[Norfleet]

I received the file from Mose. The first, most striking thing is that Abysia's 2h is missing, while the server page, and the game prompt, said Abysia was current.

I found this discrepancy odd, so I attempted to connect to the server again...and now Abysia is reported as not having taken its turn. Attempting to host with the files without Abysia proceeds normally, but attempting to crowbar the hosting on the server itself nagots.

It is even more weird that there is *NO* Abysia.2h included in the zip Mose sent: Either he somehow omitted it in whatever process that he used to zip it, which would be very strange, given that it's a Linux box, and it makes no sense that "zip Pascentiful.zip *" would miss anything. Why is Abysia's 2h missing? Did something prevent the zip program from reading it? Are the file permissions on Abysia.2h FUBAR'ed, this preventing both Dom2 from reading it, and preventing Mose from zipping it?

I am baffled.

As all attempts to reproduce the error locally yield no result, and Abysia has once again not taken its turn, I am forced to conclude that there may be file corruption which prevented the file from being included in the uploaded zip, and is yielding this odd behavior. I shall tell Cohen to reconnect and upload his turn again, after which the server will attempt to host. If it proceeds without incident, then I'll consider it a bizarre unsolved mystery. If it still fails, I'll have to either try hosting the game on kludgemush.com, or have Mose clean out the directory and replace all of the files with a fresh zip from after the hosting, whichever is less complicated. We'll see what happens when I get Cohen to redo his turn.

[ May 22, 2004, 09:44: Message edited by: Norfleet ]