bow + knife? sounds like a saw?? wacky soldat.exe behaviour [solved]

[blamer]

Hi, I'm newish to solserver. v2.7.3. Yesterday everything working fine. I was playing with folks Internet mode. Then left it unattended with people playing. Later I saw zero players & shut it down. Health at that point: unknown. I assumed fine. Perhaps not.

Today: very very sick. Every player starts with what looks like a bow & sounds like a saw. Essentially unplayable

I saw no files in /solserver/ with a timestamp later than my previous start-up time (yesterday). Eg. soldat.ini looks untouched.

Tried to fix by unzipping serverpatch2.6.5-2.7.0.zip and rolling it back up to patch level 2.7.3. (In case some binary got distroyed) Same result. Sick as a dog.

How to repair? Sounding to you like a person/script intentionally broke my solserver? I'm not running ASE, anti-cheat, etc. Hadn't got to the stage of hardening it.

I'm comfortable in linux land but no guru. Mint Linux v12 (ubuntu). Any and all help appreciated. I don't wanna blow it all away and start from scratch but I can if I have to.

Anything else you need to know from me, just ask.

Cheers guys,
- @blamer ..

[rOy]

for Linux:
you must:

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apt-get update
apt-get upgradesecurity

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777 for logs
777 for anticheatimportant!

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775 for sodatservernow ./soldatserver
and test this.

[rOy]

and check This link

[blamer]

Thanks Roy.

I'm familiar with chmod (file permissions) & that libz.so issue (had to fix that one once before).

Looks like the issue is actually with my mswindows soldat CLIENT (v1.6.3). All public soldat servers, same sh*t.

   So I think not my linux solserver at all. I might try a re-install of ye olde soldat.exe... no real drama.

One more symptom I noticed, in case other have this happen:  I get FLOOD kicked after about 2mins.

Take a look at my screeny attached (I hope).

   All players APPEAR to have knife + bow + chain of ammo.... but of course really they don't. Just my soldat v1.6.3 client is showing me that. Really crazy.

I'll check back later.

Peace,

[blamer]

Fixed.

1. soldat client re-install
2. reset your client preferences on 1st launch (same as config.exe)
3. reset your colours, default 2ndary weapon, keys, etc

Registration carries over automatically.

Root-cause: nfi