that don't play nice and should, by all stretches of the imagination, have done something to the power supply is pretty darn amazing.

That libexpat issue is still kind of problematic, but I think it's tied to subversion. I'll show you what I mean later this week/weekend when you get some time. (We'll probably need to update the kernel sometime, too, but that bit always makes me nervous. You can break it this time!)

[Grimblast]

I noticed last night when I went to use TS that it asked for an update. Thal told me about what happened to Killem and the new version of TS's client doesn't seem to be backwards compatible so that tells me there must've been a major difference/change of some sort within their beta software. I will work on getting the newer version of TS up on the server but please be patient. A person only has so much time to work on things

I'll make a post when I have the newest version up on the server. In the meantime, don't update to the latest version yet or else you will lose access to TS until the server side is updated.