The master will be shut down for approximately 20 minutes.

This is for electricity reasons. It will probably go down for a few minutes on another 1 or 2 occasions today.

Saving the ozone layer huh?

after plumber now electric home-worker....

I was kicked from OptusNet LFS #2, assuming because of the server going down, and now when I try join a server I get "Username already online" and on LFS World it says i'm online at that server..

uhho hope its back up at 8:30 GMT+ 10 time the AAL is having the first race of the fox series then :O 50 lapper on bl it would be a real barstard if it went offline again then :S

Quote from nism0 :

I was kicked from OptusNet LFS #2, assuming because of the server going down, and now when I try join a server I get "Username already online" and on LFS World it says i'm online at that server..

You wouldn't get kicked because the master was down - that must be a coincidence.

Looks like somethnig went wrong with that host and it's just that old "stuck on host" bug. Anyway, i've remotely restarted that host, so you are free again.

Quote from Mr.Ferret :

uhho hope its back up at 8:30 GMT+ 10 time the AAL is having the first race of the fox series then :O 50 lapper on bl it would be a real barstard if it went offline again then :S

Well... not really. It's not really a bit deal at all. If the master is shut down later today, it will be for 2 mins or so. In which time you would not be able to join a host. But if you are already connected then you would stay connected.

stuck on host myself.. can you help?
Would it be feasible to implement an authentification check so we can boot the ghost user name ourselves?

Quote from Scawen :

Well... not really. It's not really a bit deal at all. If the master is shut down later today, it will be for 2 mins or so. In which time you would not be able to join a host. But if you are already connected then you would stay connected.

thanks for clearing that up Scawen

Thank you!

Quote from Breizh :

stuck on host myself.. can you help?
Would it be feasible to implement an authentification check so we can boot the ghost user name ourselves?

OK... restarted.

I'm quite surprised at these "coincidences". It's strange that two hosts got stuck today...

I've got a good solution planned to fix this problem totally, so you wouldn't need that admin thing. I just didn't get time to do it before S2 Alpha. The method relies on master receiving small "stay alive" packets from live guests attached to hosts, so that even hosts stuck in a time warp can't keep telling master "everything is ok and these guys are still connected" (strange bug this is). It needs to be implemented in an incompatible version.

Sorta kind maybe off topic, but is the master server located in your home, Scawen, or is it in a remote server bank somewhere?

Quote from 96 GTS :

Sorta kind maybe off topic, but is the master server located in your home, Scawen, or is it in a remote server bank somewhere?

The whole internet is linked to his house's fusebox...

http://www.lfsforum.net/showpo ... p=26812&postcount=308

Quote from 96 GTS :

Sorta kind maybe off topic, but is the master server located in your home, Scawen, or is it in a remote server bank somewhere?

Yes it's in my house. This is for historical reasons - there used to be two very good reasons for it. One, because we didn't have our own internet server (i mean the big one in a rack, that runs our website). And two, because it's good to develop on it and watch it right beside me. In the earlier days the master needed a lot of development and bug fixing.

Now that we have our own internet servers, it's probably a good idea to convert to Linux and put it on our main server. Eaiser said than done of course because i don't know much about Linux, but presumably quite easy...

Anyway it's really not a big deal or a rush to do it as it's a solid business connection here with a Fixed IP. Power cuts in this part of the world are about once every 2 years, for 10 minutes.

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Anyway it's really not a big deal or a rush to do it as it's a solid business connection here with a Fixed IP. Power cuts in this part of the world are about once every 2 years, for 10 minutes.

Still, I'd like to see the next episode of "Home Improvement, Scawen Edition" to be "How to Install a Scavier PRG3000 kerosine driven power generator in the basement" with the followups "How to stop the neighbours complaining about the smell" and "How to reduce the vibrations of the generator, so that the plates actually stay inside the cupboards"

*cough* http://www.ebuyer.com/customer ... WV3&product_uid=57716

Nevertheless, I can tell you from experience that plasterers do not appreciate being electrocuted one bit. Although the sparks were impressive. Good job floats have rubber handles really.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

Still, I'd like to see the next episode of "Home Improvement, Scawen Edition" to be "How to Install a Scavier PRG3000 kerosine driven power generator in the basement" with the followups "How to stop the neighbours complaining about the smell" and "How to reduce the vibrations of the generator, so that the plates actually stay inside the cupboards"

Or short: Live for Plumbing S2 Alpha

Vain

Is it still down though? Each time i go onto Multiplayer, and Join, it says 'CAN NOT FIND HOSTS'. Any help?

Quote from Lucasinio :

Is it still down though? Each time i go onto Multiplayer, and Join, it says 'CAN NOT FIND HOSTS'. Any help?

No, it's not down.

What happens when you click on "List of Games" ?

Sorry, thats what i meant. It has a list, but i cant select a game as it says 'COULD NOT FIND HOST'. It is the demo version.

Did you get the list a long time ago, and LFS is still running since that time? Maybe you need to click the refresh button and try again?

Ill try leaving it for a bit, and see what happens.

Ive noticed that it stays up, but i cant refresh either....

Have you tried exiting LFS, and starting up LFS again?

i had this problem once...i just deleted cfg.txt. and it was ok...just needed to "setup" lfs again....but in this case it can be something else...