HL2DM server being duplicated

[SuperNova]

For some reason, on server start or on map change, my Half-Life 2: Deathmatch server keeps starting up a SECOND server with a different port of 27016 where the original is on port 27015. It happens randomly but is getting common.

 

The duplicate server is exactly the same in every way except for the port. It's really odd and annoying. It sometimes stops when I end the original server but sometimes just stays up. Or sometimes when I end the original server, it stops the duplicate server and keeps the original up. Really weird.

[Bubka3]

This means port 27015 is already in use.

[SuperNova]

Why would that be happening? The HL2DM server uses port 27015 and is on its own IP.

[Bubka3]

Most likely 1 srcds server is not binded to an IP, and binding on all IPs instead.

[SuperNova]

Well every time I click the Restart button to restart the server, it creates a second one.

[SuperNova]

It seems the problem is that TCAdmin cannot stop the original server process. So when I click the Stop server button, the server stays up.

[Bubka3]

Then find the original process in Task Manager and kill it.

 

Oh, and here is something easier to find processes with:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

 

(thanks to Luis )

Edited June 23, 2012 by Bubka3

[SuperNova]

I do, but it happens so often that I don't want to keep doing it. I run linux btw but I already know how to kill the process.

[LFA]

Try adding -norestart to the game's commandline. Then click on Update Existing Services

[SuperNova]

Have done that.

 

I've found the problem. Once you do the server command 'quit' or click the stop button it displays this:

L 06/26/2012 - 11:46:08: server_message: "quit"

ConVarRef mat_dxlevel doesn't point to an existing ConVar

Game.dll loaded for "Half-Life 2 Deathmatch"

When that happens, it automatically reboots back up and if I search for the process, I see it running by itself and not with a TCAdmin process that would be controlling it.

TCAdmin displays it as Stopped since its process has been cancelled. So when I click start again, it starts it up but since the port is already taken, it uses the next one up.

 

Any ideas?

Edited June 25, 2012 by SuperNova

[LFA]

if you run it manually with the same commandline that tcadmin is using and type quit in the console does it restart?

[SuperNova]

Ran it manually. Quits and doesn't restart. Seems to be TCAdmin doing it then?

 

When I use the 'quit' command It dumps a log file, when I used quit in TCAdmin, it doesn't? Don't know if its hidden or what.

 

This is what it says when I manually started the server and used 'quit':

L 06/27/2012 - 02:27:07: server_message: "quit"

PreMinidumpCallback: updating dump comment

Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']

/tmp/dumps/crash_20120627022707_1.dmp

success = yes

response: CrashID=bp-d56dd228-ec4a-4f7a-8659-343832120626

[LFA]

Try this:

Go to the game's settings.

Select the text console tab.

Set the value of "Stop Console Commands" blank. Save and click on "Update Existing Services".

[SuperNova]

Yup that did the trick. Thank you very much! So that forces the process to terminate?

[LFA]

yes