Players stuck in loading screen "spawning items"

[Thoron]

since a while players sometimes stuck in loading screen "spawning items"

it happens only when:
there are more then 15 players
not every player is affected
when I set a char Alive = 0 in the Database, they can join.

I added some debug msgs to "player_monitor.fsm"
and it seems that they stuck at "progressLoadingScreen 0.85"
before they timeout (counter 120)

 

any ideas?

 

[salival]

Please attach vai google or pastebin a server RPT and a client RPT.

To find this logfile:

C:\users\<YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Arma 2 OA\ArmA2OA.RPT

[Thoron]

1 hour ago, salival said:

Please attach vai google or pastebin a server RPT and a client RPT.

To find this logfile:

C:\users\<YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Arma 2 OA\ArmA2OA.RPT

 

here you are:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xz81fxf9mcfgulc/ArmA2OA.RPT?dl=0

[salival]

On 9/26/2017 at 8:16 AM, Thoron said:

 

here you are:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xz81fxf9mcfgulc/ArmA2OA.RPT?dl=0

I can't see anything obvious in there, can you post your server RPT?

[Thoron]

I don't want to post my whole server rpt public. 

But I send you a PM.

[Thoron]

I found out, that BIS_fnc_init is not set, it keeps NIL while player_monitor.fsm is in "Steam" State (shows "spawning items" in loading screen for the player)

[Thug]

On 9/27/2017 at 6:11 PM, Thoron said:

BIS_fnc_init

Where is this located? We are having the same issue on our Sauerland server.

[icomrade]

13 hours ago, Thug said:

Where is this located? We are having the same issue on our Sauerland server.

The file which the error is resides in the ArmA 2 (NOT OA) data files. It was fixed in a corepatch a while ago, if you or your host do not keep your A2 and OA up to date on steam then you will get this error. additionally, if you or your host were lazy, and instead of properly adding the A2 addons PATH to your server's -mod parameter, but rather copied the A2 Addons files to your OA addons directory then your server will not reflect any A2 updates/fixes.

The main issue with doing this is that differing configs between server and client can cause various issues like vehicles or weapons breaking.