Server Startup Hang and then Crash.

  • What could cause the server startup process to hang just prior to
    "ready for login" . Basically, it crashes and I get an error message that
    states a problem was encountered and FL needs to close.

  • Here is what I've encountered.
    Everything in the 20 Years Later mod was progressing nicely.
    Finally got all the new ships installed and coded.
    Have all the systems installed with the exception of adding
    new planets and stations. (that's easy enough even if time consuming).


    But here is where the problem begins:
    I created 12 new factions.
    Each have their specific ids name, ids info and ids short name.
    I added them into the specific .dll's and could still start up the server and
    run though all the new systems without any problems.
    But that's not what's causing the server crash.


    What is causing the server crash is this:


    It's AFTER I added the new factions to:
    a) the initialworld.ini
    AND
    b) added them to the empathy.ini
    (is when the server startup hangs and then crashes)


    Okayyyyyyy......
    so I take a couple steps back and remove them from the initialworld and
    empathy ini's. TOO LATE......the server still hangs and crashes.


    I haven't set them up to fly their own ships yet because I wanted to make sure
    I could start up the server without what just happened. They are there to
    establish their existence in the game in order to "own bases and stations".
    Setting them up with their own ships was the next step. (on the backburner
    for now until I get this sorted out)


    Can someone tell me what I have overlooked?

  • Every faction in initialword.ini must have a matching entry in faction_prop.ini.


    No match -> crash. Im not sure if having faction_prop but no initialword entry is crashing as well, maybe so.