From: "Kevin Dethlefs" <Demortes@MSN.COM>
> According to syslog and your log positions....
>
> log("setup_new_poll: Starting setup of poll #%d", polls_top);
> polls_index[polls_top].number = pollnum;
<snip>
> is the prob.
I'm afraid your polls_index isn't set up right. If you get
a SegFault in that line, it's because polls_top is either
less than zero, or above the range for polls_index.
What did it log ?
I'm quite sure this is related to the loading problem, since, in
a part of the patch (I had to look for myself [1]) it says:
+ case DB_BOOT_POLLS:
+ CREATE(polls_index, struct polls_data, rec_count+1);
+ polls_top = rec_count - 1;
+ break;
And, if you can't read the file, it will set polls_top to -1.
I must assume you've followed the patch step by step.
> remember that I had problems with my index directory.... the double slash
> deal and so on. Now what?
Make sure your define in db.h looks like this:
#define PLS_PREFIX LIB_TEXT"polls"SLASH /* For polls files */
And make sure the file
./lib/text/polls/index
contains
polls.pls
$~
Welcor
[1] a simple link would have done it :
ftp://ftp.circlemud.org/pub/CircleMUD/contrib/code/players/poll.patch.gz
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