Is Jeb Dead?

[RocketBlam]

Jeb is on the moon. I was trying to get him on board his rover and something went south... now I can switch to Jeb, but he won't move or activate his rocket pack. I can't control him at all. Is he dead? Or... undead?

Possessed by a Mun spirit maybe?

Not sure what I can do with him.

[Dooz]

A mun spirit seems more likely.

[UmbralRaptor]

He's most likely bugged. Any change that saving/reloading or restarting KSP will help? Does he show up as debris in the tracking station?

[RocketBlam]

He shows up as Jebediah... I mean, I can "fly" him, he just won't do anything. Pressing "R" does not turn on his rocket pack, he won't walk, right-clicking on him does nothing but show me how much RCS fuel he has. Can't do EVA report, etc. But he is standing up straight.

The more I think about it, the more I think he's a zombie.

[Mitchz95]

Are you running the latest version of 0.23.5? There was a problem where Kerbals would suddenly become unresponsive, and Squad released a patch to fix it. Download the new version and copy over your save.

Alternatively, go into your persistence file and make sure Jeb's classified as an "EVA". Sometimes it accidentally gets switched to "Base", "Debris", etc.

[Legendary Emu]

One time I was launching a boat and now I have kind of the same problem. Bob and Jeb are stuck in the command seats in EVA mode. Bill was flung into the water because of a high center of mass and I can't move him. I can right click bob and jeb as if they were doing EVA (I can see EVA report and surface sample) but I can't get them to leave the seat.

[RocketBlam]

OK, this just happened again. I was driving a rover with Jack Kerbin and it crashed, and he became unresponsive. I quit and reloaded, and now he is gone, listed as "missing in action" in the astronaut complex.

Jeb is listed as "Vessel: Jebediah Kerman. Seat: Passenger Seat. Part: kerbalEVA."

Some serious bugging going on here.

[Capt. Hunt]

Jeb's dead baby, Jeb's dead.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

And that's not a rocket ship, it's a chopper.

Yeah, I've had the same problem on a couple of kerbalnauts

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

When you switch to jeb, is their a nav ball at the bottom of the screen?

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Did he bump his head sometime ago???

Seriously, this happens to me a lot! I play with my rovers, doing crazy flips and rolls, end up bumping one of the guy's heads, and he ends up immobilized!

Didn't find a solution for this, except for going back in time before that happened :^(

It's because for some reason the game classes those kerbals as debris and they loose the ability to walk and use their jet pack, because their debris. It hasn't happened to me for a while but I believe if it happens to you a lot, you should just use a capsule.

[RocketBlam]

Did he bump his head sometime ago???

Seriously, this happens to me a lot! I play with my rovers, doing crazy flips and rolls, end up bumping one of the guy's heads, and he ends up immobilized!

Didn't find a solution for this, except for going back in time before that happened :^(

Yes! They end up being dislodged a little from their seat, and after that, they are zombies.

[InterCity]

I am solving these issues by editing persistence.sfs. It mostly works.

[RocketPilot573]

Re-download the update, there is a fix.

[Xaelath]

The infamous "Frozen Kerbal" bug strikes again!

[Richy teh space man]

I suppose one solution to this would be to grab them with the ARM part, then take them back to Kerbin and recover them.

I had this happen in a previous save to Kerbonauts on Eve, and ended up having to abandon them.

[cantab]

Yes! They end up being dislodged a little from their seat, and after that, they are zombies.

There are various bugs around with EVAing Kerbals. The one where a Kerbal in a seat gets bumped and becomes uncontrollable, yet remains attached to the craft, can be solved by editing the persistence file

[Thogapotomus]

When a kerbal gets his head bashed in by a nasty accident I think I can understand why he would be paralyzed lol. Well, if it wasn't for some that survive hitting the ground from orbit

[cypher_00]

I had the same problem. Look here for how to fix it:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/75586-Master-Thread-Unresponsive-Kerbals-in-EVA

[Xetalim]

Looks like he has entered a vegetative state, you can try turning it on and off again?

[problemecium]

I guess Kerbals aren't immortal after all...

[boxman]

Jeb is on the moon. I was trying to get him on board his rover and something went south... now I can switch to Jeb, but he won't move or activate his rocket pack. I can't control him at all. Is he dead? Or... undead?

Possessed by a Mun spirit maybe?

Not sure what I can do with him.

I think this is a bug in 23.5 as this happens with EVERY kerbal for me if i EVA and then switch back to space center or quit the game. When I come back they are all lifeless on the ground and switching to them does not let me control them at all.

[jacobonduna]

The Kraken has taken Jeb hostage

[xcorps]

The Kraken has taken Jeb hostage

Heresy.

The Kraken does not take hostages. She recovers his lost children.

[Special Agent Sigvan]

Heresy.

The Kraken does not take hostages. She recovers his lost children.

She?

It's a she?

[Tery215]

Jeb's a zombie. Send a probe missile to destroy him before the disease(/mun spirit(/demon from beyond(/Kraken))) spreads to a lander, which in turn would return to Kerbin with the zombitis.