[Responded] Staring launcher displays the following messages

1. Staring launcher displays the following messages....

the-Avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher
Found path: /home1/jzc/Shroud-of-the-Avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/Shroud of the Avatar - Launcher.x86_64
There is no data folder

Then back to the prompt.

2. Always
3. Yes
4. Start up the launcher, display the following messages...
the-Avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher
Found path: /home1/jzc/Shroud-of-the-Avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/Shroud of the Avatar - Launcher.x86_64
There is no data folder

Then back to the prompt.

5. Start up the launcher then displays the following messages....

the-Avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher
Found path: /home1/jzc/Shroud-of-the-Avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/Shroud of the Avatar - Launcher.x86_64
There is no data folder

Then back to the prompt.

6.

CPU: AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor (4700 MHz)
Memory: 16058 MB
OS Version: Linux 4.11.5-200.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 14 17:17:29 UTC 2017 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2

OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.66


I asked this before but is there a way to get a trace going so that I can see what it is doing?

Dozer

 

You could use gdb, but its often not an easy process..

 

Any Devs?

Dozer

 

Its sunday - they are allowed weekends

 

I love you all my chickadees, but if I had to work 7 days a week I'm pretty sure none of you would like me!

Please try to stick to one thread, otherwise it may seem like we are starting from square one. But let's start from here since we're here now.
I've referred your prior post to some linux folks and they were kinda stumped. I don't know how to answer your question just yet.
Can you tell me what you have done so far to troubleshoot?
I'm sorry, I am not used to seeing issues quite like this.

Prior post here: https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f...lays-a-blank-pop-up-window-under-linux.93751/

 

Lexie,

I have since fixed that problem with the blanked pop up window when I started the launcher, this one is a new one.

I have done reloading the launcher software, deleting the directory where the launching files are and reloading it... deleting the pref files even copying a working copy of SotA from another machine. All of that getting the same messages...

My feeling is that something in my system is really doing a real number in that whenever I start the launcher, it blows up with the same messages.

I like to know where the "There is no data folder" message is is being printed from.

As for what I am going to do is, since I have done everything in my home directory that I can do, I'm going to reload the OS and since Fedora just come out last week, I'm going to install the new release soon.

And sorry for bothering you devs about this issue.

Dozer

 

@Knight Dozer Belador which anti virus are you using - have you tried temporarily disabling it? there are a couple that seem to view the fact the launcher is a torrent as a bad thing.

 

Liz,

On a Linux system? There is no virus scanning on this PC.

Dozer

 

fair enough - many people would run an antivirus on linux it was just a thought.Did you have any luck with gdb?

 

Liz,

No. I do wish that there is some kind of high level tracing built in the game. Using gdb requires that has to know what to trace.

Dozer

 

@Knight Dozer Belador fair enough .. althoguh running "gdb <command>" and then typing run. will run the command and monitor it

 

could you update your previous post with the solution for future reference?

 

gameserver.shroudoftheavatar.com use this to trace route, but note we don't reply to pings
Sorry for the delay, I'm still a bit of a noob around the office sometimes...
@Knight Dozer Belador

 

think he meant a local stack trace, not a networking traceroute.

 

Aye, thats why I suggested gdb, which would trace all these things, but it seems to be pushed aside

 

Ok... did some digging and this is the problem...

stat("/home1/jzc/shroud-of-the-avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/Data/data.unity3d", 0x7ffe15cfb030) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home1/jzc/shroud-of-the-avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/Data/data.unity3d", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(1, "There is no data folder\n", 24There is no data folder
) = 24
munmap(0x7fc45c645000, 1052672) = 0
munmap(0x7fc45c244000, 4198400) = 0
munmap(0x7fc45cb47000, 8392704) = 0
munmap(0x7fc460634000, 1052672) = 0
getpid() = 18980
exit_group(1) = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

What it should have done... is do a stat for the next directory down.. llike this...


stat("/home1/jzc/shroud-of-the-avatar/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/

Then the access... how did I determine that?

I move the StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/ directory up the tree... to be like this...
/home1/jzc/StandaloneLinuxUniversalPatcher/

And yep... it started right up...

So the patcher has a bug in that it does not properly go to the base directory of where the patcher program is... It should have go down as many levels it takes to get to where the patcher program started from

Dozer