NeoPariah

Looks like that was it. We're no longer able to reproduce the issue. It has done the go-away-and-come-back-later thing, but I suspect we've got it solved. It's really irritating that we didn't think of that, as we're both professional troubleshooters. Thanks.

We've found that the crashes are pretty readily reproduceable. These crashes occur the first time dash tries to connect after a server restart while an older player dat is in place. He connects without issue after a server restart if there is no player dat or a recently created one. But, we have tried having him go off of a new dat, and the issue returns later. So, it seems something is lightly corrupting his dat over time. Current suspect is his meteor shield, as it's the only block we can think of that changes how it's rendered based on a player. He's moved it out of the cloud layer, in case intersecting with that is causing the issue. We've also forced a color on it with /kittyattack. We'll see how that goes...

Got some more info on this issue from the server side. This issue only effects dash16, out of half a dozen or so players. It occurs with multiple clients on his end, so it's doubtful anything client-side is messed up. We discovered last night that removing his player dat, having him connect and disconnect once, then putting his player dat back resolved the issue. So it appears that something other than the dat is breaking, and gets fixed when he connects while his dat is missing. Here's what the server console shows when he trys to connect: 2013-07-25 19:31:18 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] Loading Player: dash16 2013-07-25 19:31:18 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] Sending serverside check to: dash16 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.java:116) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at org.bouncycastle.crypto.io.CipherInputStream.nextChunk(Unknown Source) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at org.bouncycastle.crypto.io.CipherInputStream.read(Unknown Source) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.java:66) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at net.minecraft.network.packet.Packet.func_73272_a(Packet.java:144) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at net.minecraft.network.TcpConnection.func_74447_i(TcpConnection.java:327) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at net.minecraft.network.TcpConnection.func_74450_c(TcpConnection.java:547) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDERR] at net.minecraft.network.TcpReaderThread.run(SourceFile:94) 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [Minecraft-Server] dash16 lost connection: disconnect.genericReason 2013-07-25 19:31:56 [iNFO] [sTDOUT] Unloading Player: dash16 The first connection once an instance of this issue starts occurring will have disconnect.EndOfStream instead, but is otherwise identical.

This issue resolved itself a few hours later. I'd also encountered it when booted into Windows. Since no one else reported it, I'd guess there was some weird networking glitch between here and there that was making the server respond improperly. It'd be nice if this error didn't prevent the launch of what one already has downloaded, though.

Launcher Version: 253 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.8.3 Java Version: 1.6.0 Antivirus Program: None Description of Problem: The launcher will not launch games. The Login button depresses for a while, then I get the error "Error retrieving information for selected pack: Hexxit", with similar errors from other packs. Judging from the log and the fact that I can't surf to it, it appears solder.technicpack.net is either failing to respond or throwing HTTP 502 errors. Error Messages: Error retrieving information for selected pack: Hexxit Error Log: Loaded face Starting download of http://skins.technicpack.net/helm/NeoPariah/100, with 3 tries remaining org.spoutcraft.launcher.exceptions.RestfulAPIException: Error accessing URL [http://solder.technicpack.net/api/modpack/hexxit/1.0.1] at org.spoutcraft.launcher.rest.RestAPI.getRestObject(RestAPI.java:376) at org.spoutcraft.launcher.rest.RestAPI.getModpack(RestAPI.java:116) at org.spoutcraft.launcher.technic.RestInfo.getModpack(RestInfo.java:130) at org.spoutcraft.launcher.skin.TechnicLoginFrame.action(TechnicLoginFrame.java:523) at org.spoutcraft.launcher.skin.TechnicLoginFrame.actionPerformed(TechnicLoginFrame.java:490) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2028) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2351) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6414) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3275) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6179) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2083) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4776) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2141) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4604) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4619) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4280) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4210) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2127) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2489) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4604) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:717) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(EventQueue.java:82) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:676) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:674) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:86) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:97) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:690) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:688) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:86) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:687) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 502 for URL: http://solder.technicpack.net/api/modpack/hexxit/1.0.1 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1436) at org.spoutcraft.launcher.rest.RestAPI.getRestObject(RestAPI.java:366) ... 41 more