All Admin functions ceased working after today's update (8-21)

WebNoob · **Author**

Hiya folks,

So - I'm having the strangest issue. After today's TF2 update, all my admin functions have ceased working on all TF2 servers. As far as I can tell, all other Sourcemod plugins are working correctly, and I don't see any other problems with the servers (and no errors in the logs).

Usually, this would indicate some kind of database issue, but accoring to the logs, there are no connection problems.

I'm running Sourcebans 1.4.10 on windows 2008r2 servers.

Any ideas where the problem could be?

Creampuffyness

Me too. Admin.cfg looks fine. No database issue. Plugins loaded. No errors. No admin :-(

MasterOfTheXP

Type "status" in console. Looks like Valve's suddenly changed how Steam IDs are written.

ddhoward · *Last edited by ddhoward; 08-21-2014 at 18:27.*

The issue seems to be changes with Auth strings. Typing 'status' into the console shows my line as this:

Code:

#     27 "Derek"             [U:1:96574113]      03:44      140    0 active

Rather than as something like this:

Code:

#     27 "Derek"             STEAM_0:1:48287056      03:44      140    0 active

This change was not included in the patch notes, at that. This will likely require you to re-enter these new Steam IDs into your database. :\

Gam3r HD

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddhoward

The issue seems to be changes with Auth strings. Typing 'status' into the console shows my line as this:

Code:

#     27 "Derek"             [U:1:96574113]      03:44      140    0 active

Rather than as something like this:

Code:

#     27 "Derek"             STEAM_0:1:48287056      03:44      140    0 active

This change was not included in the patch notes, at that. This will likely require you to re-enter these new Steam IDs into your database. :\

Yeah. My server has been pretty much crippled as of the update. So are we just replacing the original STEAM IDs with the new ones?

On a side note, hey Derek!

lionheart1066

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gam3r HD

Yeah. My server has been pretty much crippled as of the update. So are we just replacing the original STEAM IDs with the new ones?

On a side note, hey Derek!

Replacing the original steam IDs with the new one doesn't work, I just checked, sourcemod needs to be updated to take the new ones. I hope to god this is a mistake, because this is dumb, there's no way of externally finding the IDs and not forgetting all the IDs that need converting...

Geit

Quote:

Originally Posted by lionheart1066

Replacing the original steam IDs with the new one doesn't work, I just checked, sourcemod needs to be updated to take the new ones. I hope to god this is a mistake, because this is dumb, there's no way of externally finding the IDs and not forgetting all the IDs that need converting...

The conversion between the two is fairly simple. For "STEAM_0:1:" ID's it's simply double the end part of the ID and add one, (STEAM_0:1:48287056 => 48287056 * 2 +1 = 96574113 => U:1:96574113).

For STEAM_0:0 the same, but don't add one.

lionheart1066 · *Last edited by lionheart1066; 08-21-2014 at 18:44.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geit

The conversion between the two is fairly simple. For "STEAM_0:1:" ID's it's simply double the end part of the ID and add one, (STEAM_0:1:48287056 => 48287056 * 2 +1 = 96574113 => U:1:96574113).

For STEAM_0:0 the same, but don't add one.

Well then I hope the next update to the sourcemod snapshot provides an automatic conversion, because I'm terrible at maths and I use steamrep to fetch all my IDs. Not forgetting I have over 300 steam ids to go through.

WebNoob

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geit

The conversion between the two is fairly simple. For "STEAM_0:1:" ID's it's simply double the end part of the ID and add one, (STEAM_0:1:48287056 => 48287056 * 2 +1 = 96574113 => U:1:96574113).

For STEAM_0:0 the same, but don't add one.

I assume that means for something like Sourcebans a database converter could be created? Or will Sourcemod itself be able to be patched to translate the old to the new automatically?

Gam3r HD

Quote:

Originally Posted by lionheart1066

Replacing the original steam IDs with the new one doesn't work, I just checked, sourcemod needs to be updated to take the new ones. I hope to god this is a mistake, because this is dumb, there's no way of externally finding the IDs and not forgetting all the IDs that need converting...

This is a major issue on Valve's part. One second the server is fine, the next everthing breaks.