Headless Client crashing every 20 minutes

[thenobleone 10]

Hello,

I host two Arma 2 CO Warfare CTI (Benny Edition) servers that use Headless Clients. I noticed a few days ago that both headless clients on both servers started crashing after about 20 minutes after they were started.

I did not change any settings, they just started crashing on their own. Over the last few days I spent many hours trying to fix this. I tried various start-up parameters as well as different other settings.

I even went as far reinstalling everything from scratch on three different version of Windows operating system and every time with same result, crash after about 20 minutes.

Also I do not believe that the problem is caused by faulty hardware, I have tried running the headless clients on three different physical computers with same result.

Windows error message after the crash:

ArmA2OA.exe - Application Error

The instruction at 0x130b6ef8 referenced memory at 0xffffffff.

The memory could not be read.

Click on OK to terminate the program

From ArmA2OA.RPT:

Mods: Expansion

Distribution: 0

Version 1.63.125548

Fault address: 130B6EF8 BE3400:0000000C Unknown module

file: ofpswarfare (__CUR_MP)

world: takistan

Prev. code bytes: 75 49 8B 90 92 A3 35 00 8B 02 8B 88 80 18 00 00

Fault code bytes: 8B 11 8B 72 44 8B BD A8 FE FF FF 8D 85 AC FE FF

Registers:

EAX:0EDC0D00 EBX:00000000

ECX:FFFFFFFF EDX:00DA0564

ESI:00000000 EDI:769F3E93

CS:EIP:0023:130B6EF8

SS:ESP:002B:13A8CFE8 EBP:13A8EF30

DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B

Flags:00010246

=======================================================

note: Minidump has been generated into the file Warfare\ArmA2OA.mdmp

Client: Network message d2aa (update info 1b3a4110) is pending

Client: Network message d2aa (update info 1b3a4168) is pending

Client: Network message d2aa (update info 1b3a4218) is pending

Client: Network message d2aa (update info 1b3a44d8) is pending

Client: Network message d2aa (update info 1b3a4530) is pending

Client: Network message d2ab (update info 1b3a4230) is pending

Hope someone out there knows how to fix this. Thanks.

[devonmiles 10]

I have exactly the same problem. The crashes started out of nothing at around 10 p.m. CET / 10th March.

I noticed there was an Arma 2 OA update on queue in steam, but after installing it, the HC keept crashing.

Like thenobleone I tried several things:

- Rolled back our serverfiles

- Reinstalled Arma 2 / 2 OA for the HC

- Disabled the HC scripts and let him connect as a regular player

- Outsorced the HC to my local pc

- Created VMs with different OS ( Win 7 / 2008) and fresh HC installations

- Created a fresh, vanilla DayZ server and let the freshly installed HC connect

- tried different mallocs for the HC

All of it with no positive results - the HC keeps crashing, so it more or less leaves me with the thought that the dedicated client has to be faulty.

Mods: @DayZ_Epoch

Distribution: 0

Version 1.63.125548

Fault address: 129BCDB8 BE3400:0000000C Unknown module

file: DE_1000_B (__CUR_MP)

world: Chernarus

Prev. code bytes: 75 49 8B 90 92 A3 35 00 8B 02 8B 88 80 18 00 00

Fault code bytes: 8B 11 8B 72 44 8B BD A8 FE FF FF 8D 85 AC FE FF

Registers:

EAX:0FB35900 EBX:00000000

ECX:FFFFFFFF EDX:00DA0564

ESI:00000000 EDI:76519C76

CS:EIP:001B:129BCDB8

SS:ESP:0023:13D9CFE8 EBP:13D9EF30

DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000

Flags:00010246

[UHAXM1 10]

Here's what I found after looking into the mini dump that Arma2 created, it may be an issue with the BEClient.dll

BI seriously guys this is a big bug, can you please look into it for us, it's not hard to recreate!

