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General => Developers Corner => Topic started by: ?VG? Nagato on March 06, 2016, 10:40:25 PM

Title: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: ?VG? Nagato on March 06, 2016, 10:40:25 PM

I've been running a gmod server for 6 months, until suddenly the server will restart at the most randomest times
For example:
Having a small space battle, server will restart itself, looked in console, literally nothing except the last input thing was maybe someone typing hi in chat, then 5 minutes later, same thing, but nothing spawned in

3-4 hours later, another random restart with nothing spawned in!

1-2 hours after that, another random restart with maybe two ppl shooting each other!

In total in one day, we have has: 11-14 random restarts


What could it be? I've read on this forums that Ulx 3.6 was buggy and I should revert, but I doubt that's the issue, as this has only surfaced since last month

Could it be a hacker? Someone randomly restarting the server...(Which I doubt, since hackers would probably do more)

What should I do? Please help! lots of players are leaving my server because of this.
If you need logs, screenshots and a collection link, please let me know!

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: MrPresident on March 06, 2016, 11:13:53 PM

This is mostly likely being caused by server monitoring methods you are using.

If you are running a server yourself are you using a .bat file to monitor the server and restart it if it crashes?
If you are using a server host (paid) they probably have software that monitors the server.

Sometimes if the server hitches or lags the software/batch file will think the server isn't responding and it'll kill and restart it.

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: ?VG? Nagato on March 07, 2016, 06:38:42 AM

I use serenity servers hosting
So how would I fix this? Ask them? Or what?

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: ?VG? Nagato on March 07, 2016, 07:33:46 AM

They said that it was an addon crash, and to try running the server without the collection....(which I don't wanna do, since today is a popular day)
So is it an addon crash or no?

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: MrPresident on March 07, 2016, 07:39:24 AM

It's hard to say. If they are telling you it is, it probably is.

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: ?VG? Nagato on March 07, 2016, 08:10:23 AM

Could you be able to help me out if I sent you a screenshot of the addons in the addons folder? Maybe see the collection?

Collection link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=524752976

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: MrPresident on March 07, 2016, 09:05:48 AM

No, that's not possible.
The only way to determine which addon is crashing your server is remove them one by one until your server stops crashing.

Title: Re: Server randomly restarts?
Post by: JamminR on March 07, 2016, 07:49:27 PM

And, start with removing any you added about a month ago when it seemed to have started.