Bug Semirare counters not being saved
- Thread starter Theraze
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I at a fortune cookie on day 1 of my current ascension and picked up the semirare on day 2 (today), so it's working properly for me.
roippi
Developer
Are you talking about the semirare window counters then?
Are they properly generated when you get a semirare, but just aren't saved? Or...?
edit: and it is not related to 11725 or 11726, because the latter reverted the former. 11727 explicitly only affects the fullness and spleen preferences, so that's not it either.
Are they properly generated when you get a semirare, but just aren't saved? Or...?
edit: and it is not related to 11725 or 11726, because the latter reverted the former. 11727 explicitly only affects the fullness and spleen preferences, so that's not it either.
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Bale
Minion
I can not replicate this.
Theraze, if that is not a good way to replicate this bug, then please tell me the steps to follow. I suspect you're doing something odd.
- I just logged into a test character and adventured until I got a semi-rare.
- "Semirare window begin" and "Semirare window end" counters acquired!
- I then logged out and quit mafia.
- Restarted mafia and logged into the same character
- I still have my "Semirare window begin" and "Semirare window end" counters.
Theraze, if that is not a good way to replicate this bug, then please tell me the steps to follow. I suspect you're doing something odd.
Maybe try logging in after rollover to see if they are still there? If they are, then that would make it more definitively something on Theraze's end.
Theraze
Active member
It's happened on 2-4 characters over the last week every time it goes to Semirare window begin/end. It stays that day, but I don't tend to login/out on the same character, so... I'll let another character lose their semirare and login a few more times and try to see when mafia loses it. It's been on a variety of versions of mafia though, and it was happening before I started trying to debug CounterChecker, so... I'll add more information or we can see if Bale notes it after rollover.
Theraze
Active member
I log into my first character through the GUI, then change characters using the login <name> command when finished. The logout script is:
The ideas.ash is the one that DoctorRotelle linked a while ago hosted at:
http://whovian.zapto.org/kol/scripts/ideas.ash
Mine says that it's version 269.
Edit: Okay, here's my first character, end of today:
The login script is:
The last character is logged off through using the exit command.
The ideas.ash is the one that DoctorRotelle linked a while ago hosted at:
http://whovian.zapto.org/kol/scripts/ideas.ash
Mine says that it's version 269.
Edit: Okay, here's my first character, end of today:
And on the second:
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Bale
Minion
That means you lost your Shore counter and Fortune Cookie counter, not Semirare Window counters. It makes more sense that you'd lose all your counters rather than only a specific type of counter. It's good we got more information, but we don't know how to reliably reproduce the problem...
roippi
Developer
Like Bale says. In the "login won't work" thread, he provided a SSCCE and I was able to identify and fix the problem within 10 minutes of reading his post. Not exaggerating. Here, we've gone through more than a page of posts and just now identified what the actual bug is. We've yet to get to the steps-to-repeat part.
I can confirm this bug, and will add what I can to the bug report. That said, I have to apologize that this is quite the mysterious bug, as it doesn't happen consistently. So I can't provide a method of reproducing it. Hopefully the stuff below will jog something in the mind of someone else who has this problem, and we can find a common thread.
KoLmafia version: r11844 currently, but the problem has happened (for me) as far back as December, at least. It's possible it's been doing it farther back than that. Perhaps even since the account was created (September), and it just took me a while to notice.
OS and related: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I download the latest .jar from builds.kolmafia.us every few days
Like Theraze, I am losing fortune cookie/semirare counters on rollover (this does not appear to happen between multiple logins on the same KoL day, but as my general usage is logging in each of my characters once per day, I can't be sure the problem is rollover related, but testing by logging in and back out repeatedly today has not cleared the counter). Also, it doesn't seem to happen every day. I haven't been keeping careful track, but some days, the counters will be there like they should, and some days, they'll be missing. I follow a pretty strict routine for pre-logout activities, so I'm not sure what the difference is.