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Microsoft ® Windows Debugger Version 6.3.9600.17298 X86

Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Loading Dump File [C:\Users\UHAX\Desktop\ArmA2OA.mdmp]

User Mini Dump File: Only registers, stack and portions of memory are available

************* Symbol Path validation summary **************

Response Time (ms) Location

Deferred SRV*C:\Symbols*

Symbol search path is: SRV*C:\Symbols*

Executable search path is:

Windows 8 Version 9200 UP Free x86 compatible

Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS

Machine Name:

Debug session time: Sun Mar 22 00:25:58.000 2015 (UTC + 13:00)

System Uptime: not available

Process Uptime: 0 days 0:18:01.000

................................................................

.......................

This dump file has an exception of interest stored in it.

The stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.

(26b4.2318): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)

eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00cbfcb2 edi=137fc677

eip=77c2d44c esp=137fbc30 ebp=137fbc3c iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz ac pe nc

cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00000216

ntdll!NtGetContextThread+0xc:

77c2d44c c20800 ret 8

0:004> .ecxr

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for BEClient.dll -

eax=0c9f5930 ebx=00000000 ecx=74746168 edx=00da0564 esi=00000000 edi=76e38c00

eip=0575ae70 esp=137fcfe0 ebp=137fef28 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc

cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010246

0575ae70 8b11 mov edx,dword ptr [ecx] ds:002b:74746168=????????

---------- Post added at 14:34 ---------- Previous post was at 14:33 ----------

I can confirm this is a BattlEye issue, if I set BattlEye = 0; in the server.cfg the problem no longer occurs.

I have emailed BattlEye support.

[Guest]

Are you guys also having the sudenly rise of player upload consume reaching, sometimes, like 300 Kb/s upload rate per player?

[UHAXM1 10]

I got a reply back from BattlEye.

However if you are looking for a temp fix in the mean time try deleting the Profile folder each time before you start the HC!

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Hi,

I'm sorry for this, it will be corrected shortly.

Regards,

Bastian Suter

BattlEye Innovations

[$able 2]

This issue should be fixed now, please confirm.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused.

[devonmiles 10]

It is still crashing for me and I didn´t notice any changes to the BE files. Which ones underwent changes?

[$able 2]

It is still crashing for me and I didn´t notice any changes to the BE files. Which ones underwent changes?

No file updates. Could you confirm that the issue is fixed now?

[devonmiles 10]

Looks good for the past couple of restarts, I´ll keep you posted if something goes wrong. Thanks for the fix!

[UHAXM1 10]

I can confirm, the issue has now been resolved.

Thanks BE!

[Guest]

The lag problem, like you can see on this post:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?182432-Headless-Client-troubles-since-1-63-amp-Steam

Is related to this BE problem? It was fixed?

[Guest]

It's crashing to me.

The problem have back again?

[player2 10]

Crashing for me again too, seems like the problem is back.

Have also had the lag problems you linked. Our headless client is running a very small amount of code with no intense or taxing loops, under 10 A.I. units, and still having problems...

We tried placing our HeadlessClient in a fresh WinXP machine, and still it has continued crashing...So we tried making it only 1 AI unit with nothing extra, and STILL it is crashing at seemingly random intervals!

[Guest]

I send a e-mail to BE but they not answered it. May be you have more luck. Why don't you send a e-mail to BE?

I'm with BE off on my server and its all working ok, but this is really bad because i can't use Dart to comunicate with my players.

You don't need hackers breaking your server, BE auto-hacker tool do it for then, so hackers will not need to attack your server. Best protection ever!

Edited April 1, 2015 by Guest

[devonmiles 10]

I have the same problems again - anybody else?

[MZ_ 0]

I have the same problems again - anybody else?

 

Yes.

 

I have the same problems. it started Aug. 6, a month before it worked without a glitch. crashing every 17-20 minutes on all my servers(3)

there is some sort of fix?

[imago 1]

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