[b21] Game hangs at character registering

[eulf]

Title says it all, chat still gets updated it seems however. I'm really not sure where to start in terms of giving info in order to fix this. Using the linux no sound version, logged into a previous profile. Game works fine as long as I don't let the character get registered it seems.

Edit: after creating a character while logged out, it spews a line about online profile disabled due to bad game version. Going to give redownloading a shot I suppose.

Edit2: And now... it appears that I can't log into my old account with the redownloaded version.

[shwqa]

I as well can't log in with my account. I'm using windows no music version,

[jhauser42]

I had the exact same problem using the windows no music version. I killed the game, deleted the directory and downloaded the windows music version. This worked properly.

[eulf]

It appears that actually enabling sound/music managed to fix the hang up at character registering.

Edit: Disregard that, still hangs.

[Nagyhal]

Yes, the same happens to me. (Windows, with music, on my XP netbook.)

I just downloaded the game again on my brother's Vista desktop, and it is still happening.

I can generally get my new games to work by crashing the hung client, restarting and re-entering the same name that I chose. Then the game asks if I want to re-create that character, and it always seems to run correctly after I do that.

[martinuzz]

Sometimes for me too, when I create a new character, the game hangs at character registration. There's no stdout, since the only way to exit is by killing the process in the task manager.

I'm running XP pro SP3 on a AMD Turion64 X2 on a laptop.

So far, the second try does not hang, whenever this happens.

[Grey]

There is still an stdout file when you force-quit the application.

[jenx]

This happens a lot to me. It is very annoying.

[Hedrachi]

This bug still exists in b22. Very annoying when it happens. Can kill the game process by clicking the mouse, this un-freezes the mouse cursor and reverts it to the system mouse cursor, then click on the close button to stop music, click again to kill process with as near as I can tell nothing useful in the log. (log ends with generation of ego items)

[madmonk]

Can you run this with GDB and attach a stack trace to your post, please?

GDB instructions are here

http://te4.org/wiki/tome4-running-tome-gdb

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Happens to me sometimes too, but not consistently. I'd say 1/5 times I start a new character.

Also, attempting to recreate a hung character does seem to reproduce the hang up, but using the same name and recreating manually does not.

[Hedrachi]

Yeah. Very rarely happens to me, but can happen for quite a long time in a row. Usually only happens when I save & exit a character I played while logged in, then attempt to create a new one until my login session expires (I apparently stay logged in after this "crash-close," but I've yet to determine how long my profile stays logged in. Once or twice, it pretended to have succeeded (goes away at least) but it didn't register on my profile.