Instead of generating a new thread on the same topic, I'll piggy-back onto this one since I appear to have the same 'symptom' - ie, client appears stuck on "Item definitions".
Using a Raspberry Pi Model B with 512 of RAM and Raspbian OS as the 'server' so installation was an easy "sudo apt-get install minetest minetest-server". no problems there. Client is Minetest 0.4.10-74-g8948907 on Mac OS X (Mavericks). Client connects to other servers online without problem.
I stopped and started it a few times, created a minetest.conf after realizing there wasn't one in the .minetest directory and tried again. Same result.
Started up server using:
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/usr/games/minetestserver --info-on-stderr
and everything looks good on the console:
I connect via the Mac client, and the console reflects this:
Stopped the server via CTRL-C and it looks like it shut down cleanly:
Yet the Mac client stays stuck on "Item definitions" after the server is shutdown:
At one point I leave for dinner and let it continue running. When I returned, there was a spawn event of rats (at 21.05:29 in the screenshot below), so that tells me the server was probably ok:
And now... as I look back at the screenshots I had a 'DOH' moment...I see that the server is running at version 0.3.1, while the client is running at 0.4.10. So my first guess is there is an incompatibility between client and server. If not, any suggestions as to what I should look at or post here to give you more info?
I'll look into doing a fresh compile (instead of grabbing the pre-made, and obviously old package) and post my results whether good or bad, in the meantime.
Thanks for your time!