TrinityCore/TrinityCore — Issue #4096: Undeleted characters show up as <Unknown Character-Name> until server reboot.
Author: Kabekiz
Created: 2011-11-27 05:27:34+00:00
State: open

What should happen: When character enters the world the worldserver polls the database for the characters name.

What is happening instead: Characters that were undeleted since the server started have no name as the server gets name data from the database upon start up.

https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/commit/0bb86a3e97cf720512ae00c9bee209a30c5fb928 this is the commit that introduced the bug.

Some of the issues from this problematic commit were fixed in this commit...
https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/commit/6cd78a520a61ba59ecf721f47fc5ac9166b139e5