"ERR NCSimple_Serializer (ch=0)" & "EXC Memory stream is not expendable"

Thunderbolt-GER

Thunderbolt-GER

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Hello,

After the current gameupdate 20.4 (b42) i have an issue on the multiplayer server i am playing (and co-admining) on.

At first, everything worked with the new version. After playing a few hours, the console popped up with thes flollowing errors, which causes that boxes can't be opened anymore (nothing happens when pressing 'e') and the sound of jumping and walking is also gone. The nature sound is still there.

ERR NCSimple_Serializer (ch=0)
EXC Memory stream is not expendable

I quit the game, restarted it and after i am loggin in the game and doing nothing, a few seconds (5-10) later the same 2 errors pop up in the console.

I deleted the mapdata of this server with the launcher, rebooted my machine and connected again.

The map downloaded completely, but after a few seconds the 2 errors popped up again.

Now i am out of ideas what to do and can't play anymore. Any pointers to what is going on there?

In the server log are no entries connected to this problem, it seems to be locally only.

Outputlog -> https://pastebin.com/BsWfACg8

I just validated my gamefiles via Steam, reconnected and did nothing (just staring at the screen) after i was logged in and after 17 seconds the 2 errors appeared again.

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Thank you for reporting.

This is an issue that occurs when you have a drone deployed on a dedicated server in A20.4.  

There is already a ticket for it.  Hopefully there will be a fix soon.

 
Oh, i was just writing a "real" bugreport... I guess i don't have to do it then ? :)

So is there any way i can still play?

I guess deleting "drones.dat" would fix it, but everyone on the server would lose his/her drone ?

Anything i can do?

 
One of the guys on my server started having this error this morning after the server restarted, He played all night after the update with his drone deployed and didn't have a problem. He's gonna try and run without the drone to see if that's the issue.

 
Have a friend that's currently experiencing this issue. We backed up our server, restarted it and the problem begin. We did the whole not touching the drone thing and it worked for a while, but he picked it up to move it and now the game no longer lets him in. He just stays stuck on creating a player. Hopefully, this is fixed soon.

 
Thunderbolt-GER said:
Oh, i was just writing a "real" bugreport... I guess i don't have to do it then ? :)

So is there any way i can still play?

I guess deleting "drones.dat" would fix it, but everyone on the server would lose his/her drone ?

Anything i can do?
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I tested deleting the drones.dat file and it didn't solve the issue for more than one of my players

 
chikorina said:
Thank you for reporting.

This is an issue that occurs when you have a drone deployed on a dedicated server in A20.4.  

There is already a ticket for it.  Hopefully there will be a fix soon.
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Look out for individual user profile  files too. Those who experience that error appear to have huge profiles (>1Mb compared to 8-30kb normal)

It seems it's either use of ANY transport entities (robots and drones included) causes this over time, gradually. It accumulates with time spent online, but drones appear is what triggers.

No signs of problem in logs until it happens. Then player is unable even complete player entity realization in-world or downloading of rules, server silently closes connection to client but shows player online.

 
Here to pile on to this issue.  Had to shut down my stream last night because of this issue.   Half of the folks on my community server are having this issue and a handful can't even log in after updated to 20.4.  We are going to roll back to 20.3 as 20.4 is too unstable for consumption.

 
I had this issue and found a work around if you're not able to log in. The first time I had the error pop up I was able to log in a couple times but kept getting the error and had to relog. Eventually I was no longer able to log in.

I solved this by copying my player profile to a single player world, start the single player game, exit the single player game, copying the player profile back to the dedicated server. There seems to be a limit of 2 mb on player profiles for dedicated servers, and it can't get bigger than that. This limit doesn't seem to exist for single player worlds. Something with the drone is loading up the player profile with info that it shouldn't be. Once you load into a single player world, it cleans the erroring data and brings your player profile down to the size it should be and then you can load it on the server.

For now it seems we just need to put the drones in a box until TFP can fix the issue.

 
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Backslash2099 said:
I had this issue and found a work around if you're not able to log in. The first time I had the error pop up I was able to log in a couple times but kept getting the error and had to relog. Eventually I was no longer able to log in.

I solved this by copying my player profile to a single player world, start the single player game, exit the single player game, copying the player profile back to the dedicated server. There seems to be a limit of 2 mb on player profiles for dedicated servers, and it can't get bigger than that. This limit doesn't seem to exist for single player worlds. Something with the drone is loading up the player profile with info that it shouldn't be. Once you load into a single player world, it cleans the erroring data and brings your player profile down to the size it should be and then you can load it on the server.

For now it seems we just need to put the drones in a box until TFP can fix the issue.
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Can you PLEASE details what you exaclty copied and where, thank.

 
Hi All. I made an account just for this issue. I found this forum because I and a few of the people on the server I'm on are having this  issue. I Had a drone deployed, and saw the issue mentioned about a drone, so I put it away and took it out of my inventory, relogged and everything was fine. told the others and same for them.. a week passes and now I'm getting the same issue just doing anything. Loot a crate, error pops up. Go to my workbench, nope sorry, now you can't interact with anything. 

Other than the drone issue, is there a fix found for this, or something else that could be causing the error? The server I'm on if pretty well modded, and it started happening first this time, when I was in an added POI, but thats probably just coincidence as it happens anytime now. 

 
I have the same issue even I remove the drone and it still come back and it even got worst I am unable to get in my friends server after getting the error i am stuck in creating player more then a hour or more

 
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