Main window blackout on/near mobdeath

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Install Statdb, statmon, and broadcast_kills
2.  Start killing mobs
3.  Occasionally the screen will go completely blank on or near the
death of a mob.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected output is to mud normally, instead I see a black output window.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Latest release on Windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.

I have narrowed to these plugins based on disabling/enabling plugins.  Gonf 
says it is just StatDB/Statmon that have the issue.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by michael....@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2011 at 4:18

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I have never seen this. Those 3 plugins don't touch the buffer except to 
ColourNote things to output. If you enter a command, like "look", does it show 
the output again?  

Original comment by enda...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2011 at 4:33

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I have uploaded a video showing this in action.  After the first room is 
cleared you can see the flash of the output buffer.  It is minor, but can be 
very annoying.  I know other users have reported the issue, maybe it is 
possible a different plugin but by disabling those 3 I wasn't seeing it happen 
anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJYKfOBaUc&feature=channel_video_title

Original comment by micha...@satx.rr.com on 20 Jun 2011 at 5:31

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Also, see the other video I have uploaded.  That was before I added statmon and 
statdb and there is no flashing.

Original comment by micha...@satx.rr.com on 20 Jun 2011 at 5:39

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As of r1469, this is still occurring for me also.  Here is what I experience:
1.  Enable StatMon (Statdb and broadcast_kills gets enabled automatically)
2.  Go start killing mobs
3.  Occasionally (every 5-10 mobs or so?) the main output screen blacks out for 
about 1-2 seconds.
4.  If I close Mushclient, the program closes then it crashes and I'm prompted 
to send Microsoft crash report.

I disabled StatMon and StatDB and the issue continued (blackout and crashes on 
close).  Finally, after disabling broadcast_kills, both issues are gone.

My laptop:
Dual Core @ 2.4GHz
4 GB Ram
Windows XP SP3
Aardwolf client package r1340 (Mushclient v4.77)
Bast plugins r1469

Original comment by AardG...@gmail.com on 10 Sep 2011 at 4:36

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I believe this got corrected with the ability to reinstall the plugin. It is 
the fix we have at the moment from Nick Gammon.

Original comment by mip...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2011 at 10:09

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I still see this happen, but not just on a kill.  I am still investigating.

Original comment by enda...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2012 at 3:30