Server crashes on mission load.

[izShelby]

Disclaimer: I don't know if this is still maintained. Also I noted that there's already an issue open about this, however the poster fixed his problem.

Issue: When I start the server and join the server will crash while the client shows "Receiving Mission file: 01kb/XXkb"
Now I used to play on Panthera and the server would actually start every few restarts without crashing but now that I switched to Lingor it doesn't work anymore. I did a full fresh install and tried debugging everything but no luck.

Starting the server without screen (so you can see crash messages) yields:

 1:28:16 Dedicated host created.
 1:28:17 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.194)
 1:28:17 Host identity created.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 33930
ArmA 2 OA Console version 1.63 : port 2302
 1:28:31 Shelby uses modified data file
 1:28:31 BattlEye Server: Player #0 Shelby (*censored*) connected
 1:28:31 Player Shelby connecting.
 1:28:31 Mission DayZ Epoch Lingor read from bank.
 1:28:32 BattlEye Server: Player #0 Shelby - GUID: c795e87d2f0a390f2ce11c72a5657ca5 (unverified)
 1:28:32 Player Shelby connected (id=76561198037813351).
76561198037813351 => Shelby
Save player: /games/epoch/cache/players/1/76561198037813351.sqf
 1:28:32 BattlEye Server: Verified GUID (c795e87d2f0a390f2ce11c72a5657ca5) of player #0 Shelby
 1:28:33 BattlEye Server: Player #0 Shelby - Legacy GUID: 6d75942024c0f0ae75c4d1191da2f1ae
 1:28:33 Roles assigned.
 1:28:33 Reading mission ...
Segmentation fault

And that's that.

[deannreid]

Make sure you have used the tolower file and that every file is lower-case and make sure you installed both the 32 libs and 64 libs as that is a cause for the error.

[izShelby]

Everything is lowercase and all the libs are installed. I have to admit, on debian 7 it's a bit of a hack job to get the server to run but for the sake of this issue everything is in place. It is also not a file permission issue and I would be surprised if that could cause a memory error. So sadly the problem still persists.

[skoozeblood]

Was there ever a fix for this?

[deannreid]

Can't say that I remember - was quite a while ago now and I'm pretty sure the 1.7 update broke things more but I started working on DayZ Standalone stuff so I never updated my version of these files. I'm on a business trip for the next few days so I can have a look when I return is it the same error your getting?

[deannreid]

You could possibly follow this to generate a stacktrace when the segmentation fault happens. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77005/how-to-automatically-generate-a-stacktrace-when-my-program-crashes/77336#77336

this might give you more info as to why it happens

[BangL]

Are you having mission folder/files?
From my experience its better to use a pbo