[dataCache.badData]: Could not read data cache

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:52 pm

What's that error message in the log, never seen it before:

[dataCache.badData]: Could not read data cache: in getBytes:range:, range { 36006720, 2276 } extends beyond size (36007936)

I have the DebugOxp running.

L

Post by **another_commander** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:55 pm

How are you doing with disk space? Did this come up the first time you launched the game after a crash? Does it happen continuously or was it a one-off?

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:01 pm

Disk space is quite enough, there was no crash the session this happened, and it happened the first time and, as far as I know, just this once yet.

But as I am testing the "Oolite Extended" meta-oxp, I was wondering if it pointed to some as-of-yet unknown problem in there. The oxp has nearly 900MB ...

Does that help?

L

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:04 pm

My inclination is to assume that this is a bug in GNUstep’s binary property list code, although it could also have happened as a result of a crash while writing the cache.

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:51 pm

OK, question one:

... a bug in GNUstep’s binary property list code ...

That would imply that it is not a buggy plist or script somewhere in the oxp?

[ai.load.failed.unknownAI]: Can't switch AI for <ShipEntity 0x18bd8818>{"Docking Slit (horizontal)"} from <no AI>:(nil) to " nullAI.plist" - could not load file.

And, while we're at it, what's that? (I mean, I can see that an AI is not there, but what for does a Docking Slit need an AI?

)

Cheers

L

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:09 pm

The horizontal docking slit has no AI what-so-ever (Because it's a subentity?), so it can't switch from no AI to nullAI.

Why would you be trying to switch AI's on a docking slit anyways?

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:11 pm

Cmd. Cheyd wrote:
The horizontal docking slit has no AI what-so-ever (Because it's a subentity?), so it can't switch from no AI to nullAI.

Why would you be trying to switch AI's on a docking slit anyways?

Exactly my thoughts. I think the Debug.oxp caught that one and I have no idea as of yet where this is coming from. And yes, it's quite weird.

L

Post by **another_commander** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:23 pm

The Debug oxp is unrelated to that. Try a search for "Docking Slit (horizontal)" in your AddOns folder and you might be able to find the location of this one.

Post by **Kaks** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:35 pm

Two things, the bad data error message is basically saying that a particular subset of data is actually longer than it should be, and it normally happens when a file (apparently the cache file - in this case) is somehow corrupted. It can't read some data, but whether the data itself is buggy or not is another question altogether.

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Reading the error message it looks like someone somewhere specifically defined a docking slit ai as " nullAI.plist" nothing too horrible in and of itself, I suppose, but the error message is because oolite cannot find the specified file. Why? Because of a typo. According to the error message it's looking for a file with a name starting with a space: " nullAI.plist" is different to "nullAI.plist". Do look for that specific string (the one that starts with a space), fix the typo, and suddenly you won't have that error anymore. As if by magic.

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:28 pm

Kaks - gotcha!

Your "magic" worked and the offending nullAI.plist is now without the unnescessary space.

Thanks

L