Dedicated server crashes with most missions.

[Contra 10]

Hello everyone,

I am running a dedicated server, but I have a problem. Most maps that I try and load onto the server make it crash when I enter the missions screen. I can only get a handfull working right now. Any Ideas on why this is happening ? All the missions were downloaded from armaholic.

The server works fine with a few missions, but not the rest.

[gossamersolid 155]

You need to check your server RPT file to see why it's crashing.

[Tankbuster 1733]

Is the server Windows or Linux?

[Contra 10]

The server is running on linux. I checked the server log its not showing anything. host joins, logs in as admin, then crash once you try and select a mission.

[Gunter Severloh 3951]

Server log or server RPT, log will list exactly that, but the RPt lists everything, what addons/mods, errors,

anything being updated, loaded, missions, timestamp, ect,.

Refer to this for Linux:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Dedicated_Server#Linux_3

[larsiano 12]

have you used the .tolower command? ie. are there no capitals in the mission names linux does not seem to like that :)

[Tankbuster 1733]

Yeah. This is most likely to be the problem. Everything has to be in lower case for linux.

[sickboy 13]

Besides toLower, you might have to increase the open file limits.

https://dev-heaven.net/issues/11584

Edited April 13, 2012 by Sickboy
Fixed link :O

[Overlord 0]

You should also avoid spaces in file/mission names on Linux. A handy trick is to add tolower to your start-script. This will automatically convert all upper-casings (if any) evry time your server start/restart. Can be handy when adding new missions to server.

[Contra 10]

I completely forgot about the lowercase thing, ill check that tonight, and get back to you, ill also check the log again