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  • #11

  Zeglar Apr 30, 2012 at 01:29 UTC - 0 likes

  Yes... just checked with the latest version of PV, and with hashes enabled, it fails.

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  • #10

  oscarucb Apr 19, 2012 at 21:14 UTC - 0 likes

  Does this problem remain in the 4.3.4 mac 64 client?

  Author/Maintainer of BigBrother, ProfessionsVault, InspectFix, RetardCheck, RoleIcons, SavedInstances, and others..

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  • #9

  oscarucb Feb 07, 2012 at 06:10 UTC - 0 likes

  Yes, the hashing is a performance optimization for memory utilization and totally unnecessary, although it's been awhile since i tested without it. If we can't find a decent fix for this I may just disable it by default for mac 64.

  I think /print is an Ace command, you can also just do:

  /script print(ProfessionsVault:hash("whatever"))

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  • #8

  Zeglar Feb 07, 2012 at 00:00 UTC - 0 likes

  Interestingly enough, the disabling of the hash (line 89) seems to work fine. I'm assuming that the hashing is a performance thing?

  I can't get /print to work correctly - is there a development addon I need to get that to work right?

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  • #7

  oscarucb Feb 06, 2012 at 21:44 UTC - 0 likes

  Your new screenshot showing the hash collision errors reveals the source of the problem to be the hash computation. I've checked and my win64 client does NOT appear to be demonstrating the problem, so it may be specific to Mac64 (which unfortunately means I cannot debug it directly)

  Please try disabling hashing by changing the line 89 to false and see what happens local usehashes = true this may serve as an immediate workaround for people encountering the problem.

  If you want to investigate further, try plugging some random strings into:

  /print ProfessionsVault:hash("whatever")

  it should always return a positive number less than 4.2 billion or something is wrong. My guess is the lua bit manipulation is malfunctioning on mac 64, although without being able to try it myself it's hard to say exactly which call is malfunctioning.

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  • #6

  oscarucb Feb 05, 2012 at 04:54 UTC - 0 likes

  Ah very good to know. I totally believe this could be related to the client ABI, since PV performs somewhat sophisticated bit manipulation for the link decoding which other addons might not stress. My first guess is this probably reflects a bug in the 64-bit lua client, but possibly one that I can circumvent. I don't have access to a 64-bit Mac but I'll try to reproduce it on my 64-bit windows machine and report back.

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  • #5

  Zeglar Feb 05, 2012 at 03:53 UTC - 0 likes

  Fascinating! Did not think of it initially, but after wiping out all my other addons besides this one, then deleting my entire WTF directory as well, then downloading a fresh version of PV (just in case!), I was still having the same problem. I also started getting some errors on startup (screenshot attached). Then I realized - I'm running the new 64-bit Mac client! Switch back to the 32-bit Mac client, happy as a clam - no more errors on startup, the recipes were working correctly!

  Had no idea that the 64-bit client may cause issues with addons like this at all, so this is both (a) interesting to know, and (b) rather upsetting, since it means trusting addons using the newer 64-bit client is going to be dicey. (Shame, since the new client vastly improved my performance!)

  Not sure how easy it would be for you to work this particular problem out oscarucb, so I understand if you decline fixing this, since the 64-bit client is technically still considered "beta", since it isn't being distributed as part of a normal download. If I happen to figure out where in the code things break, I'll let you know.

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  Zeglar Feb 05, 2012 at 03:24 UTC - 0 likes

  Yes, this character and the "learnable" character are one and the same. That's why this whole thing has me confused! :)

  I'll do what you asked, will report back in a little while. I'll also add in deleting the current saved variable information (again), just so I'm working as "fresh" as possible. Sorry to be putting you through this, thought it might have been patch related but it clearly isn't based on your experiments.

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  • #3

  oscarucb Feb 04, 2012 at 23:00 UTC - 0 likes

  I don't understand what could be causing this - I've tried the same exact patterns you mentioned on my characters and they all display correctly. Please try the following:

  • Login with ALL other addons disabled, using only ProfessionsVault and see if the problem persists
  • Try reinstalling a fresh copy of ProfessionsVault in case PV_Data.lua got corrupted somehow
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  • #2

  oscarucb Feb 04, 2012 at 22:52 UTC - 0 likes

  Is the "learnable" character name identical to the character you are currently logged into for this screenshot?