I have multiple accounts, but only ONE of them is losing its counters (telmaH #2365411). What's different about that account (and furthermore, has been different for the entire time the problem has been happening)? Well, it's the account I use for testing out new things, so the following is what I've come up with:
- It's my only account that has a capital in a position other than the first letter; also my only account where I changed the "Name Capitalization" setting in KoL's Settings > Profile after I created the account.
- It's my only account that has a recovery script set (Bale's Universal_recovery).
- It's my only account that has ever used bumcheekascend (v 0.52), but hasn't used it since December.
- It's my only account that has ever used CounterChecker (it was used in conjunction with bumcheekascend). CounterChecker has been disabled for a while now, however.
- It's my only account that has ever done a Bad Moon run (100% Black Cat).
- Until just now, it was set for an African timezone in account preferences within KoL (no idea how that happened; it's fixed now, if somehow the vanishing counters stop since I fixed that, I'll report).
- Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, KoLmafia absolutely will not remember this character's demon name for Existential Torment. And it's only this character. Despite the fact that he's defeated his Nemesis in at least 3 different runs (using mafia for all of them), Existential Torment remains grayed out in the Daily Deeds Summoning Chamber dropdown, and doesn't show up in my bumcheekcity snapshot. (I keep forgetting to note the name manually, as I usually think of it when I'm about 2 screens past where the nemesis reveals it.) All other discovered demon names automatically stored and work perfectly.
That's all I can think of, or find by looking through the settings by eye. If necessary, I'll go to another account, make notes on all the KoL and mafia settings, and compare them exhaustively.
Finally, here's the relevant bits (plus a bit of context) of session logs for the most recent occurence.
telmah_20130204.txt :
on 20130205:
On login, no counters existed.
Ate fortune cookie (turn 1292), and it gave Lucky numbers: 242, 150, 35 (35 was correct, and corresponded to what should have been the counter leftover from yesterday).
KoLmafia version: r11844 currently, but the problem has happened (for me) as far back as December, at least. It's possible it's been doing it farther back than that. Perhaps even since the account was created (September), and it just took me a while to notice.
OS and related: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I download the latest .jar from builds.kolmafia.us every few days
Like Theraze, I am losing fortune cookie/semirare counters on rollover (this does not appear to happen between multiple logins on the same KoL day, but as my general usage is logging in each of my characters once per day, I can't be sure the problem is rollover related, but testing by logging in and back out repeatedly today has not cleared the counter). Also, it doesn't seem to happen every day. I haven't been keeping careful track, but some days, the counters will be there like they should, and some days, they'll be missing. I follow a pretty strict routine for pre-logout activities, so I'm not sure what the difference is.
I have multiple accounts, but only ONE of them is losing its counters (telmaH #2365411). What's different about that account (and furthermore, has been different for the entire time the problem has been happening)? Well, it's the account I use for testing out new things, so the following is what I've come up with:
- It's my only account that has a capital in a position other than the first letter; also my only account where I changed the "Name Capitalization" setting in KoL's Settings > Profile after I created the account.
- It's my only account that has a recovery script set (Bale's Universal_recovery).
- It's my only account that has ever used bumcheekascend (v 0.52), but hasn't used it since December.
- It's my only account that has ever used CounterChecker (it was used in conjunction with bumcheekascend). CounterChecker has been disabled for a while now, however.
- It's my only account that has ever done a Bad Moon run (100% Black Cat).
- Until just now, it was set for an African timezone in account preferences within KoL (no idea how that happened; it's fixed now, if somehow the vanishing counters stop since I fixed that, I'll report).
- Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, KoLmafia absolutely will not remember this character's demon name for Existential Torment. And it's only this character. Despite the fact that he's defeated his Nemesis in at least 3 different runs (using mafia for all of them), Existential Torment remains grayed out in the Daily Deeds Summoning Chamber dropdown, and doesn't show up in my bumcheekcity snapshot. (I keep forgetting to note the name manually, as I usually think of it when I'm about 2 screens past where the nemesis reveals it.) All other discovered demon names automatically stored and work perfectly.
