LlamaServer: status and bug reports

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Xietor

I think llamaserver was accepting turns. So if games hosted I doubt(ducks) that is a big deal.

Other than that, some people may have stopped submitting turns when they realized what was going on. Personally, I was not very annoyed by the interruption - though I think poor Llama has gremlins. :P I would, however, be a little annoyed at being severely penalized for hesitating to send in turns to a malfunctioning server.....

[Herode]

I don't know if it's connected but I am now unable to validate a "postpone hosting" order with my admin password.

[lch]

As llama has said, the server is down right now.

[GrudgeBringer]

How come I got a new turn AND still getting revised from old turn?

[JimMorrison]

From the Llamaserver -

Originally Posted by llamabeast

The LlamaServer is a bit unhappy at the moment. I just came back from a few days away to find it acting very oddly (apologies to everyone who was spammed), so I thought I'd reboot it. Unfortunately I then wasn't able to restart it, and I've now exhausted all the ideas me and my (very hardware-savvy) housemate could come up with to revive it. So it looks like the current hardware incarnation of the server may be dead.

Fortunately, this isn't nearly so bad as it sounds. I still have all the data safe, and I'll get it running again very soon, either on my lab computer or on a virtual machine within my housemate's server. So all should be running again in the next day or two.

Thanks everyone for being so patient.

llamabeast

I feel bad, every time you leave town, we immediately break your stuff.

[llamabeast]

Okay all, the system is even downer. I turned the computer off and on again, and it wouldn't restart. So maybe the bizarre behaviour (I couldn't work out what was going on) was a result of a hardware fault or something. Hard to say.

I can't work out how to fix it (I suspect it's not fixable), but fortunately my housemate is something of a legend and is setting me up some virtual partition on his server. If that works we'll be sorted, and if not I'll run it off my lab computer for a while.

The conclusion is that it looks like the server might still be down for a day or few, but hopefully not much more than that. Thanks everyone for being so patient.

[lch]

Didn't you have this kind of behaviour before? Or was that somebody else? I somehow think I'm having a deja-vu here.

[llamabeast]

Yeah, I did, a few weeks ago (as in, I couldn't turn it on). I jiggled the RAM around and that seemed to fix it. This time it didn't fix it though. Maybe it's a cracked connection or something on the motherboard and last time it was just the jiggling which happened to make it work again. In any case, the computer at its minimum is just the motherboard and the RAM, and I've tried three different RAM sticks to no avail.

[BDOC]

It could be an overheating issue. There is a heat conducting gel connecting the fans and the motherboard that over time can degrade. If this gel is replaced it could solve the overheating issue.

Thank you for all your efforts. The LLama server is a nice resource.

Shrapnel Games should look into makeing a server available. Like blizzard's BATTLENET

BDoc

[archaeolept]

i can assure you that it is not an issue of heat conducting gel between fans and motherboard

symptoms aren't those of overheating anyways, as it does not boot up after having cooled down. It does sound most likely to be a flaky motherboard, as you've swapped out memory and it is rarely the proc that dies. swapping out parts is the only way to really find out, though.