Many bugs in 1.8!

[IPS]

I was playing in a colosseum in 1.8 and the game was interrupt because this error.

Spoiler:

Title change "Curiusly bug in 1.8 wesnoth " to "Many bugs in 1.8!!"
Changed title from "Many bugs in 1.8!!" to "Many bugs in 1.8" -- shadowmaster

[Captain_Wrathbow]

WML child missing? A kidnapping? What a weird error...
I don't get it.

[Gambit]

They'll probably need more information. Do you have the save file handy?

[IPS]

This happened when a Naga atacked me (the drake).

This happened againist when a Merman hunter (lv3) atacked the ghost. This did make the same error.

[ancestral]

It's my understanding that the add-on hasn't been updated? It probably has code for which changed between 1.6 and 1.8, though it may be you've stumbled upon an error regardless.

[silene]

It's my understanding that the add-on hasn't been updated? It probably has code for which changed between 1.6 and 1.8

No, this error message is caused by a bug in the engine. (And according to the reports, in the multiplayer part.) In 1.6, the game would have simply crashed (null pointer dereferencing). In 1.8, you get this message instead. Unfortunately, the message itself isn't helpful for finding the bug.

[Zachron]

Not directly, yet it confirms the theoretical source of the bug... theoretically. lol. (I fear the prospect of ever having to do serious programming)

[Sangel]

No, this error message is caused by a bug in the engine. (And according to the reports, in the multiplayer part.) In 1.6, the game would have simply crashed (null pointer dereferencing). In 1.8, you get this message instead. Unfortunately, the message itself isn't helpful for finding the bug.

So hard crashes have been replaced by cryptic error messages? That's definitely progress.

[Mastix]

Just to let you know that you are not alone:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 04#p419904

[IPS]

1.- This is the first bug of today. Againist that bug, but this time in ANL... when a gobling atacks a peasant.

Spoiler:

2.- This is the 2nd bug of today. When I was triying to send a private message to a friend named Darkmage just in lobby, he is observing a room, I send him a whisper and after the first letter other error appears me. I was In the lobby, I clicked in "Friends rooms only", I clicked in Darkmage, I clicked in send a private message, and I wrote the first letter and I got this error

Just after that error, a bit before I could report the first bug :/

Spoiler:

3.- I had finally the 3rd bug of today, a thing is fail here finally... A bit after I reported the 2nd bug, I got a 3rd one... I did minimize the wesnoth to report the 2 first bugs and in a moment appears me the 3rd bug, with the next message:

Spoiler:

That is weird, 3 bugs in a day, I didnt had before this type of problems

[Leid]

yes, I have the sames bugs. Can I solve the problem? How? thanks

[beetlenaut]

I doubt this is really more than one bug. I suspect the first one caused BfW to become unstable, and the other bugs would not have occurred without it. Restarting BfW (instead of minimizing) might have prevented the second two. (I realize this doesn't help much, but it may explain why the release seems to be so buggy.)

[IPS]

Well... this type of things happens always in new vertions (in everything) because the changes aren't at all stable :/

[Mastix]

Yea, I stopped playing because of the WML error...

[Crab]

Big thanks for reporting!
I've just fixed that particular "Mandatory WML child missing..." bug. The fix is in branches/1.8 in [rev]42123[/rev] and in trunk in [rev]42125[/rev],
and the fix will be included in 1.8.1 and 1.9.0
The usual (not only) cause was 'host sending/receiving a chat message during AI attack'