G'day, I've made a core dump of a dead slot's ntserv by giving it a SIGILL. Looking for ideas as to cause. p_status is POUTFIT, p_whydead is KWINNER, but p_ghostbuster is zero. I cannot find what is causing p_ghostbuster to be zero. Presumably something was resetting it. I've checked all the writes to p_ghostbuser that I could find, but none of them matched the situation. (gdb) bt #0 0x5019ac78 in __read () at soinit.c:59 #1 0x2667c in doRead (asock=5) at socket.c:1007 #2 0x262e8 in readFromClient () at socket.c:943 #3 0x1922c in input () at input.c:152 #4 0x1d364 in main (argc=1, argv=0xefffedb8) at main.c:410 (gdb) p *me $1 = {p_no = 13, p_updates = 2289, p_status = 1, p_flags = 33562625, p_name = "guest\000iller\000ean", p_login = "neilson\000ySilly\000", p_monitor = "#sun705.usc.edu", p_longname = "guest (Rd)\000lean (Rd)\000", p_mapchars = "Rd", p_ship = { }, p_x = 16099, p_y = 18233, p_dir = 0 '\000', p_desdir = 0 '\000', p_subdir = 0, p_speed = 0, p_desspeed = 0, p_subspeed = 0, p_team = 2, p_damage = 148, p_subdamage = 0, p_shield = 0, p_subshield = 250, p_cloakphase = 0, p_ntorp = 0, p_nplasmatorp = 0, p_hostile = 13 '\r', p_swar = 0 '\000', p_war = 13 '\r', p_lastseenby = 1 '\001', p_kills = 0, p_planet = 10, p_playerl = 2, p_armies = 0, p_fuel = 14000, p_explode = 0, p_etemp = 0, p_etime = 0, p_wtemp = 0, p_wtime = 0, p_whydead = 7, p_whodead = 0, p_stats = { }, p_genoplanets = 0, p_genoarmsbomb = 0, p_planets = 0, p_armsbomb = 0, p_ghostbuster = 0, p_docked = 0, p_port = {-1, -1, -1, -1}, p_tractor = 3, p_pos = -1, w_queue = 0, p_full_hostname = "lvl-sun705.usc.edu\000h.edu\000com\000.ca\000\000\000a\000. com", '\000' <repeats 22 times>, p_avrt = 65, p_stdv = 8, p_pkls_c_s = 2, p_pkls_s_c = 1, p_timerdelay = 1, p_process = 10592, p_df = 0, p_tg = 0} -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/