Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#5025 closed defect (fixed)
LB2CD: Disappearing Journal Entries
| Reported by: | SF/philohippus | Owned by: | bluegr |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: SCI |
| Version: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Game: | Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon-Ra |
Description
Came across a situation where 2 journal entries went missing. Unfortunately I was unable to reproduce the problem replaying from a previous save with intact journal entries. Console entries read:
WARNING: cmdDummy invoked! WARNING: AvoidPath: start position at unreachable location! WARNING: Read for a parameter goes out-of-bounds, onto the stack and gets uninitialized temp! WARNING: cmdDummy invoked!
Attached savegame exhibits the corrupt journal where the following entries are missing PLACES > The Tribune -- NYDRNT PLACES > Police Station
With these entries missing it becomes impossible to travel to these places as you cannot point them out from the journal to the taxi driver.
I hope the savegame internals can somehow help discern how it happened.
Ticket imported from: #3036263. Ticket imported from: bugs/5025.
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Change History (11)
by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | laurabow2.001 added |
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comment:1 by , 14 years ago
ok I managed to make a savegame where you can reproduce this bug and make a notebook entry disappear. It is attached below. To reproduce the problem:
- Consult your notebook (go to inventory, change to hand icon, click on notebook) - Note that in the PLACES tab there is an entry for "The Tribune -- NYDRNT" - Leave notebook - Ask desk policeman about Ziggy - Again consult your notebook. "The Tribune" entry is missing.
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
| Priority: | normal → high |
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comment:3 by , 14 years ago
Also just noted that the bug is cumulative: asking the vanishing question over and over again will consume all your notebook's PLACES entries until only the last one remains.
Also should note that when I first noticed missing entries in the notebook, and filed this bug, I hadn't yet gotten to the point in the game where I could ask the desk policeman about Ziggy, so it is to be expected that there are other combinations of questions/characters that lead to vanishing entries in the notebook's Places tab.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Priority: | high → normal |
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comment:7 by , 14 years ago
Possibly related bug: #3036274. dropCluesCode:doit is called from script 21 when asking the policeman about Ziggy, and we work around that by returning a 0 for an uninitialized temp (perhaps 0 removes the first entry in the journal?)
comment:8 by , 14 years ago
Yep it seems that you're exactly right, I confirm that both situations that caused crashes in bugs 3036274 & 3035068 now cause missing journal entries. This 3036263 bug entry can probably be closed and 3036274 & 3035068 reopened.
comment:10 by , 14 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
savegame to reproduce problem