[comp.sources.games.bugs] MDG Daemon not responding!!!!

portside@cbnewsm.att.com (glen.r.zdroik) (02/22/91)

Does anyone else have the problem of the Daemon not reponding for MDG????

I orignally thought that this was due to the absence of the default player
file but thats not the case. I now have a default now as well as a 
created player file and I still get no daemon response.

things to note: 1) I have not set any UID's yet, I own everything
		2) I had to use the termcap library instead of the tinfo
		   library for the compile, we only have the former
		3) GAME_HOME is the same as /usr/games as referred in the
		   README file
		4) the mdg_daemon is a CPU hog and the mdg_stop program 
		   does not work, I must do a manual kill to stop the clock
		   and the daemon.
		5) I've looked through the code and found nothing obvious.
	
Any Help or Suggestions?? (I really don't want to do a major hack)


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pee9901@isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila ) (02/22/91)

 I had the same problem here when I tried to complile. 
 Same errors
 Same messages

P. Erkkila

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doug@letni.lonestar.org (Doug Davis) (02/22/91)

In article <1991Feb21.183300.7377@cbnewsm.att.com> portside@cbnewsm.att.com (glen.r.zdroik) writes:
>
>Does anyone else have the problem of the Daemon not reponding for MDG????
>

Yes, it appears to be an absense of the players/default file..  Looking
in the code my guess is you need something that looks like the below,
hopfully the author will provide the correct stuff shortly.

#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line, then unpack
# it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file".  To overwrite existing
# files, type "sh file -c".  You can also feed this as standard input via
# unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g..  If this archive is complete, you
# will see the following message at the end:
#		"End of shell archive."
# Contents:  players/default
# Wrapped by doug@letni on Fri Feb 22 09:02:51 1991
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH
if test -f 'players/default' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then 
  echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'players/default'\"
else
echo shar: Extracting \"'players/default'\" \(98 characters\)
sed "s/^X//" >'players/default' <<'END_OF_FILE'
X
X0
X1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
X1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
X20:20
X20:20
X28
X[0/0]
X6
X36453737
X0
al = 0
END_OF_FILE
if test 98 -ne `wc -c <'players/default'`; then
    echo shar: \"'players/default'\" unpacked with wrong size!
fi
# end of 'players/default'
fi
echo shar: End of shell archive.
exit 0

gandalf@spock.UUCP (Mark Halstead) (02/23/91)

In article <1991Feb21.204932.15026@isc.rit.edu> pee9901@isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila ) writes:
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> I had the same problem here when I tried to complile. 
>

Same here, compiling with the diffs for SunOS 4.1.1. Is this only a
problem with the SunOS?  Any help...please?


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djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) (02/23/91)

In article <1991Feb22.150433.8645@letni.lonestar.org> doug@letni.lonestar.org (Doug Davis) writes:
>In article <1991Feb21.183300.7377@cbnewsm.att.com> portside@cbnewsm.att.com (glen.r.zdroik) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone else have the problem of the Daemon not reponding for MDG????
>>
>
>Yes, it appears to be an absense of the players/default file..

Also, a very important point not mentioned in the docs is that
there needs to be a binary directory in mdg_dir/bin.
The mdg_clock needs to be in that directory.
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grady@fx.com (Steven Grady) (02/23/91)

portside@cbnewsm.att.com (glen.r.zdroik) writes:


>Does anyone else have the problem of the Daemon not reponding for MDG????

>I orignally thought that this was due to the absence of the default player
>file but thats not the case. I now have a default now as well as a 
>created player file and I still get no daemon response.

Have you checked the errorLog?  Perhaps you didn't install ident or
mdg_clock in bin?  Did you restart the daemon after installing players/default?
After getting everything installed correctly, including a default file,
things worked for me.

BTW, mdg_stop works fine for me.
(This was on a sun4 running SunOS 4.1.1...)
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frank@grebyn.com (Frank 'Scruff' Miller) (02/25/91)

Same problem with ARIX (SYSV variant).....

Just had to toss in my .02.....