Doing ATC at EDDF yesterday (3/4/2010) on FGFS 1.9.1 (under Ubuntu) suddenly at about 2100 GMT the distance measurements did not work any more. In the Log Window is shown:
Checking my code, I found that this is caused by target "evils2", which I could not find in whole Europe. Via MPchat I found it in South-Africa, in the open water west of Nigeria, the MPchat data being:Nasal runtime error: floating point error in math.sin()
at /usr/share/FlightGear/data/Nasal/geo.nas, line 173
By the way: The target has not moved the last 12 h! Anyhow: How does it get into my Pilot-List, showing usually just a 100 mi radius??evils2, c130, mpserver12, (0.0000, 0.0000)
In the FGFS 1.9.1. Network-->Pilot-list it is listed as:
I guess this altitude "nan" is causing the problem!callsign = evils2, model = (blank), hdg = 0, dist-nm = 0.00, alt-ft = nan
By the way: Since then all targets in the PilotList show model=(blank), distance = 0, but altitude working OK (except "nan" for evils2).
In FGFS ver. 2. the PilotList cannot be opened at all (I guess it has a similar breakout like in my ATC-Program (floating-point-error).
PS: I was working in EDDF in MPserver08, but several coplayers verified the same happening at other MPservers!
Can anybody help -- for this instance and also against that happenings in future???
joe
===>> just see: Somebody fixed already.
But not sure if just the target "evils2" was removed or there was a real problem in MPservers!
Anyhow: Thank you very much for this super-fast reaction (fixed before reported!)
One addition: You MPserverGuys are really great: Last week I saw several times 75 active users - and it worked fine (1 year ago the limit was about 30). Real nice job!
joe