Probe/Sat launched from ship causes issue

[Daffs]

My grand plan was to revisit jool and some of it's moons.

Last outing saw me trying to run some Atmosphere Analysis in Jool's atmoshere but this always resulted in me getting sucked in. So this time I decided to be clever and add a small remote probe which I could launch from the main ship into Jool to get the science for me before it was destroyed.

Problem is after the probe is destroyed when I switch back to the main ship the game bugs and won't continue. (Black screen, altimeter just rolls and speed is NaNm, even Jeb looks scared).

Anybody else have this problem or know of a way of not having to relaunch the mission?

Edited May 23, 2014 by Daffs

[Claw]

Ohh, if this is a stock game please post a copy of your save file!

I would recommend keeping a copy of your quicksave and/or persistence files while you try to figure out a workaround. Your craft may become corrupted at some point, and there won't be a recover from that.

One thing you could try is after your probe is destroyed, exit back to the space center first. Then get back to your main ship through the tracking center.

If that doesn't work, try exiting out of the game completely after your probe's death (maybe throw in a quicksave after). Then restart KSP and go back to your main ship.

Also, I would recommend opening up the debug log (ALT+F12, then click on the debug tab. Scroll to the bottom.) You can watch here as you separate the probe and do the science/crash and see if any errors pop up. You can also post your ksp_log.txt or any other crash logs to a site like pastebin, then post the link here for people to look through.

[Daffs]

Thanks for the reply Claw.

I did a bit of reading on the wiki and this sounds like the Hell Kraken bug as after restarting KSP the main ship was gone as well.

I tried repeating the events and no issue today. (Shut the computer down and start again...seriously, this old IT trick worked)

I've got the debug log from today's repeat and captured the quicksave file. I'll have a look at pastebin over the weekend so I can upload the savefile.

Thanks again.

Oh and this was a stock version of the game, no mods.

Edited May 23, 2014 by Daffs
adding details.

[Claw]

Ahh, okay. glad it is working correctly now.