Pocketmine-mp: Signs go blank after typing

[ghost]

Issue description

Signs sometimes go blank after typing text. This is a extremely old PocketMine bug since MCPE 0.10.5.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Place sign
2. Type
3. It will go blank upon finishing.

Note: I mostly get this if I make a lot of edits with backspacing, re-typing, and changing lines.

OS and versions

• PocketMine-MP: https://github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/commit/f5e39ea9ad54a4bd501b8594524124303e424bae
• PHP: 7
• Server OS: Mac
• Game version: PE

Crashdump, backtrace or other files

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[dktapps]

Have you actually tested this? A similar bug was fixed months ago.

[jasonwynn10]

I think this is due to a slow connection. The longer it takes to set the text, the higher the chance of it going blank. It's been around for a while.

[ghost]

@dktapps I got this yesterday on the latest build.

[dktapps]

I haven't been able to reproduce it since September (which is when one such bug was fixed).

[ghost]

@jasonwynn10 Slow connection should have nothing to do it, raklib makes sure packets are sent reliably. If packet loss occurs raklib will send the packet again, and if your connection is really slow you will timeout.

[robske110]

I have tried to reproduce this, but I really really can't.
It would be nice if you can
1) record a video of mcpe, while the bug occurs.
2) Throw this PacketLogger.php.zip plugin into your /plugins/ folder and send us the file it generated, when you have reproduced this bug.

[jarne]

@jasonwynn10 @madecode15 I also had this problem sometimes when the server was really overloaded

[ghost]

I have seen this a few times but only when I have some plugins installed, I think it could be a plugin causing this rather than vanilla PMMP

[robske110]

Again, if you can reproduce it at an somewhat acceptable rate, please follow the steps i outlined in my last post.

[ghost]

Will close for now, I'll try to get a video recording of it.

[ghost]

I have also now replicated this in vanilla PMMP it seems to occur when taking a long time to write a sign even on an empty server, seems time related mostly. I will get a video of this tomorrow.

P.s sorry dktapps didn't realise the person posting before me was advertising.

[dktapps]

Excuse me. Thank you for advertising on our repository. Banned.