BC2 Server Kicking for "PB INIT"

[PowersGaming]

Players are getting kicked due to to some problems with PunkBuster "INIT", tho we updated thru www.evenbalance.com. Anybody else having these problems ? Know a way to fix it ?

Thanks in advance !
Jason

[PowersGaming]

working fine now.. must have been a PB update ?

[Edge100x]

Nod, that sounds like a PB update or other glitch on their side (possibly with their back-end). I'm glad they got it resolved fairly quickly!

[maelstrom]

do we have to manually update our own servers with the PB files? or is that done on the NFO GSP admin side?

[IcEWoLF]

Usually its done through steam automatically, but sometimes it may not work, so you have to run the auto installer to make sure it works properly, that did it for me 2 days ago and few of my members.

[Edge100x]

On the server side, PB generally does a pretty good job of updating itself, but you can also force an update with this command:

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punkBuster.pb_sv_command pb_sv_update

After running that, you might have to wait a minute and then restart the server to see results.

[maelstrom]

thanks!

[Johnny]

Just tonight, for the first time, I had a punkbuster problem. Apparently, so have all the other players, and now server is empty, so I forced the update. Here is the error all the players were getting, as well as me:

PunkBuster Server: VIOLATION (COMFAIL) #133: zoOom69 (slot #2) PB INIT FAILURE (If this persists, visit evenbalance.com and click support to manually update PunkBuster) [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(-) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000]

[Johnny]

Update: I tried both my computers. I manually updated PB on both, manually updated the server and am getting picked for PB INIT failure, see above.

Now I know why the server was empty lol.

Are others having the same problem? I know this was happening a couple days back as per the heading on this post, but thought it was fixed.

[Johnny]

Oops, just saw I posted some info on the above message that I probably shouldnt have in the error message. Edge if you could, maybe delete the info? Thanks:)

[Edge100x]

I've heard that stopping the server for a couple of minutes and then restarting it might help with this PB problem. Could you give that a go?

The problem is pretty wide spread

(Edit done)

[Johnny]

Thanks for the edit, gosh I don't think sometimes:)

I did exactly what you asked, and now no more kicks, superb!

Question, will I need to monitor closer to make sure servers are restarted after patches?

I saw that we had some people post about the PB update but I failed to see those before this thread.

[Edge100x]

Evenbalance is supposed to handle the updates without any of us having to touch anything. If that's not happening, hopefully it's a bug they will have fixed soon. Generally updates get less and less frequent with time, as well.

Beyond the suggestion I gave, we can try clearing out your PB files completely to run a total server-side update. If you'd like to move forward with that, please let us know through "Help!".