Search feature.... is a pain in the butt, it remembers settings from the last time you searched, and that can trip you up if you aren't careful.
1) Do I need to, or should I, now attach any tags on this?Tags aren't necessary but are helpful. If you want to do it yourself that's fine but sometimes others will help too. The most common tags are usually just descriptors for the type of bug - eg biome, grass, etc.
1b) If yes, what are common situations that are normally tagged on this point?
Someone noticed my report, surely It's now getting fixed. Oh, they are just asking an update, I'l fill that out. Wait, what? They tagged my report with "AWAITING UPDATE", what is that?
2) After giving a response, Do I need to do anything with tags? Like attach "UPDATE GIVEN"?
3) Any other useful hint and tips for new reporters how to use Mantis efficiently?
Should I attach files to a bug? Can I? I collected a memory dump of a crash during world generation for 34.01
Without it, my bug report might be useless.
Memory dumps might not be as useful as the save. You can't upload files directly to the tracker, but if you upload your save to some place like the Dwarf Fortress File Depot and include a link in your bug report, that would work fine.
I'm having much trouble working with mantis. It's just so chaotic. I would really like to be able to post bugs on the forum again, I do try Mantis, but it gives me headaches because of the unfriendly user interface.
Well.. With the bug report forum, I can quickly glance at the topic titles, and get a good grasp of what has been recently reported. But Mantis' text font and layout hurt my eyes too much to be able to spot the news at a quick glance. I also just can't seem to use Mantis' search function effectively.
What is the best way to reopen an issue? The initial post does not provide any direction, and a forum search was not helpful either.
Specifically, I encountered Bug 5261. I am preparing a save now with in-game notes, but I would much prefer to attach my save files and notes to the original bug entry.
If anyone else can provide a save, please message a Manager on the forums.
The report was open for 18 months without corroborating comments or a save, so I didn't know it was a known problem.vs.
- There is no need to 'bump' a report - Mantis isn't a forum.
If wasted time is the concern, the most efficient thing is for the reporter to include a save in the first place.
- There is no need to 'bump' a report - Mantis isn't a forum.
So are we supposed to "me too" bug reports (for corroboration), or not?
As long as saves are optional, closing out bug reports because they don't include a save is counterproductive.
We are moving over to the bug tracker (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt) now, so please post any new reports there.
Is there any way to edit your bug reports?If you mean the summary/additional information, only managers can do that. What report are you trying to edit?
I want to change the save in This report (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=6635) to this: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8768Done.
First: Sorry for my bad english.
Not sure if it's a bug or not:
Everytime when I start to start a new DF-Adventure Game, it freezes when the game trys to update the world.
Any advice?
First: Sorry for my bad english.
Not sure if it's a bug or not:
Everytime when I start to start a new DF-Adventure Game, it freezes when the game trys to update the world.
Any advice?
It is a bug, and hopefully will be fixed within a few weeks. Watch this report (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=6532) for updates.
First: Sorry for my bad english.
Not sure if it's a bug or not:
Everytime when I start to start a new DF-Adventure Game, it freezes when the game trys to update the world.
Any advice?
If anyone's interested in helping out, there are ~50 reports (http://tinyurl.com/oftra8y) that may or may not have been fixed by the 0.40.01 release. It would be great to get confirmation (via a comment on the report) about whether or not they were fixed. Thanks in advance!
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2892 is a duplicate of another one that got closed yesterday, because it was fixed on 0.40.01.
Now, Knight Otu closed this report of mine: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=7037 as a duplicate of http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=6891 ...it is ok, they are similar enough, but pulped isn't mangled. Mangled is the old red wound, and even body parts with yellow wounds should cease to function. I think this distinction is important.
I left a comment there.
I believe I've encountered the same bug twice, where attempting to leave a Necromancer site via fast travel has resulted in a crash. I'm not sure if I was far enough away or not for it to count being on the site, but I think it has something to do with their tower.
Is there any reason why duplicate/not-bug issues are being marked as "resolved", rather than just "closed", on Mantis? Looking back this used (2012) to happen. It's currently quite difficult to work out what's been fixed given the huge number of issues that are marked as resolved - whilst usually looking for "Toady One" works for finding real fixes, sometimes someone else marks an actually resolved bug as resolved (presumably when he forgets or something)!
(Of course, you might argue it's easier to just view Toady's daily updates...)
