Anyone know what this is?

[RabidBat]

NOT FACING:::: (8, -9, 100)[Rail Basic]o[FRONT][active][100hp][jD]

It's spamming the console on our server.

thought the 8 -9 100 were co-ordinates, but there is nothing at that location except a shop that does not have rails on it.

 

[jstenholt]

If I'm not mistaken, those are block coordinates on an entity. Ensure your rails are all operating normally and that there is no random docked entity being glitched into a wall or something.

 

[RabidBat]

cheers, but how do I find the location of the offending block?

 

[jstenholt]

Guess and check, process of elimination, take your pick.

 

[NTIMESc]

The Ship Core is at (8, 8, 8), so the offender is in line with the core, 17 blocks down, and 92 blocks forward.

An easy way to check is to place a block for a system that you don't have on the ship, then check it's coordinates in the Entity Structure.

 

[RabidBat]

The Ship Core is at (8, 8, 8), so the offender is in line with the core, 17 blocks down, and 92 blocks forward.

An easy way to check is to place a block for a system that you don't have on the ship, then check it's coordinates in the Entity Structure.

Yeah I kind of meant find the sector/location that the offending entity is in to begin with.

 

[NTIMESc]

Perhaps look just before the first occurrence for an entity being loaded.

 

[AndyP]

Its a coordinate inside an entity,
yes, its not useful to not state the entity name itself.

But that message means exactly:
There is a rail block to move on but its NOT FACING the right direction to move on.

Like a rail pointing on a side of another rail block. And an entity waits on the rail and repeatedly tries to move on it.

(Yes its debug information, and if you do not watch your console for hours to see what player needs to log out to stop it, its almost impossible to find the exact source for this. So better ignore it, or face the hell of a headache to get to the source.)

- Andy

 

[RabidBat]

Thank you for the explanation AndyP much appreciated.

I think I know who is causing it, just have to watch the players coming and going to confirm I suppose.
maybe could be added in a future update that errors report their co-ords so admins can deal with them if it's possible, this one is more annoying than game breaking thankfully, but sometimes they are and it's nice to be able to shoot it down quick without a great deal of guessing.

 

[djthekiller]

or heres what you do, you hit f7 and see whats causing the lag

 

[RabidBat]

or heres what you do, you hit f7 and see whats causing the lag

Actually no. Because it doesn't show in the f7 menu and is unrelated to lag, it's is one of a few error messages related to rails that spams the server console and makes life difficult as an admin.
Also the f7 lag-o-meter is all but useless, more often than not it shows everything but the cause of lag on a server.