knutson6@auscso.UUCP (John Knutson) (08/11/87)
I got the following error in nethack on level 38. "You cannot reach the floor. The Wizard of Yendor misses.--More--Bus error - core dumped". I had genocided dogs (after mine got killed) and blasted my way in with a wand of digging, casting a spell of levitation to go over the water. Looked like this: }---- I was floating over the amulet when I pressed "," and got that } @1- message. I had accumulated a lot of spells (9 or so) and it seems }---- that whenever I do that, it dumps core when I'm close to winning. The following output was taken from sdb here: nasty:422: mtmp->msleep = 0; *t [wizard.c:422] inrange(mtmp=0x8089ef64) [wizard.c:354] wiz_hit(mtmp=0x8089ef64) [wizard.c:100] mhitu(mtmp=0x8089ef64) [mhitu.c:92] dochug(mtmp=0x8089ef64) [monmove.c:120] dochugw(mtmp=0x8089ef64) [monmove.c:14] movemon() [mon.c:73] main(argc=2,argv=0xc002043c,0xc0020448) [main.c:259] Anybody know what happened and why? -- John Knutson {ihnp4,allegra,ut-sally}!ut-ngp!auscso!knutson6 "I see everything once!" -- Catch-22