Race bugs (from server logs).

[chiefwhosm]

Hi,

These all happen with custom maps. However once they've occured, racemode is totally broken even for the official DM Race maps. To easily replicate them for yourself, then try either of the following map centers maps: chocolatehighway, ExplosiveJumps. There are of course others, but those are two that always cause this.

1) On map change all you get is a black screen with the chat window (and console). You can still talk to people and the console states the map successfully loaded. However it never does, and it has caused the racemode to break. The only fix is to change to a different game mode, then change back to race. The error logged for this sort of bug is:

ERROR: ...erver/mods/deathmatch/resourcecache/race/racemap.lua:141: C stack overflow

Not always, but often it's preceded by the following:

ERROR: ...r/mods/deathmatch/resourcecache/race/race_server.lua:306: attempt to index global 'g_CurrentRaceMode' (a nil value)

2) Sometimes the map vote manager stops working. This also leads to the black screen described above. But instead of changing the map, it just starts a new vote, again and again.

ERROR: ...tch/resourcecache/votemanager/votemanager_server.lua:270: attempt to index local 'optionTable' (a nil value)

For each vote after this, the maps on attempting to load appear to be reporting the following:

ERROR: ...r/mods/deathmatch/resourcecache/race/race_server.lua:35: attempt to concatenate a nil value

I think the two may be similar bugs, where a vote is made for a map that causes the C stack overflow, and this in turn breaks the votemanager. But that's just speculation.

Chief