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| - | ====== Known Client Issues ====== | ||
| - | ===== All Versions ===== | ||
| - | In case you don't get a metaserver list: | ||
| - | * If you're using ISDN or DSL verify that your MTU is 1492, not 1500. | ||
| - | * Do not use a nameserver of Deutsche Telekom or T-Online. | ||
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| - | ===== Unspecified/Multiple/SVN ===== | ||
| - | ==== New Client with Old HOME folder ==== | ||
| - | //March, 2011.// \\ | ||
| - | Launching a trunk gtk-v2 client **(1.60.0+)** with an old user's **.**[[:client:crossfire]] folder caused a fatal crash. \\ | ||
| - | Renaming the .crossfire folder resolved the issue. \\ | ||
| - | Full diagnosis of the root cause has not been done. | ||
| - | ==== Client freezes ==== | ||
| - | //September, 2010.// \\ | ||
| - | If you apply a bed of reality, hit q to quit, and something else, especially a keybind, in very quick succession, the client freezes up (at least on **Linux**). \\ | ||
| - | ''killall -HUP crossfire-client-gtk2'' will kill it, but most window manager functions do not appear to be successfull at closing the hung client. \\ | ||
| - | It appears that the client keeps trying to do socket operations to send the commands to the now disconnected server. GDB shows it stuck much if the time in _ _kernel_vsyscall, but sometimes you can catch in in libpthread.so. \\ | ||
| - | In past experience, _ _kernel_vsyscall can hang for about 4 minutes on Linux before it returns, still, after many, many minutes, the client does not die. mwedel suggested a possible setting for the socket that might help. \\ | ||
| - | It looks like the client is very hard to kill if you do not have **xkill** or know how to go to a console to kill it, so this is a very unfriendly behavior. This has probably been an issue for a very long time, but just has not been noticed or reported. | ||
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| - | EDIT March 2018 : | ||
| - | kill -SIGHUP or kill -1 is not the best way to kill something. \\ | ||
| - | kill -SIGKILL or kill -9 should kill any userspace program. | ||
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| - | ==== Window frame X close button on Popups ==== | ||
| - | //August, 2010.// \\ | ||
| - | The GTK-V2 client design specifies that various dialogs (spell, skills, config, etc) should not be drawn with the X close icon on the window frame. \\ | ||
| - | This works for various window managers, but appears not to work under the default **LXDE** configuration on Mandriva 2010 Spring. \\ | ||
| - | Another report said that it did not work under **KDE 3.5.10** when kde-window-decorator was in use, though KDE is generally considered to not have this issue. \\ | ||
| - | In any event, if X close icons appear on client dialogs, **DO NOT dismiss them with the X icon** . \\ | ||
| - | This deletes the dialog and requires a client restart to show it again. \\ | ||
| - | Use the Close button, on the lower button bar, to dismiss all client dialogs. | ||
| - | * This is fixed in SVN as of 2010/08/19. | ||
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| - | ==== Themes do not work ==== | ||
| - | //~August, 2010 and earlier. // \\ | ||
| - | Various reports indicate that crossfire-client-gtk2 themes (colored text/spell window) no longer worked on some distributions when the client is launched from a user account. \\ | ||
| - | Workarounds were found. All of them essentially launch the client like this: ''GTK_MODULES=""; crossfire-client-gtk2''. \\ | ||
| - | In at least one instance of non-working themes, GTK_MODULES was set to ''canberra-gtk-module'', but the settings for all reports is unknown. \\ | ||
| - | It appears some theme engines are not compatible with crossfire-client-gtk2 theme code. \\ | ||
| - | It is not yet known whether there is a way to alter the client so that its themes work properly without regard to the system GTK theme engine setting. | ||
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| - | ==== Impossible to create a character ==== | ||
| - | //~July, 2010.// \\ | ||
| - | The GTK-V2 client with account-based login support has a bug in a character create button that makes it impossible to set up a character. \\ | ||
| - | It is thought this bug is in **1.50** . Current [[:downloading#SVN via SourceForge|SVN]] is fixed. The fix is an update to //{prefix}/share/crossfire-client/glade-gtk2/dialogs.glade// , and does not require a re-compile. | ||
