Forum:PuTTY terminal gone berserk

I'm playing SLASH'EM on the server slashem.de. I was satiated, and a glowing eye used the stunning attack on me, causing 'satiated blind stunned' to appear on the status bar. This is longer than what would fit; however the server didn't handle this gracefully. The result was quite odd; the bottom line of the status kept slowly redrawing. It would display as much of the line as it could, then it appeared to start backspacing through the line until it hit the end, then would re-appear and start deleting again. At no point during this time was I able to enter any commands, e.g. to apply my unihorn and end the overflow problem. Furthermore, as I typed this up, the PuTTY terminal closed itself, probably since the server wasn't really responding to input.

Attempting to rejoin the server unfortunately gives me the message "There is already a game in progress under your name. Destroy old game? [yn]". I'm relunctant to hit y because I assume that this will delete my save file as well. This happened to me once before, and I know that after a week or so the save file will get deleted anyways. This is the only server I've ever had this happen on; I've been disconnected from other servers (accidentally terminating the session, internet loss, etc) and I am instead asked if I wish to recover the game in progress. Overflowing the status bar on other servers also simply stops displaying part of it, rather than causing the whole thing to hang up. Are these server problems just related to some (mis)configuration on the server or a part of their modified codebase? And is there a way to definitely recover the save file?

Qazmlpok 01:03, September 23, 2010 (UTC)