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

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, I need the settings to test the patch...