That's all I can think of, or find by looking through the settings by eye. If necessary, I'll go to another account, make notes on all the KoL and mafia settings, and compare them exhaustively.
Finally, here's the relevant bits (plus a bit of context) of session logs for the most recent occurence.
telmah_20130204.txt :
Code:
[1156] Cobb's Knob Laboratory
Encounter: Mr. Alarm, I Presarm
Took choice 517/1: unknown
choice.php?pwd&whichchoice=517&option=1
[1157] Cobb's Knob Harem
Encounter: Hands On
You acquire scented massage oil (3)
buy 1 fortune cookie for 40 each from The General Store
You acquire an item: fortune cookie
You spent 40 Meat
eat 1 fortune cookie
You gain 1 Adventure
You gain 1 Fullness
Lucky numbers: 208, 6, 170
use 1 astral energy drink
You gain 29 Adventures
[1159] Cook 3 wad of dough + 3 tomato
You acquire plain pizza (3)
Crafting used 3 each of wad of dough and tomatoon 20130205:
On login, no counters existed.
Ate fortune cookie (turn 1292), and it gave Lucky numbers: 242, 150, 35 (35 was correct, and corresponded to what should have been the counter leftover from yesterday).
xKiv
Active member
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completely unfounded hypothesis: are you logging in with different capitalization than your "actual", in-game, capitalization?
(I am xKiv with second letter capitalized, but I type it like that when I log in, and I am not losing any counters, and ET demon name was remembered properly for me)
completely unfounded hypothesis: are you logging in with different capitalization than your "actual", in-game, capitalization?
(I am xKiv with second letter capitalized, but I type it like that when I log in, and I am not losing any counters, and ET demon name was remembered properly for me)
Update: Logged in and out (and totally closed mafia) several times yesterday, and counter remained through all of that. Upon logging in for the first time after rollover today, my semi-rare counter is missing. I have the relevant bits of GCLI output saved, if anyone wants to see them, but since they mirror what Theraze already posted, I figure they were mostly just taking up space.
You may be on to something. I login from the mafia GUI, using the drop down box, which contains "telmah" (H not capitalized), because I started playing the account in mafia before I changed the capitalization in KoL settings. I can't seem to find a way to change it to "telmaH" in the mafia login GUI, as any time I type that, it matches it from the login history and automatically replaces it with "telmah".
For the time being, I'm going to try changing the capitalization in the KoL account settings back to the original ("telmah"), so it matches the way I log in via Mafia. I'll report if this seems to fix things (likely to take a couple of days; as stated above, for whatever reason, counters are only lost at rollover, not within the day). If someone can suggest how to get mafia to change "telmah" to "telmaH", I'll change the capitalization back inside of KoL, and try using the correct capitalization in mafia, and report if that works, too.
You may be on to something. I login from the mafia GUI, using the drop down box, which contains "telmah" (H not capitalized), because I started playing the account in mafia before I changed the capitalization in KoL settings. I can't seem to find a way to change it to "telmaH" in the mafia login GUI, as any time I type that, it matches it from the login history and automatically replaces it with "telmah".
For the time being, I'm going to try changing the capitalization in the KoL account settings back to the original ("telmah"), so it matches the way I log in via Mafia. I'll report if this seems to fix things (likely to take a couple of days; as stated above, for whatever reason, counters are only lost at rollover, not within the day). If someone can suggest how to get mafia to change "telmah" to "telmaH", I'll change the capitalization back inside of KoL, and try using the correct capitalization in mafia, and report if that works, too.
Winterbay
Active member
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Theraze
Active member
Use the login command... that will change your saved settings. So login telmaH and the next time you check the GUI, it should be capitalized with that way.
For the record, I'm running on Windows 8 64-bit. So not sharing an OS with Xande1 currently. I am using Dropbox to sync the entire KoLmafia folder, but that SHOULDN'T cause these problems... right?
Could this thread http://kolmafia.us/showthread.php?11606-Lost-fortune-cookie-counters-overnight be relevant to this problem? Sounds very much like what was happening to me back back in December.
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