Shipyard Design Null Pointer Exception

[andywm]

I run a small server for a few friends, however since the last update whenever anyone uses a shipyard in my server their client crashes, issuing a null pointer exception.

This happens with all shipyard designs, existing ones from before the update, and any new design created afterwards. Is anyone else experiencing this? Or at least, any troubleshooting ideas?

Server Information:
StarMade Version; 0.199.132 # 20160802_134223
Server: sm.andywm.com:4242

Hardware; i5 4460 @ 3.2GHz, 8gb memory.
System Configuration; Arch Linux 4.6.4, using open-jdk8, all running basically headless. All software is 64 bit.
StarMade Configuration; StarMadeConfigs/server.cfg at master · InverseReaction/StarMadeConfigs · GitHub
My StarMade-dedicated-server-linux.sh file is as follows; (allocating 7gb of memory to the game)
#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
java -Xms1024m -Xmx7168m -jar StarMade.jar -server

Client Log Extract:

[2016-08-03 17:13:38] [CLIENT] Shipyard: Entering Design Ship[Test Ship](444)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception: REQUESTED TYPE 0 IS NULL
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.game.common.data.element.ElementKeyMap.getInfo(SourceFile:611)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.dP.b(SourceFile:310)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.BE.callback(SourceFile:558)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.schine.network.client.GUICallbackController.execute(SourceFile:64)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.aIz.a(SourceFile:188)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.E.updateStateInput(SourceFile:1468)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.azj.a(SourceFile:653)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.azp.b(SourceFile:626)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.Q.e(SourceFile:907)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.game.common.Starter.startMainMenu(SourceFile:1368)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.game.common.Starter.main(SourceFile:946)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] [GLFRAME] THROWN: class java.lang.NullPointerException Now Printing StackTrace
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception: REQUESTED TYPE 0 IS NULL
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.game.common.data.element.ElementKeyMap.getInfo(SourceFile:611)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.dP.b(SourceFile:310)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.BE.callback(SourceFile:558)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.schine.network.client.GUICallbackController.execute(SourceFile:64)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.aIz.a(SourceFile:188)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.E.updateStateInput(SourceFile:1468)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.azj.a(SourceFile:653)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.azp.b(SourceFile:626)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at obfuscated.Q.e(SourceFile:907)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.game.common.Starter.startMainMenu(SourceFile:1368)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] at org.schema.game.common.Starter.main(SourceFile:946)
[2016-08-03 17:13:38] [GLFRAME] THROWN: class java.lang.NullPointerExceptionPrinting StackTrace DONE​

 

[nightrune]

andywm, I believe this is a known issue. I can't find a phab ticket on it though. The best I can say is avoid shipyards for now. I'm waiting on a response from Lancake. Its quite late where he is so it might be a bit before we get a definitive answer.

 

[andywm]

nightrune Oh, okay. Fair enough.

 

[Lancake]

It is caused by the "Edit a design" button. It doesn't leave permanent damage though, restarting the server and possibly even unloading the sector should reset the shipyard and get it unstuck.

You can still edit a design, but you need to enter the ship core manually. A fix for this should be included for the next hot fix.

 

[Resheph]

Same issue here. I get booted out as soon as I hit edit design and the "Place Order" option is greyed out with the design still loaded when I log in.

 

[brianmanee]

The NullReferenceException is designed as a valid runtime condition that can be thrown and caught in normal program flow. It indicates that you are trying to access member fields, or function types, on an object reference that points to null. That means the reference to an Object which is not initialized.

Manee

 

[Valck]

The NullReferenceException is designed as a valid runtime condition that can be thrown and caught in normal program flow. It indicates that you are trying to access member fields, or function types, on an object reference that points to null. That means the reference to an Object which is not initialized.

Manee

Nobody's denying that, but if it is uncaught and obviously leads to a client crash, there was a problem there. Also, logspam.