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So i've coded and ran Distorted Illusions/Asgardian nightmare for almost 8 years now, always on a redhat or debian linux(was using dune hosting). Now i've put up a Ubuntu 9.04 linux on one of my spare cpu's(trying switch eventually to it) and am getting seg faults all of a sudden. The seg faults occur during the reading of the area list, it gets to the second area then sends a SIGSERV and trys to load everything up again. Eventually it trys to load every area from the list with the error: Too many open files, Area not loaded, then goes on to the next area on the list and continues to the last of the areas, than seg faults again. I've looked at the load functions for the area's and can't find any problem, also looked at the memory functions and can't find any problem. I was wondering if anyone knew any problems or changes/differances with Ubuntu 9.04 compared to Redhat that would cause this problem. I don't know if maybe the area list needs to be formatted differantly for Ubuntu or what... Any ideas would be appreciated.

So i've coded and ran
Distorted Illusions/Asgardian nightmare for almost 8 years
now, always on a redhat or debian linux(was using dune
hosting). Now i've put up a Ubuntu 9.04 linux on one of my
spare cpu's(trying switch eventually to it) and am getting
seg faults all of a sudden.

The seg faults occur during the reading of the area list, it
gets to the second area then sends a SIGSERV and trys to
load everything up again. Eventually it trys to load every
area from the list with the error: Too many open files, Area
not loaded, then goes on to the next area on the list and
continues to the last of the areas, than seg faults again.

I've looked at the load functions for the area's and can't
find any problem, also looked at the memory functions and
can't find any problem. I was wondering if anyone knew any
problems or changes/differances with Ubuntu 9.04 compared to
Redhat that would cause this problem. I don't know if maybe
the area list needs to be formatted differantly for Ubuntu
or what...

Any ideas would be appreciated.

When asking for help, paragraphs do wonders...

I don't have any specific info for your problem, but try
tracking down the line the segfault occurs. Also, posting
more debug info would help. You've provided very little to
go on here.

Good luck,
-Jess

Eventually it trys to load every area from the list with
the error: Too many open files, Area not loaded

Do a Google for 'Ubuntu too many open files'. There is
probably a setting somewhere in a file you need to change. Try
Ubuntu forum or IRC.

What compiler are you running?
$ gcc --version




(Comment added by Tyche on Fri Jan 1 18:46:32 2010)

It also sounds like you've got a SIGSEV signal handler that attempts to continue which is always always always a bad thing. Disable the handler or better yet delete the code entirely.

I've actually had to downgrade back to gcc-3.4, it can compile under 4 but anything over that and i would have to go back and fix years worth of code for a clean compile. This code has been through the hands of differant coders during the 90's and early 2000's before i took over coding dutys, sloppy coding practice has left me with either a choice to overhaul everything or keep with a earlier gcc version.