Replay server connection reset issue

Hi all,

since the 2021.12.0 client update I am experiencing multiple ladder game crashed due to a "replay server connection problem":

2022-01-04 14:02:17.303 INFO 13376 --- [Thread-108] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl : Starting ICE adapter with command: [f:\forged alliance forever\jre\bin\java.exe, -jar, F:\Forged Alliance Forever\natives\faf-ice-adapter.jar, --id, 84936, --login, cpehonk, --rpc-port, 39906, --gpgnet-port, 22591]
2022-01-04 14:02:18.348 INFO 13376 --- [Thread-108] c.f.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService : Starting Forged Alliance with command: [C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe, /init, init.lua, /nobugreport, /uef, /log, C:\ProgramData\FAForever\logs\game_16053125.log, /gpgnet, 127.0.0.1:22591, /mean, 650.307, /deviation, 66.7218, /savereplay, gpgnet://127.0.0.1:64701/16053125/cpehonk.SCFAreplay, /country, DE, /numgames, 5778, /team, 3, /players, 2, /startspot, 2, /numgames, 5264] in directory: C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin
2022-01-04 14:02:48.608 WARN 13376 --- [Thread-107] c.f.client.replay.ReplayServerImpl : Error while recording replay

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.implRead(NioSocketImpl.java:323)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.read(NioSocketImpl.java:350)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl$1.read(NioSocketImpl.java:803)
at java.base/java.net.Socket$SocketInputStream.read(Socket.java:981)
at java.base/java.io.InputStream.read(InputStream.java:218)
at com.faforever.client.replay.ReplayServerImpl.recordAndRelay(ReplayServerImpl.java:145)
at com.faforever.client.replay.ReplayServerImpl.lambda$start$1(ReplayServerImpl.java:98)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832)

2022-01-04 14:02:48.609 WARN 13376 --- [Thread-107] c.f.client.replay.ReplayServerImpl : Error in replay server

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.implRead(NioSocketImpl.java:323)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.read(NioSocketImpl.java:350)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl$1.read(NioSocketImpl.java:803)
at java.base/java.net.Socket$SocketInputStream.read(Socket.java:981)
at java.base/java.io.InputStream.read(InputStream.java:218)
at com.faforever.client.replay.ReplayServerImpl.recordAndRelay(ReplayServerImpl.java:145)
at com.faforever.client.replay.ReplayServerImpl.lambda$start$1(ReplayServerImpl.java:98)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832)

any hints?

greetings
Chris

The failure to connect to the replay server should not be crashing games. Do you mean you just get a notification that the replay server couldn't be started or does the game actually exit?

That's interesting. I'm the replay server maintainer, I'll ask for replay server logs and see if anything comes up. Might just be firewall blocking the connection or something.

Unfortunately, it shutdowns the running instance of supcom. Firewall is not the problem, because it works from time to time. Especially, if I restart the client. The first match is fine ...
Can I upload the log file here? Or just put it into a posting?

Greetings & thx
Chris

ice-adapter.2022-01-04.log

Now that I think of it, this might actually be unrelated to the replay server, as in the server we run to save and record replays. I think that the client uses the name "replay server" to refer to the code that saves a replay locally. Pretty confusing. In that case the problem is not with the replay server, but with FA process crashing.

So if "replay server error" is the wrong information on the breakdown, well, how to isolate the problem source? A firewall problem should persist all the time, not only sometimes. I experienced this error behaviour right after the update to the client version 2021.12.0. Before, everything looked fine. Any clues ?

If it is a client thing would have to see the client.log file to verify

client.log.2022-01-04.zip

Just one addition: client 2021.11.0 does not have this problem. I re-installed the previous client version and the connection problem is gone.