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| - | ==== Player communication broken ==== | ||
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| - | Various reports of broken chat/say/tell/shout with trunk servers are reported: | ||
| - | * Meflin reports 1.11 clients on trunk server: chat/say does not work. It is not known if this is widely experienced or not. Fedora is still on 1.11 (and is what was in use regarding this report). | ||
| - | * Invidious user report via Meflin is for Debian Stable 5.0.4 and current GTK V2 Unix Client 1.50.0.dev-r13535M (using gtk-v2.glade) chat. Say and shout do work. | ||
| - | * Kero has an issue of this nature, but details are not recorded. | ||
| - | * This may only be an issue when playing a trunk servers only? | ||
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| - | ==== Client freezes using other than default .glade layout ==== | ||
| - | //~July, 2010.// \\ | ||
| - | Two users are known to have experienced a case where the gtk-v2 client (widely varying versions) locks up when a non-default .glade layout is selected (other than gtk-v2). \\ | ||
| - | When running under gdb, it appears the client is locked up in metaserver code. | ||
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| - | The first observation by kbulgrien was on Mandriva 2007 (low memory, slow CPU), \\ | ||
| - | but various other Mandriva 2007 systems did not exhibit the problem. \\ | ||
| - | Deleting or renaming the ~/.crossfire/[[:client:gdefaults2]] would allow the client to work. \\ | ||
| - | When the system was upgraded to Mandriva 2009.0, the problem disappeared. | ||
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| - | The second time the issue was noted by MasseR using Ubuntu 9.10. \\ | ||
| - | In this case, a workaround was discovered. If the client was launched specifying both ''-opengl -window_xml <any.glade>'' , the client started properly. \\ | ||
| - | If both opengl and an alternate .glade layout is specified in the configuration file, the problem recurred. | ||
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| - | ===== 1.50.0 ===== | ||
| - | * This client is affected by [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3020531&group_id=13833&atid=113833|Bug #3020531 The Create Character button does nothing]]. The bug affects only use with servers that support account based logins. | ||
| - | * Replace the broken dialogs.glade file with a recent version that is downloadable [[http://crossfire.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crossfire/client/trunk/gtk-v2/glade/dialogs.glade|here]]. | ||
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| - | ===== 1.11.0 ===== | ||
| - | * Double text issues still a problem on recent Ubuntu (Gutsy, Hardy, Intrepid) based 64bit systems when using the GTK2 ([[trunk]] and [[branch]]) client. | ||
| - | * [[:client:client_compiling|Compile the client]] using the latest source code resolves this issue, or one needs to use the gtkv-1 client | ||
| - | * The 1.50.0 client does not have this problem. | ||
| - | * See also [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1876788&group_id=13833&atid=113833|Bug #1876788]]. | ||
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| - | ===== 1.10.0 ===== | ||
| - | * Dec-23-2007: A Mandriva 2008 user reports doubled up keypresses in crossfire-client-gtk2 that were previously only reported for version 1.9.1 on ubuntu. The report indicates gtk2 2.12.1-2.1 was present. The reporter indicates that the doubled up keypresses DID NOT occur when typing in the metaserver dialog. The GTK1 client is unaffected. | ||
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| - | ===== 1.9.1 ===== | ||
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| - | crossfire-client-gtk2 under Ubuntu Edgy (v1.9.1-1) and Feisty (v1.9.1-2) (untested on other versions or releases) | ||
| - | * We've heard there's a weird seemingly ubuntu-specific bug in ubuntu's package of gcfclient2, with it repeating each keypress twice when typing. | ||
| - | * Feb-22-2007: Bug reported at LaunchPad, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crossfire-client/+bug/87194 | ||
| - | * Sept-18-2007: Player feedback indicates this problem has been "resolved" in v1.10.0 of the client or if the client is built from SVN source | ||
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