My kerbal on EVA is now considered 'debris'

[Spark Plug]

This is Neldon Kerman.

Three hours of mission time ago, he was happily driving his rover across the Far Eastern Munar crater.

30 kilometers out from the lander craft, the rover ran into trouble with the terrain. After flipping over several times, Neldon ragdolled in his seat. And when he got up again, he was lodged into the command seat, as you can see below. He's not frozen in the T-arms model position, as I could still move him around with WASD, and even jump with the spacebar.

I could also activate his RCS pack, and after wiggling around a bit he finally fell forward off of the rover. But then the vehicle flipped again and continued down the Munar slope without him. From that moment on he was, according to the vessel labels, a piece of debris from his rover. As expected with a piece of debris, no controls worked. You can see him just standing there in the first photo with his pack still active. Is there some sort of fix for this?

If there isn't then I plan on just leaving him for dead and chalking up the loss to "Mun dust induced paralysis" (that's me using the videogame cruelty potential there)

Edited June 4, 2014 by Spark Plug
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[Kasuha]

You may want to take a look at this thread, a lot of info about bugs and fixes for them is collected in there.

Including help with uncontrollable Kerbals.

[Claw]

Yep, there is a fix for your frozen kerbal in my thread that Kasuha posted. If it doesn't make sense or you run into a problem, let me know.

Good Luck,

-Claw

[Spark Plug]

Alright, I checked out that thread and then edited my persistent file as instructed/recommended.

It worked just fine and Neldon is safe back in the capsule with his crew!