1. What is this Electronic Protection Act you speak of? I can't find it
*anywhere*.
2. Valve's consumer-oriented support team never supported the dedicated
server. Remember: they're consumer-oriented and you pay nil for the
dedicated server.
3. How the *HELL* do you want Valve to support every single Linux
distribution version with all its quirks and distro-specific patches?
Ahem. Let me switch from scathing mode to help-in-best-intentions mode.
The error you're getting is probably related to your system. "double
free or corruption" means that someone called "malloc", used the memory
and then used "free" twice... or the so-called "malloc arena" has been
thrashed. Try the following:
1. Make sure you have the newest version of glibc.
2. Try re-downloading hldsupdatetool.bin and unpacking it again. This
will give you an ancient version of the Steam binary which *might* even
work.
3. If all else fails, get yourself a blank hard drive, install a
different Linux distro on it and see if you still have problems. If you
do, it's probably a hardware bug; if not, then Mandriva is to blame.
~~ Ondra
Krillins World wrote:
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Where do we linux admins get this new update? STEAM will not update on our
newly Mandriva 2006 Powerpack systems since July of 2006. No one can answer
why. All I get from support is *DEDICATED SERVERS ARE NOT SUPPORTED*.
According to the Electronic Protection Act you are required to support all
forms of electronic software in which you release. The STEAM update just
aborts with a very odd unheard of and UNSEARCHABLE error as seen below.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hlds1_l]$ ./steam
Checking bootstrapper version ...
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x086303f8 ***
Aborted
On 10/25/06, Alfred Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have released an update to the Half-Life 1 dedicated server (for all
mods). Run the hldsupdatetool to get this update.
This update fixes win32 server staying on the first CPU of a multi-core
machine and fixes some timing problems with Steam3 login on Linux.
- Alfred
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