-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] #1 The Electronic Protection Act was something I learmed in college some 5 years ago. Not sure but it just may be USA standards.
#2 The account used for my dedicated server is not FREE there are PAID packages on the account (Thought I needed to when I wanted to host condition zero server) #3 Linux Distros (as you call them) all run off the same base engine. U N I X so what is the problem? On the lighter side, thank you for getting back to me and explaining what this error means. I am very busy at the time so I will look into trying this solution sometime over the weekend when my server is not so busy Thanks Krillin On 10/26/06, Ondřej Hošek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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: > > -- > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > 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 > >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
