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0005283Dwarf FortressWorld Generation -- Generalpublic2012-02-18 18:212014-07-14 10:29
Reporterbrcruchairman Assigned ToToady One  
PriorityurgentSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
PlatformPCOSWindows 7OS Version6.1
Product Version0.34.02 
Fixed in Version0.40.04 
Summary0005283: Crash upon accepting/saving a generated world when old-version saves are present
DescriptionAfter going to "create a new world" when running DF 34.02, world gen goes fine, but once the world was made, after one has the chance to scroll around the map a bit, pressing the enter key ("Enter: Accept") the game has uniformly crashed. This was tried on everything from a pocket to large map, very short to very long histories, and many other permutations of standard settings. Advanced world gen was not tried.
Steps To ReproduceFrom main menu, go to "Create New World!", select any of the standard options, and press "enter" to accept the generated map.
Additional InformationThis was the error message given by windows:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: Dwarf Fortress.exe
  Application Version: 0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 4f3f88bc
  Fault Module Name: MSVCR100.dll
  Fault Module Version: 10.0.30319.1
  Fault Module Timestamp: 4ba1dbbe
  Exception Code: 40000015
  Exception Offset: 0008d635
  OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: 53ab
  Additional Information 2: 53ab78575e4e4ce741bf82bee235390b
  Additional Information 3: e3b1
  Additional Information 4: e3b1a94473822fda201cb488de46c708
TagsNo tags attached.

Relationships

related to 0000136 new When embarking on large area, DF hits 2GB memory limit and crashes 
has duplicate 0005303 resolveduser6 Dwarf Fortress Crashes upon Accepting World Generation. 
has duplicate 0005053 resolveduser6 Crash at the end of worldgen 
has duplicate 0005395 resolveduser6 World Gen Crash 
has duplicate 0005515 resolveduser6 Game crashes on acceptance of newly generated world 
has duplicate 0005525 resolvedLogical2u Game crashes when accepting a generated world - SDL and memory related 
has duplicate 0005861 resolveduser6 Crashes after generating a new world 
has duplicate 0005978 resolveduser6 Giant silt pillars taken from ground at embark. 
has duplicate 0007018 resolveduser6 CTD on "accept" in world gen 
has duplicate 0007034 resolveduser6 Segmentation fault when worldgen begins to save world. 
has duplicate 0007230 resolveduser11 Crash when creating new adventurer 
has duplicate 0007252 resolveduser6 crash during or right after "offloading" after accepting generated world 
has duplicate 0007470 resolveduser6 Game crashes upon trying to enter a world after world generation 
related to 0006806 resolveduser6 Crash after creating the world 
related to 0003968 resolveduser6 Crash on loading a map for embarking (after overwriting 31.18 with 31.19) 

Activities

brcruchairman

2012-02-19 00:00

reporter   ~0020096

Last edited: 2012-02-19 00:23

 Just tried this again in an Einsteinian Insane fashion; apparently, this bug exists on the SDL download, but not the Legacy download. That is, attempting the exact same steps on a Legacy download works normally, no crash, but on an SDL download, I couldn't avoid the crash. Not sure what this means, but I figure it'll be dismissed if it was just user error.
---Edit 2/19/2012---
After messing around with this some more, I discovered that it has less to do with an SDL versus Legacy download so much as the directory the install was put in. Both the SDL and Legacy downloads, when put in my old DF directory of C:\Dwarf Fortress, would not run. However, both of the same downloads when put in my download folder (e.g., C:\Users\Andrew W\Downloads\df_34_02_win) would work. Perhaps this has more to do with the directory than the version?

user6

2012-02-19 08:06

  ~0020123

Can you confirm that it has anything to do with whether the map has been scrolled around?

brcruchairman

2012-02-21 14:09

reporter   ~0020413

Yes, I can confirm that it's independent of map scrolling; pressing enter immediately upon the completion of the world results in the same error, given that it's in a C:\Dwarf Fortress directory. Scrolling when playing on the game located in my download directory, scrolling did not interfere with the saving of the world; I can play just fine in that directory, just not at all in the C:\Dwarf Fortress one. Now I wish I could figure out how to change the bug report's urgency from “urgent” to “minor” when the workaround is so easy, and problem is so specific.

Xotano

2012-02-22 11:05

reporter   ~0020473

strange i don't seem to have that problem. but i did have a different one that went with aborting world gen early, wasn't really a crash tho.

Logical2u

2012-03-03 13:13

manager   ~0021030

brcruchairman, can you see if this is a problem due to DF running out of memory with your SDL download? The specific error message you reported has been around for a long time and I suspect that memory usage is to blame.

brcruchairman

2012-04-24 01:40

reporter   ~0022364

I can try; how would I go about doing that? Is there some program I'd run, or some setting I'd change?

marq

2012-04-24 09:51

reporter   ~0022369

Additional info: I tried to convert some saves from 0.31.25 When DF failed to recognize them, I went ahead and tried to generate a new world, without removing the old files from the save directory. Same error, crashes on accept. Did this several times with a clean install. Removed the save files, tried again, bug averted.

