Here I go.
After 4, maybe 5 nightly hours of cultivating a headache over how to get inside the damn Ferrous LAN, I had almost given up on trying to get into the CM. I had explored all other options, denied the Lifters and GWS, checked out the ISM, everything. At one point I found myself hacking the ARC Name Server to get more links to Uplink Labs servers, hoping maybe there would be some software stashed away that would shed new light on things.
I started to feel like an idiot for spending so much time on the damn CM instead of looking for a VPN service for the LAN when I finally got the ACS to allow my decypher and proxy disabler!
Yay! (Still no clue on how -exactly- the ACS decides what software to allow, but if I ever need to get past another ACS I'll let future me handle that)
So all of a sudden I'm in the CM, and yeah, there's my VPN key generator! I enter the AS ip and the major key I got from a probe. Failed to find any trace of a minor key, so checked out the forums and found the bug where 10.0 is displayed as just 10, so put 0 as my minor key. I disconnect, bounce through the AS to the LAN, realize in my excitement I forgot to download the key file for my LAN agent, so I go back to the mainframe and - poof - Onlink gone.
After restarting it, it fails to load my profile.
I am broken. I just spent hours of my life trying to figure out how to get in to the damn LAN, and just when I think I finally got it, solved the problem, discovered a way in, have the holy grail within reach,
-zip-
ACCESS DENIED. ERROR.
Please understand my pain.
This is what Onlink has to say for itself:
Code:
[0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247] Reading profile from alias.xml.gz...
[0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247] 2.031s
[0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247] Importing profile...
[0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247] Assertion failed : '_first'
[0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247] File: ../../contrib/crisscross/source/crisscross/compare.h
[0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247] Line: 62
...
bunch of stack frames
...
com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[166] ([0x0-0x4c54c5].com.ferrousmoon.onlink[92247]) Exited with exit code: 255
I'm on a MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz C2D, running OSX 10.6, Onlink 0.2.0-a8 r15.
Is there a way to recover/repair the profile?
Is there a way to avoid the crash? Like I said, it happened to me before.
Is there by any chance a newer build for the mac?
I don't know how relevant bug reports like this are with Cerberus development going on, but I figured I could try and see if I can at least get my profile back. Also I couldn't find a better forum to post this in.
As this is my first post, I'd also like to say hello and express my extreme gratitude to everyone working on Onlink. Uplink is such an awesome game, and Onlink makes it so much more interesting, also in terms of what directions it could go in in the future. Really looking forward to an announcement on Cerberus in September!
I'd be glad to contribute if my limited programming skills and a little less limited understandings of interaction design can be of help.