[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#5433) Difficult to debug starting position troubles

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Cameron Morland wrote:
> 
> 
>>Currently if it is difficult to find sufficient starting positions, the
>>server will die with this message:
>>
>>"The server appears to have gotten into an infinite loop "
>>"in the allocation of starting positions, and will abort.\n"
>>"Please report this bug at " WEBSITE_URL
>>
>>This patch causes the server to save the map first, so it can be
>>examined and the reason for failure to create starting positions determined.
> 
> 
> Good patch, but can you produce settings that will actually crash the 
> server?  If you can, I will commit the patch.

I've seen it recently.  I don't have settings handy, though.  It may 
have been under gen-topologies.

jason