Someone raised the same issue on the tracker. (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=290) This is what I told them:QuoteI'm setting them as "resolved" so that Toady can review them before closing them. As far as I can tell, that's the expected workflow for Mantis, so I'm trying it out. Also, when you resolve tickets, it gives you to the opportunity to also set a duplicate relationship, which is more convenient than doing it as two separate steps.
In addition to the fact that Mantis makes it easier to do things this way, here's a workflow diagram for general bug tracking:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If you want to see the fixes only, the changelog is the best way.
Should I be reporting bugs in 34.11? I know that 40.0x is the current version, but there are a few random crashes (mostly segfaults from the terminal) that I have been getting.
Just wanted to say that I ran into
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=7284
in 40.08
Didn't see it in the 40.09 changelog, but it still exists.
I had a Carpenter go into a fey mood while everyone was sealed inside because of a Gobbo siege. Well, right after the siege. Everything was fine for a few seconds, then FPS tanked. It went down to 2 or 3 FPS for a while. I frantically cut through the wall, and FPS rose back up to 58 or so.
I realize you're aware of this, just giving a poke or so. The last few bug squashing updates have been great! Keep up the great work!
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/issues_rss.php?filter_id=8594That's the correct link, thanks.
Two questions about the tracker:Confirmed issues usually have a higher priority than acknowledged issues.
1) What's the difference between "acknowledged" and "confirmed"?
2) What does it mean when a bug is assigned to someone besides Toady?When a manager changes the status of a report, it is (usually) automatically assigned to that manager. It's possible to unassign it manually, but self-assigning issues helps us track the status of issues we've requested feedback on (e.g. with the "Assigned to Me (Unresolved)" list under "My View").
1: The "new topic" button in this board is non-excisting for me as a new user, using opera web browser - forcing me to post my bug here, plese forgive :)Please post the report to http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/ and upload the file to http://dffd.bay12games.com/. This board is no long used. If you have problems registering, just email Toady.
2: My 1 year old fortress crashes. This crash happends every time 3-4 sec after the last autosave. Used lazy noob pack, and disabling utilities, mods, dfhack etc and changeing graphics does NOT work. I can stay in paused mode forever tho.
I might have to abandon my fortress, but don't want to risk to run into the same problem again with a new one.
I would upload my savefile but I don't know where to find it. In the folder LNP/DF40/data/save there's just one empty folder and one with tons of DATs and txts and graphic images.
While i have decent understanding of PCs, I am a complete noobie to DF so if you wish to help please keep it simple :) Thanks!
Making a second post so it's seen:Personally, I would prefer that you didn't do that. It looks like you're mostly adding keywords that aren't in the original report (at least the ones I've checked), which is kind of helpful for search purposes (unlike duplicating words that are already in the report), but it mostly tends to clutter up the "recently modified" section.
Is it acceptable to go around adding tags to old reports? Am I helping by categorizing possibly-related issues, or am I cluttering up the page with unnecessary bumps?
1) It seems to me there are lots of tags that have typos in them ("caberns") or are doubled ("Cage" vs. "cages"). I think it could help if such typos are fixed and doubles merged. Is there anything to check for when deleting a tag? Was there ever any agreement if tags should be rather in singular or plural form or other such standardization efforts? I think if there is less clutter in the list of tags reporters will be more inclined to use the list of existing tags before writing their own ones, possibly creating more redundancy.
2) Do you know about View issues->List of filters (under Reset filter)->Potential unhandled duplicates :D ? It took me quite some time to stumble upon it.
3) Is there some other place used for discussion on how to manage DF Mantis?
I can't find anything on Mantis! Am I using the wrong keywords? I'm trying to see if the bug I'm experiencing is just me or has someone else reported it, but I don't seem to be able to browse the problems, or narrow them down. In the newest version (44.02) the game doesn't see some items in the stockpiles - for example I had a whole bin full of paper sheets but the craftsdrwarf shop had the 'make quire' job red as if there were no sheets available. Similar with hives - had 10 in bins, but couldn't build any. Searching for 'stockpiles' on Mantis doesn't bring up anything though.
Am I doing something wrong?
Hi, sorry, but where/how do we post a bug report? Sorry I'm very new to both DF and this forum hahaBug tracker is here:
They've got a couple of bug channels on the KitfoxGames discord (https://discord.gg/kitfoxgames), that seems to be to current place.No idea if anyone who can actually fix the bugs reads it, though...
