Bogus Message Type, Server Crashes

[Spykie]

When I wake up in the morning and check my server it's showing this error: Tried to create a message with a bogus message type (0)

Any idea why it's doing this?


Keep up the great work!

[Cpl. Shrike]

Tried to create a message with a bogus message type (0)
Well i have never seen that message before. ???:(

Do you get that alot ??
Or was it a one time glitch.

[Spykie]

Every morning when I woke up and the server is filled with 20-32 players

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

I've already seen this message before...

For me it was a memory problem... there must be a leak somewhere... or an overflow... or something. Ensure that when you free() stuff you never free it twice, and all the usual checks ...

[Spykie]

Hmm I don't think I've ever done something like that...

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

rofl, nah, obviously :D

my reply was about coding, it was directed at Cpl Shrike, not you, sorry dude :)

[Cpl. Shrike]

;)

Guess i need to get me memory debugger.

Im not skilled on that yet though o_O

[Spykie]

lol ok guys, thanks for the hard work ;)

[botman]

"bogus message type (0)" errors are caused when you try to send a network message without registering it first. For example, if you had something like this...
pfnMessageBegin( MSG_ONE, gmsgTextMsg, NULL, pEntity );
pfnWriteByte( msg_dest );
pfnWriteString( msg_name );
pfnMessageEnd();
...you can get that error if you never registered 'gmsgTextMsg' using REG_USER_MSG.

You should have the code be something like this instead...
if (gmsgTextMsg == 0)
gmsgTextMsg = REG_USER_MSG( "TextMsg", -1 );

pfnMessageBegin( MSG_ONE, gmsgTextMsg, NULL, pEntity );
pfnWriteByte( msg_dest );
pfnWriteString( msg_name );
pfnMessageEnd();
It should be pretty simple to search your bot code for "MESSAGE_BEGIN" or "pfnMessageBegin" and find all the places where you're not checking the message ID for == 0.

EDIT: I have NO idea why it's putting the "Courier New" crap in there.

botman

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

...that's because you must have copypasted this code, botman...
I know, my [ code ] tags suck :( But the default ones have this bug, too.