Hornet Leader II installation down?

Module Support
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Hello!

I can not install Hornet Leader II anymore. After starting to load, the installation breaks off with an error message:

“Unable to launch the application”
“Unable to load resource: (vassalengine.org/ws/VASSAL.jar, 3.0.6)”
“java.io.IOException: missing version response from server”

Unsurprisingly, this happens on completely unrelated machines (Lenovo X61 running Windows XP and iMac running Snow Leopard).
Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated!

I have in parallel emailed DVG and would post any response from them here.

Martin

2

Thus spake blackice:

Hello!

I can not install Hornet Leader II anymore. After starting to load, the
installation breaks off with an error message:

“Unable to launch the application”
“Unable to load resource: (vassalengine.org/ws/VASSAL.jar[1],
3.0.6)”
“java.io.IOException: missing version response from server”

Unsurprisingly, this happens on completely unrelated machines (Lenovo
X61 running Windows XP and iMac running Snow Leopard).
Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated!

I have in parallel emailed DVG and would post any response from them
here.

Martin

This is a known problem due to the site migration. I’m travelling right
now, so won’t have time to fix it before next week.

–
J.

3

Thanks for your quick response.

I would be grateful if you could post a short note here once it is fixed and accessible again.

All the best on your travels,

Martin

4

Has there been an update to this? I am experiencing the same issues.

5

Thus spake DrTeeth:

Has there been an update to this? I am experiencing the same issues.

I haven’t had time to do anything about the problem yet. I might
sometime this week.

–
J.

6

I am experiencing the same issue. Looking forward to some form of resolution. The Hornets are getting angry! :mrgreen:

7

Thus spake Joel Uckelman:

This is a known problem due to the site migration. I’m travelling right
now, so won’t have time to fix it before next week.

I’m working on this problem now:

vassalengine.org/tracker/sho … gi?id=2913

I hope to have it fixed soon.

–
J.

8

I think I’ve fixed the problem. Would you please test it and post the result here?

9

Hi Joel,

Thanks for looking into this.

However, it looks like we still have the same problem. I did a fresh download of the HLII game and the HLII demo. Here are the error messages.

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[attachment=0]Screen shot 2010-09-04 at 22.11.36 .png[/attachment]

It would be great if you could find a fix.

Best regards

Martin

10

Thus spake blackice:

However, it looks like we still have the same problem. I did a fresh
download of the HLII game and the HLII demo. Here are the error
messages.

Thanks for the screenshots.

HLII is using a request scheme different from the other WS requests I’ve
seen. I added an extra rule to translate the ", "-delimited request to
real filenames on our server. Try now.

–
J.

11

Hi Joel,

Unfortunately, no change. I still get identical error messages.

Thanks for keeping at it!

Martin

12

Thus spake blackice:

Hi Joel,

Unfortunately, no change. I still get identical error messages.

Thanks for keeping at it!

Martin

At this point, it’s not clear to me what I should try next. Is there
a compelling reason why this module can’t be converted to work with
VASSAL 3.1 so that I can simply avoid solving this problem?

–
J.

13

Joel, I do not know as it is a commercial module distributed by DVG. I have reached out Dan Verssen and his response was: “Rodney is moving the install files to a different server. We should have things running again in a couple days.” That was over a week ago.

I will follow up with Dan, including your suggestion in my message.

Best regards

Martin

14

Was this ever sorted out? I’ve been wanting to get back into this game for months but have been unable to…

15

Hi DrTeeth,

Dan at DVG an his crew are having troubles fixing the problem. I understand from Dan that they are on it but don’t know how long it will take them. They will post on their website (and hopefully here) once it is resolved.

Martin

16

Thus spake DrTeeth:

Was this ever sorted out? I’ve been wanting to get back into this game
for months but have been unable to…

No, and it’s unlikely that it ever will be unless someone can tell me how.

–
J.

17

Thus spake blackice:

Hi DrTeeth,

Dan at DVG an his crew are having troubles fixing the problem. I
understand from Dan that they are on it but don’t know how long it will
take them. They will post on their website (and hopefully here) once it
is resolved.

Martin

That’s news to me. I haven’t heard from them at all.

–
J.

18

Hi! Here is what Dan last wrote:

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Thus spake blackice:

Hi! Here is what Dan last wrote:

From: 	[customerservice@dvg.com](mailto:customerservice@dvg.com)[1]
Subject: 	Re: Still can not start Hornet Leader II
Date: 	October 28, 2010

Unfortunately, our Vassal software is currently down and it is taking
much
(much) longer to resolve the software issues than we ever thought
possible.

We will post a notice in our News updates when Vassal is up and
running.

Thank you for your patience with this,
-Dan

I’ve emailed them myself now, as I’m curious what they’re up to.

–
J.

20

Cool, please let us know if you find out more.

Thanks, Martin