spells on scrolls/wands/staffs error

It probably is well known, so hopefully the answer aswell (I check the internet, but it seems like most of the answers are done by mail or something O_o).
Anyway, the mud crashes when you try to loadup an area that has a scroll/wand/staff with a spell written on it.
The errors it gives:


I ran GDB, but it results in kinda nothing, so that's not really an option to solve this.
Line 35 points to the spell it's connected to. I also checked db.c for any possible area_version checks that I missed, and changed those.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?
(It's kinda a vital part of the mud, because we use the study snippet)

Can you paste that object from the area file? It looks like it might have the end character for objects written in the wrong place.

Note that this item uses the name scroll, but actually is a wand (Tried that because scrolls also give the same bug)

Well, the #0 seems to me to be a problem, as I beleive that says the next objects vnum is 0

I think that #0 is used to 'close' a part of the area, because Mobiles also has that #0 and so do the room part at the end.
Like:

or

But I'll give it a check
-just checked, didnt work

Perhaps you could explain this a bit?

I connected GDB to the running smaug process and recreated the crash (loada bla.are). It only shows this:
Program exited with code 01.

I don't think that will be helpfull

How did you make that scroll? By hand? In the Area Editor? I tried pasting that snippet into one of my areas and got the same message. Sounds like you have left out something or put too much in.

Gdb won't help here, the program hasn't crashed, it has given a designed error message because it doesn't understand your area file.

It was made by hand.
Really basic, I guess.

After that it was saved, and we rebooted the mud. Then the crash kept happening.

Check how the other objects are layed out. If you see no difference, delete the object lines, and try again. Does the area end correctly? You need #$ I believe.

Yep, everything is correct, and the area ends with the #$.
I think it's the spell that causes the error, because this only happens with scrolls/wands and staffs.

Try making the object without the spell on it, if that works, good, try it with the spell, if that doesn't, then you know where it is and where to look.

At the very top of your area file, is there a line that has:

#VERSION 1

on it? If not then for some reason your code is not saving the proper version info on the file and when it gets to the spell name it becomes confused because it was not expecting to see that.

Spell names like you have for your object will only work if the file is version 1 or above. Unmodified 1.4a areas will not have the version header in them.

It has a #VERSION 2 above it

Seems like I got it to work. It was a small error in one of the area checks, which didn't check the latest area's (so with the highest numbers). I made it so it also checks that, and now it works :)

The only problem now is that on loading the area, the skill written in the scroll/wand/staff switches to a different spell/skill..

-Scratch that problem, I fixed it. :)