The problem was that the ~/.steam/ClientRegistry.blob needed to be deleted. I tried to delete it for the incorrect user a couple of times, but when i did it correctly i got rid of the annoying update crashes.
> Hello, > > I maintain a network of around 100 counterstrike servers with roughly half > of them > as bookable servers in a cluster, for a large cs community in Sweden. > > I run all of the servers on linux gentoo, some on i686 and some on amd64. > > The cluster software I use is sun grid engine 6, and all the server nodes > are diskless clients. > > The ordinary servers run fine, but the bookable ones crash momentarily > with the > following error: > > --------------------------------- > AssertPreCondition > Name: NonNullFilePath > Expr: !sFile.empty() > Line: 334 > File: ../../../Common/Misc/FileUtil.cpp > ./hlds_run: line 303: 8855 Aborted (core dumped) $CMD > --------------------------------- > > I browsed the forums and mailing list and found people with similar > problems from > late 2005 running FreeBSD 5.4. Their answer to the problem was to update > cs using > the steam updater. I did that for all 60 cs installations I got on the > bookable > servers, but they still crash with the error above. I tried to examine the > core > dumps and strace'ing the processes but I didn't find any useful > information. > > Regards, > Jonathan Selander > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
