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I'm using DROD 5.0.1.6061 on 64-bit linux.
Today I've experienced the following: after the usual initial loading screen with a door, the game silently crashed. It created a drod.pid file with contents
$PID:8a00003:
(the PIDs were different on different tries, but the string stayed the same), but didn't touch the log files. In terminal, it also printed
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Type is not convertible to string

I tried to rename the ~/.local/share/Caravel Games/drod-5_0/ directory, then the game started normally. After that, I removed the newly-created directory, restored the old one and the game magically worked again. Interestingly, while it's running, the drod.pid file contains the text
$PID:1600003:

02-02-2015 at 07:34 PM
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This was related to some server-side issues we were having this morning. It has been resolved on our side and hopefully you shouldn't see this problem again.


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Would be neat to have a mechanism to catch this error and handle it gracefully.

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