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Control Panel Down… Maybe for good!?!??
Over a year ago when HostedGameServers.com was started, we decided to go with a panel called swiftpanel from www.swiftpanel.com. Within swiftpanel, there is an authorization check that hits their servers to verify our license.
Well, Swiftpanel’s author has been completely unresponsive for about a year… and today the website just went down. The result? Our panel [...]
It’s that time of the month for steam, apparently. Semaphores, SteamGetEncryptionKeyToSendToNewClient and other stupidness.
I mean, it happens like once a month, right…? Steam explodes and we have to sit here waiting to start our game server while they piddle-pat around fixing it. Haven’t they heard of a QA process?!
Well anyway, when you run an update, you get something like this error below.
Updating Installation
removing stale semaphore last operated on [...]
Atom Exploded. Boom.
Something on one of our servers caused atom’s memory go to nuts! Likely a steam bug, exploit or memory leak… atom needed a hard reboot before it would be responsive. If you had a server who already had memory assigned, you were probably playing normally… but when you would go to change maps – it [...]
Valve broke source again. Don’t update!! (appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me” error)
So, valve broke Counter-Strike: Source again in their last update. (Sigh!) Don’t update your server or it will stop booting. They’re working on a fix now, but it could be a day. Bad Valve, BAD!
appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me”
Here’s some news from their mailing list:
Is this failing to contact steam master or vac [...]
HLDS for Linux – Steam Outage!
Over the last 48 hours, Steam had some issues with their updating. Every time one of our hlds game servers would start, it would check for updates from steam and end up with a strange error like this:
>>Incorrect price blob version! Update your server!
It looks like its fixed now, but during the outage, if [...]
Outage with Atom
Atom has exploded. Man thats fun to report.
The server locked up today at 9:17 until 10:03 and was out for a little less than an hour.
You will have to restart any servers hosted on the following IPs:
174.142.97.13
174.142.98.73
174.142.98.74
174.142.98.75
174.142.98.76
174.142.98.77
174.142.98.78
Safe to reboot your source server again! Steam fixed the errors.
Steam has fixed the error identified earlier today and it is now safe to reboot your server! Your server will automatically patch on every reboot. If your server ever does not come up, give it a couple minutes and try a second reboot. Sometimes it takes one extra after patching.
Don’t reboot your source server! The latest Steam patch breaks everything.
The latest source update has broken linux servers and a fix is incoming from steam ASAP:
http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/12083
If this turns into an extended outage we’ll apply a work around!
dangit steam!
Updating server using Steam.
Checking bootstrapper version …
Updating Installation
Checking/Installing ‘Counter-Strike Source Shared Content’ version 72
Checking/Installing ‘Base Source Shared Models’ version 4
Checking/Installing ‘Base Source Shared Sounds’ version 4
Checking/Installing ‘Base Source [...]