Is Mantis still the place to report bugs, or is there a new platform/method in use for the Steam release? I have a crash that was listed as "fixed" by Toady in 2019 but it seems to have crept back in with the new version (i.e., crashing with errorlog.txt just spamming "Midmap effective coordinate check out of bounds")If the only similarity is what is logged in errorlog.txt, then the crash likely has a different cause. errorlog.txt is only really helpful for identifying certain modding-related errors, as opposed to crashes.
No idea if anyone who can actually fix the bugs reads it, though...They do (see 50.02, for instance), but some things take time to fix.
On the steam version, when embarking in an untamed wilds biome, zombie and howling wind ambience plays. This is unrelated to the evil biome as I tested it multiple times on untamed wild biomes on different maps. Some other people have also complained about it.
Afaik, the people who sysadmin the bug tracker are also the people who sysadmin the wiki and also dfhack-afflitiated, so I imagine they're all quite busy :)Haha, yeah, there is a fair amount of crossover.
The number of accounts we have available is limited, so the current email method linked below is what we have.
https://kitfoxgames.notion.site/How-to-Report-Bugs-in-Dwarf-Fortress-b5e2ca19dabe408897d1c2669599b7a2
Neither:Ah, email it is then. Thanks for the quick response ;)Quote from: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8442542#msg8442542The number of accounts we have available is limited, so the current email method linked below is what we have.
https://kitfoxgames.notion.site/How-to-Report-Bugs-in-Dwarf-Fortress-b5e2ca19dabe408897d1c2669599b7a2
Although apparently a bug means that if you were previously registered on the old Mantis, the bug report email that you spent hours working on will be met by the prompt reply "Access Denied!".Neither:Ah, email it is then. Thanks for the quick response ;)Quote from: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8442542#msg8442542The number of accounts we have available is limited, so the current email method linked below is what we have.
https://kitfoxgames.notion.site/How-to-Report-Bugs-in-Dwarf-Fortress-b5e2ca19dabe408897d1c2669599b7a2
We (managers) can still see the emails you send in. I'll try to create a ticket from yours, although the drawback is that you won't get notified for updates.So I can keep sending bug reports and ignore the auto-reply?
The bug tracker states you should search before sending a report in (normal) but there is no search option on it (less normal)There is, it's just frustratingly obtuse.
Do bug reports emailed via the new instructions receive an acknowledge reply?To be clear, the View Issues (https://dwarffortress.mantishub.io/view_all_bug_page.php) page is the search page.
It is and has been accepting emails. You should have gotten an automated reply - check your spam folder if not. There is a manual triage step before they move to the "Dwarf Fortress" project, though.I did get an automated reply it said "access denied". I posted here and you replied on January 5th that you would try to create a ticket and that I wouldn't receive automated updates. So what would be in my spam folder?
Sorry, it sounded to me like you were talking about something new. That report does still exist in the helpdesk inbox.Great.
Is the new bug tracker up to date? It seems like no issues were solved since december 2022. I assume that there are a lot of duplicate entries since many more players than before are reporting. But not even duplicates are solved. That seems weird to me...Seems to be working. I think the entire point of making it email only was so they didn't have mountains of duplicate reports on the tracker to close.
Also, I submitted a report that never showed up on the tracker although reports with ID's higher than mine are on it. Are all reported issues still included, even if they can directly be closed (for being a duplicate for example)?
You don't, see https://kitfoxgames.notion.site/How-to-Report-Bugs-in-Dwarf-Fortress-b5e2ca19dabe408897d1c2669599b7a2That site won't even open for me:
Yeah, that still loads for me. Hmm, it used to be linked to on https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ but now there's no link for bug reporting. May be there's changes coming?I still see a Bug Tracker link on the front page. Links to the Kitfox info about the new tracker now though.
For the last few days, I've been getting this website error when trying to view bug tracker reports (angle brackets denote redactions):
APPLICATION ERROR #401
Database query failed. Error received from database was #1: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/<8-character identifier>' (Errcode: 28 "No space left on device") for the query: <verbatim SQL query code>.
Please use the "Back" button in your web browser to return to the previous page. There you can correct whatever problems were identified in this error or select another action. You can also click an option from the menu bar to go directly to a new section.