No worries. Thanks for the reply and ideas! ("thoughts and prayers"?).
I'm just going to abandon the idea of using more than one linux user to run
it under.
That's the easiest path forward right now.
Glad I don't have to run processes like that for work in a "secure"
environment!
The SecOps folks would be like: "What do you mean you can't specify exactly
what ports and paths the process uses?"
:-)
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 8:12 PM Ook <ooksser...@zootal.com> wrote:
> Isn't /tmp normally chmod 777? Anyone should be able to write to it. In
> this case, it should be able to create /tmp/dumps (if someone else doesn't
> already own it), and then write to it. It's possible the message is a
> canned message and something else is wrong. Like the maybe the devs just
> assumed you would use root to install it? If I had time (I don't tonight,
> sorry), I would give it a shot myself to see if maybe it's weirdly distro
> related. What is your steamcmd command line(s)?
>
> On 2/23/21 9:04 PM, Mecha Weasel wrote:
>
> Yep, disk space is wide open.
> Tried opening-up perms on /tmp/dumps to new user or even just "users", did
> not help.
> In fact, it broke SteamCMD similarly under the user that I normally use.
> Deleting with/without manually re-creating /tmp/dumps still had same
> issues.
> Had to reboot to get /tmp cleaned-up and everything working for
> normal/existing game server user.
>
> Just weird that I would really like to keep both users 100% isolated from
> each other and non-priv. But, I don't see any way to tell SteamCMD to not
> use that shared /tmp/dumps folder.
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:49 PM Ook <ooksser...@zootal.com> wrote:
>
>> Does dmesg show anything of interest? I assume you checked free space?
>> Have you tried opening up privileges on /tmp/dumps? Either chown to your
>> users, or chmod 777 and see what happens? FWIW, I just run steamcmd under
>> the root account, it tends to simplify things.
>>
>> On 2/23/21 8:20 PM, Mecha Weasel wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hmm... I am trying for the first time to have game-server instances
>> running under different simultaneous (non-root/non-sudo/unprivileged) linux
>> users, and noticed that SteamCMD is failing during a SourceDS install for a
>> game, complaining about a "disk write" error and something to do with
>> "/tmp/dumps"?
>>
>> I deleted it, and let it get re-created, but SteamCMD *still *throws a
>> "disk write" error.
>>
>> This is under Debian Linux 10 (Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 on x86_64).
>>
>> Anyone seen and overcome this?
>> Sample below ...
>>
>> [ 0%] Checking for available updates...
>> [----] Verifying installation...
>> Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation
>> -- type 'quit' to exit --
>> Loading Steam API...OK.
>>
>> Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...Logged in OK
>> Waiting for user info...OK
>> ERROR! Failed to install app '295230' (Disk write failure)
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> +------------------------------+
>> | [F+M] Freaks & Misfits: |
>> | ___ ___ |
>> | | _| _____ __ __ |_ | |
>> | | | | ___|_ | \/ | | | |
>> | | | | |_ _| |_| . . | | | |
>> | | | | _|_ _| |\/| | | | |
>> | | | | | |_| | | | | | | |
>> | | |_ \_| \_| |_/ _| | |
>> | |___| |___| |
>> +------------------------------+
>> | Steam-Community: |
>> | FreaksMisfits |
>> | Web-Site: |
>> | FreaksMisfits.club |
>> | E-Mail: |
>> | wea...@freaksmisfits.club |
>> +------------------------------+
>>
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> --
> ------------------------------
>
> +------------------------------+
> | [F+M] Freaks & Misfits: |
> | ___ ___ |
> | | _| _____ __ __ |_ | |
> | | | | ___|_ | \/ | | | |
> | | | | |_ _| |_| . . | | | |
> | | | | _|_ _| |\/| | | | |
> | | | | | |_| | | | | | | |
> | | |_ \_| \_| |_/ _| | |
> | |___| |___| |
> +------------------------------+
> | Steam-Community: |
> | FreaksMisfits |
> | Web-Site: |
> | FreaksMisfits.club |
> | E-Mail: |
> | wea...@freaksmisfits.club |
> +------------------------------+
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| ___ ___ |
| | _| _____ __ __ |_ | |
| | | | ___|_ | \/ | | | |
| | | | |_ _| |_| . . | | | |
| | | | _|_ _| |\/| | | | |
| | | | | |_| | | | | | | |
| | |_ \_| \_| |_/ _| | |
| |___| |___| |
+------------------------------+
| Steam-Community: |
| FreaksMisfits |
| Web-Site: |
| FreaksMisfits.club |
| E-Mail: |
| wea...@freaksmisfits.club |
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