Possible Login Server Bug
There is a thread going on in the General Forum regarding this issue. (http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22521) It was suggested that we put it here. I'm copying many of the relevant posts here:
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Thanks Dralanna, hopefully this will catch some attention now.
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I'd like to note that every account that the survey has come up on and I selected "Yes" to the question "Is this thing on" is now fixed and immune to the bug.
This is definitely survey related. If they could just do a round of survey's for people to answer or stop them all the way it would solve this problem. |
Anyone seen this? I am still very much affected by this as I have been for a year now, and OOC is full nightly cursing 3SE bug, so I'm not the only one.
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I'd like to note something here. Last night I was one of the rare few who was on when the login servers came back up. When they did I started logging in and was extremely surprised when all of my characters logged in on the first go. This is something that hasn't happened.
I was thrilled, I assumed that during this down time someone had addressed this issue, but to make sure it wasn't just an amazing coinky dink I logged in and out a total of 13 times and every single time I got in fine. So I go to bed and get up this morning to find that it's back. I tried to remember what was different. The one thing I noticed is that not a whole lot of the servers had reattached to the login server. So there is a possibility that one server name or number of servers in the list is directly tied with the survey. Anywho, there appears to be a missing X variable along with the survey one. Hopefully someone will catch this soon. |
so for about a month straight I have not been able to log into my account I have spent one day counting about 150 - 250 log in attemps and every single of them got the SSSE crash and I have no been able to log in for a month straight how I am still here and still wanting to play is a mystery to me I should have just gone to SoD because they never had a log in issue but I would like to try something a lot better then there
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150-250? I've never come close to touching that and I've been dealing with this issue for over a year. 30-40 I've done, but that was top end and I've always eventually gotten in. You might consider the possibility that it isn't the same issue as the above posted.
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Y'all are way more patient than I am. If I can't get through after 3 tries, I'm off finding something else to do (read: I switch my server to minilogin tee hee hee).
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What is minilogin? This bug is driving me bonkers.
Also, has anyone figured out how to filter out this particular packet with a firewall? I something alluding to it in the thread, but nothing definitive. |
To answer xulok's question concerning minilogin, it's a standalone login server you would have on your local pc that allows access to a standalone eqemu server that you have on your network. When this bug pops up for me ( as it does all the time ) I just log into my own world and play around for a bit, as to your other question, I have no idea if one's firewall could filter this packet out, my quess is that it can't be done with the run of the mill FW, probly need some solid FW software to do this with.
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Is it Sony code that is sending the packet or is it community code?
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I just changed the eqlsUIConfig.ini file section below to Show=0 and it fixed the problem for me after trying to log in 20 times or so.
[PollWindow] INIVersion=1 XPos640x480=0 XPos1280x1024=320 YPos640x480=0 YPos1280x1024=272 Show=0 BGTint.red=255 BGTint.green=255 BGTint.blue=255 BGType=1 Fades=true Delay=2000 Duration=500 Alpha=255 FadeToAlpha=255 Locked=true Hopefully I'm not posting where I shouldn't be. I'm new here, but it was a definitive fix for me related to the poll window. |
As of yesterday the last of the 6 accounts I often play received the Survey. I responded "Yes" then clicked "Submit" now none of those accounts get the SSSE. The reason I'm posting this is because of when it happened. I was in game with one of my accounts talking in guildchat and heard about someone losing a character to a random disconnection from PEQ, this seems semi-common the last couple days. As they logged their character back in it received the Survey. Also another person who had been fighting through the SSSEs for 20 minutes or so announced that they also just received the Survey. Quickly I fired up another EQ client and logged in my 'uncured' account. Sure enough I got the Survey. I found none of us had used the Quick Connect.
This was the only time I've heard of more than one player getting the Survey at roughly the same time. It could be it was just random luck but it's worth chasing on a small scale. Here are my untested recommendations. 1. If you receive the Survey quickly notify others in your guild so they may try to do the same thing I did. I'm guessing you've got one or two minutes max to catch the wave. If you find similar results post back here and we'll start announcing in /ooc and IRC. 2. Don't use Quick Connect when attempting to catch the Survey. Quote:
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