ship wont dock anymore

[diggzakk]

hi there, i facing a strange problem now..

i docking ships for a while now and i am familiar with it, not perfect but much better after 20 times compared to the first try

but now there is a problem, i have a station in orbit with two docking ports.. i docked one additional module to it for a contract to extend with two more docking ports with no problem, then i docked a spaceship for a future mission to duna with no problem, again after i docked another spaceship to it, because i was in the near and had lot of fuel left and decide to store it there, docking no problem and undock and back to kerbin.. this brings me to the idea to shoot the same ship back up again to bring more fuel, just change the fuel tank to bring even more (the plan is to seperate the station into two parts and dock one again as a additional tank to the duna ship)

 

so here comes the problem, the ship i bring up again wont dock anymore, first it seems that the magnetism works but the ship refused to finisch the procedure.. so i try 5 approaches again (without any magnetism noticed) before i start to ask google, so then i moved the ship far away again, change focus to station, jump into another ship, go back to space center, exit game, restart game, back to the ship, start again the docking but it wont dock.. nothing happens when both docking port junior match exactly, i have everything in mind, control from here, target the target docking port, transfer crew to that part of station, everything has electricity, nothing helps.. so i undock the dead part of this station, which had no control, to dock at the remaining part to another docking port jr. same issue there.. then i undock the future mission to duna ship from his port, and try to dock again, same issue, i terminate the dead part of the station, also no helpfull to dock the remaining ships together

if anybody like to lock into this, i would upload the savegame and any help would be very apreciated

Edited December 21, 2015 by diggzakk

[A_name]

I've heard this happen before, if I remember right it's a bug where the docking ports think they're already docked so they won't connect. You have to edit your save file to tell the docking ports they're undocked, then it'll work. Sadly, I don't know which part to edit or how, but it's out there, you can look for it.

[diggzakk]

okay this is something, more or less helpfull

i found a lot of unanswered questions describing the problem, unfortunately no advice at all, nothing

then fortunately i found this site http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/1158 and it refers to a ksp forum bug whatever post, but unfortunately the post no longer exist, maybe due to the forum change, greatfull

so i have to search and search more

 

but at least somehow now i know what i have to search for and also the savegame editing is something i can deal with

 

thx a lot so far

[Starhawk]

@Kuzzter faced a similar problem in his Duna, Ore Bust! mission.  Take a look at this post.  It will give you a clue as to the location of the line that needs editing.

Happy landings!

[diggzakk]

i made it successfully, change the docking port status of the ship(s) from aquired to ready do the trick and dock again nicely

Edited December 21, 2015 by diggzakk

[FancyMouse]

Just be aware of the Ready fix - the docking port may be still connecting one ship, and changing it to Ready may silently destroy your other ship it originally connected to.

It happens to me when I undock from my tug from my Minmus base, save while still they're close enough, I then reload, fly to orbit, try to dock tug with something. It doesn't dock, and I fixed the docking port to ready status - then my Minmus base disappeared.

All my point is be cautious about the Ready fix.