Report for the record (in case it helps someone): After long AFK absence (the server seems to lose track of me sometimes this way) I returned to buzz around Fun House freely with Giant Bahro and Arch , and and some age overlay showing; bjk asked, w/text (out of age, it seemed) "Where did everybody go ?".. I noticed that I appeared to be the only avie remaining in FH age (no age members)...took a KI pic and put it away (small KI), then screen froze the view without error notice and no working keys or controls to move avie or KI or shut MOUL down; MOUL wouldn't "Window", and a PC Task manager summons wouldn't work. After time and confirming no obvious Disk activity, hit the PC power-down button with instant shutdown, on Vista 32bit PC.

Powered back up normally (Phew !), co-incidentally found a Flash update screaming for attention, tried to load MOUL and saw 'Auth. Fail.' after Licence query. Kinda knew what that meant, but still I failed to resist the temptation to keep trying, knowing full well nothing would change and this could be a Tuesday repair: Stopped trying some hours later to impose this on you'all, in hope this might help bring it forward to Monday.... if anyone is desperate enough to check this Forum:))

Thanks Chogon !!

And thanks to others' posts, I now know I wasn't alone

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Hi All !!.....Myst'ya !.....

Hiya abjab. LTNS indeed. Welcome back (if BACK is the right word at the moment.)
Roll on Tuesday or whenever.
Keep smiling

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definitely desperate enough to check forum,....so glad there was an explanation. I can go one maybe two days without visiting the Cavern,,but after that...look out surface...I go totally BONKERS...lol
Obviously I love this place!
See you down under...
coolies..anglemyst

Yikes! Me down too, doors are locked!

Internal error here, looking forward to fix.

@Abjab: that disconcerns me. i had to perform a hard shutdown not too long ago as well. scared me to death because this PC has already had it's OS wiped after having done so before and trashing it. this didn't occur along with an auth failed incident (afaik this is the only time we've encountered it at least to this extent since i've been here) but it occured after trying to minimize the uru game window. screen went black, controls locked up, couldn't call up task manager. that has never happened before or since. whether or not it has anything to do with our recent log in troubles i do so terribly hope it's not a new issue and that i won't encounter it again.

This appears to be simply a failure of the authorization server. Without that we can't log in (or, if we were ingame, we would eventually lose access to the vault server and freeze or go to black screen). I suspect the game and vault servers are still running which is why the online status widget some people have show the game as up.

The issue of turning off the power and trashing your operating system is a separate problem. This particular problem hasn't happened to me since Win98. Having the system freeze completely for me on a program crash happens only rarely on Vista and very rarely on Win7. XP is still a bit sensitive to crashing programs but I never had it eat the O/S.

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The cleaning crew probably tripped over the cable to the authentication server, or someone flipped the wrong breaker to shut down the office power for the long weekend...

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Seems to be back up right now! Yay!

Have fun!

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Good to hear.

Thanks chogon!

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hello and thanks !

we owe u some eggs then.

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Main_Avvie wrote:

Charura wrote:

Just noticed Main_Avvies' signature is green light go?

Dunno why it says that. Not even sure how or if this works anymore. It's OHB's trick.

No, it's not "OHB's trick."

JWPlatt wrote:

Cyan has kindly implemented a Cavern Status convention for us which allows us to graphically display the Cavern Status on OpenUru.org or any other website.

Browse to http://openuru.org/ to see our cute status light along with the status message under the menu.

reference link

But, perhaps your version was acquired from OHB's site and that's why it doesn't work - which is why it's always best to go to the original source.

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It doesn't work because it doesn't check the Auth server. I've noticed before that it doesn't work when the auth server is out.

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