How do you figure out what crashed the server?

[GDent 10]

My group and I have been trying to get back into Arma 3 after the summer's hiatus. Problem is, something keeps crashing the dedicated server. I don't know if it's a mission script, a mod, or if it's just the current version of the server. I don't know at all.

I have a number of mods running, but a bunch of them have been throwing sound errors ever since one of the more recent updates, so I've removed them for now. I don't know what else to do, but I'd like to know how I can figure out what exactly caused the server to crash. That would save me a lot of time.

Sometimes the server crashes immediately, and it seems like it had something to do with ACRE2, so we tried running the mission without that. It still crashed, but it took about 5 minutes. We were on Zargabad using AiATP. I just don't know what's going on or what to do with it, other than removing most of the mods that are causing sound errors. But now we're back to almost vanilla except for some extra weapons.

[Gunter Severloh 4057]

First place to look is the RPT, rpt is a log file, it opens with notepad, it will say rpt in its title, rpt will list everything the server is running and any errors or issues.

post that here in code and we might be able to tell you whats crashing the server.

[brainslush 13]

It also is important how the server crashes. Does it freeze up and doesn't respond for a long time or does the server really crash causing the server executable to shut down?

[GDent 10]

It crashes causing the executable to close. It gives the generic "Arma 3 Server has stopped working" dialog with the option to close the program or to look for solutions.

Here is the RPT, BI dump, and minidump: https://mega.co.nz/#!XxE0VBQZ!_iDu_62g2iq5UNibbDsomUI-wZckdUiiIG8KbXEJa_U

I don't know how to determine what caused the crash. I think it says something about @us_helos_kimi and then says something about a fault, but if you guys can show me how to determine exactly what caused the crash, that would help me a lot. I'm just learning about reading the RPT file and it has already shown me a few useful things.

[GDent 10]

I've just finished some testing. It seems other people running CBA_A3 is causing the server to crash. So I can run it on the server okay, but other people running it are crashing the server. Does anyone know anything about this?

[Gunter Severloh 4057]

This is what i found in the rpt that is of concern imo:

15:26:57 Mission Gold%20war%20v2.Zargabad: Missing 'description.ext::Header'

your description.ext needs a proper header for this

Missing addons detected:
15:27:51   CAF_INF_AR
15:27:51   caf_hlvw
15:27:51 Warning Message: You cannot play/edit this mission; it is dependent on downloadable content that has been deleted.CAF_INF_AR, caf_hlvw

your missing files for the mission your trying to play

15:27:52 Mission [AiE][Delat]CO10-16PMilPolice.Altis: Missing 'description.ext::Header'

again a header issue

"No params given for ALIVE_fnc_BUS - exiting..."

Something missing in the mission for alive, not sure, maybe a module

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Aside those, theres a few others, as for the dump files nothing i can do with those, you have to submit those here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?110823-Got-game-crash-Do-this

other notes, suggest you condense your mods, so all those with the same title like rds make one mod folder and put all the files related to rds in it, just make sure the

.pbos, and bisigns are in the addons folder of the mod folder.

Also suggest is you should run multiple command lines for certain missions that you play often just to not

have conflicts, for example one mission may only need a few addons, thn you have another that may need a alot more, but if you have a few missions that have some

requirements then running a whole goulash of mods for some missions that dont require them as your already experiencing will crash your game,

but first thing is first go over the errors I have listed above.

[terox 316]

Try removing any "older" bikeys for a given mod,

E.g CBA now has many old bikeys floating about, the latest is the rc3 bikey.

By removing older .bikey versions you are stopping clients connecting with older versions of CBA if you are running verifysignatures=2;

This will help with stability