kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) (05/18/85)
...so there I was on level 8 with all the good powers bestowed on me by having eaten a floating eye, a leprechaun, and a killer bee. Having thoroughly raided whatchamacallit's shop, I possessed many good things including a ring of conflict, a wand of digging, etc. Eventually, I killed off all the monsters on the level, even a cockatrice. But no way could I leave the level, even by digging holes in the floor. At every hole and staircase, a "mysterious force" kept me from descending or ascending. Does anyone know how to overcome the force? I was not able to correlate it with anything that I was carrying. -- Herb Kanner Tymnet, Inc.
andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (05/23/85)
> ...so there I was on level 8 with all the good powers bestowed on me by > having eaten a floating eye, a leprechaun, and a killer bee. Having > thoroughly raided whatchamacallit's shop, I possessed many good things > including a ring of conflict, a wand of digging, etc. Eventually, I killed > off all the monsters on the level, even a cockatrice. But no way could I > leave the level, even by digging holes in the floor. At every hole and > staircase, a "mysterious force" kept me from descending or ascending. > > Does anyone know how to overcome the force? I was not able to correlate it > with anything that I was carrying. When you change levels, the system creates a disk file describing the new level. If it is unable to make a lock file during this operation, you get the "mysterious force" message. The comment in the source says that this could be due to disk quota overflow or to a write-locked directory. It might also be that the lock file was already there and wasn't writable by you. In any event, nothing that you type to hack (except perhaps shell-escape) can overcome this problem. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]
ab@unido.UUCP (05/24/85)
Most likely you didn't fix the "out-of-filedescriptor"-bug and after using the /-command for about 18 times you ran out of filedescriptors and the system couldn't create new level files. Andreas -- Andreas Bormann ab@unido.UUCP University of Dortmund N 51 29' 05" E 07 24' 42" West Germany