Solarius Scorch

2012-05-14 13:18

reporter   ~0022496

I confirm marq's case: after removing old worlds from the previous versions, the bug no longer occurred.

brcruchairman

2012-06-07 20:15

reporter   ~0022898

Well, one way or another, this bug is gone as of 0.34.11; I downloaded the newest version, put it in my C:\Dwarf Fortress directory, generated a new world on totally standard settings, and it saved just fine. Tried again with a pocket dimension, very short history and the same thing. Whatever it was, the issue appears to be fixed.

velusip

2012-07-05 20:17

reporter   ~0023167

Are you sure this isn't some sort of permissions issue?

e.g. I was getting this same problem with Linux version 0.34.11 until I cleared the "current" and "region1" directories out of my saves with incorrect permissions:
/opt/df_linux/data/save

Depending on your distribution/installation method your saves might be stowed elsewhere.

darklord92

2014-07-11 12:15

reporter   ~0025822

Can confirm permissions issue as above, clearing out the saves directory fixed it for me.

blockplanner

2014-07-13 21:52

reporter   ~0026276

Issue seems to be present in the latest version. Clearing out an old save fixed the crash on an otherwise brand new extracted windows SDL 0.40.03

dree12

2014-07-14 07:20

reporter   ~0026318

Last edited: 2014-07-14 07:22

 I ran across this issue recently and have diagnosed its cause. Basically, the game does not delete files from the old world when overwriting it with the new world's files. This means there are many files that are not related to the new world. One way to fix it is to sort the files by "last modified" date and delete the files that were last modified before the rest, as they are leftover files from the old world.

There is no other corruption aside from that.

When the two versions are very similar but still incompatible, like in 0007230 between 0.40.02 and 0.40.03, there is the additional twist that often the world *will* save properly. Some actions are even possible without immediate crashing, such as running the calendar before playing.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2012-02-18 18:21 brcruchairman New Issue
2012-02-19 00:00 brcruchairman Note Added: 0020096
2012-02-19 00:23 brcruchairman Note Edited: 0020096
2012-02-19 08:06 user6 Note Added: 0020123
2012-02-19 08:06 user6 Tag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE
2012-02-19 11:07 Logical2u Relationship added related to 0005303
2012-02-21 14:09 brcruchairman Note Added: 0020413
2012-02-22 09:04 user6 Relationship replaced has duplicate 0005303
2012-02-22 09:04 user6 Relationship added related to 0005053
2012-02-22 09:05 user6 Summary Saving a generated world crashes dwarf fortress => Accepting/saving a generated world crashes dwarf fortress
2012-02-22 09:06 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0005395
2012-02-22 09:06 user6 Summary Accepting/saving a generated world crashes dwarf fortress => Crash upon accepting/saving a generated world
2012-02-22 11:05 Xotano Note Added: 0020473
2012-02-29 20:19 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0005515
2012-03-01 19:55 Logical2u Relationship added has duplicate 0005525
2012-03-03 13:13 Logical2u Note Added: 0021030
2012-03-12 12:19 user6 Relationship added related to 0000136
2012-04-24 01:40 brcruchairman Note Added: 0022364
2012-04-24 09:51 marq Note Added: 0022369
2012-05-14 08:58 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0005861
2012-05-14 13:18 Solarius Scorch Note Added: 0022496
2012-05-14 15:53 user6 Summary Crash upon accepting/saving a generated world => Crash upon accepting/saving a generated world when old-version saves are present
2012-06-04 06:29 user6 Relationship added related to 0005978
2012-06-06 13:33 user6 Relationship added related to 0005161
2012-06-06 13:34 user6 Relationship deleted related to 0005161
2012-06-07 20:15 brcruchairman Note Added: 0022898
2012-07-05 20:17 velusip Note Added: 0023167
2014-01-20 19:42 user6 Relationship replaced has duplicate 0005978
2014-01-26 08:44 user6 Relationship replaced has duplicate 0005053
2014-07-11 07:27 user6 Relationship added related to 0005238
2014-07-11 07:28 user6 Relationship deleted related to 0005238
2014-07-11 07:28 user6 Relationship added related to 0007018
2014-07-11 07:28 user6 Relationship added child of 0006780
2014-07-11 07:28 user6 Relationship replaced related to 0006780
2014-07-11 07:29 user6 Relationship deleted related to 0006780
2014-07-11 07:29 user6 Relationship added related to 0006806
2014-07-11 07:30 user6 Relationship replaced has duplicate 0007018
2014-07-11 07:30 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0007034
2014-07-11 08:12 user6 Tag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE
2014-07-11 12:15 darklord92 Note Added: 0025822
2014-07-13 21:52 blockplanner Note Added: 0026276
2014-07-13 23:51 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0007230
2014-07-13 23:51 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0007252
2014-07-13 23:51 user6 Relationship added related to 0003968
2014-07-14 07:20 dree12 Note Added: 0026318
2014-07-14 07:20 dree12 Note Edited: 0026318
2014-07-14 07:22 dree12 Note Edited: 0026318
2014-07-14 10:29 Toady One Status new => resolved
2014-07-14 10:29 Toady One Fixed in Version => Next Version
2014-07-14 10:29 Toady One Resolution open => fixed
2014-07-14 10:29 Toady One Assigned To => Toady One
2014-07-18 22:42 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0007470