Ok, i'm a little out of practise with all this but a couple of things you can try.
1. run the installer with -verify_all at the install directory. 2. iirc, doesn't centOS chroot the home directory to stop people running apps from there? If so i would suggest creating a folder on the root of the drive for your game servers and then try running it. 3. I know this is a pain and probably isn't necessary at all but you could always try a different distro. I personally have never got on with cent and have preferred opensuse or fedora (shoot me down if you want) albeit very heavily modified and the results have been great. Use this one as a very last resort though because as i said, it's not very practical. Other than that, without have a box handy to run any tests on i can't help much more. Oh, before i forget. The processor thing (and this is a bit of a long shot) could be related to the kernel being optimized incorrectly. Personally, i've not seen that behaviour before but i'm guessing that all hlds_run does is ask the kernel for what it thinks the processor type is and it then runs the binary it thinks matches. So if the kernel is giving out the wrong info hlds_run is going to run the wrong binary, but that is only a guess. I'd love to see what the more up to date guys has to say about this one if i turn out to be wrong coz it's very strange. And one last thing. Make sure you have the latest versions of gcc and co because they was an update recently that changed the version requirements of hlds and srcds for gcc. Can't remember what the exact versions where but i'm sure one of the guys will know. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frederic Breitwieser Sent: 06 May 2010 03:59 To: [email protected] Subject: [hlds_linux] hlds/Centos issues. Greetings, I have been working on this for about a week without much joy, despite the frantic googling and repeated re-installations I have done. I have several problems, but am unable to determine if they are related. I run the server directly on the command line, as user "hlds" with a home directory of /home/hlds. Hlds_linux is installed in that home directory, as this user account is to be used only for the game server. The game is DOD (goldsource). [h...@gameserver~]$ ./hlds_run -console -dod +map dod_kalt +maxplayers 29 -IP *PUBLICIP* -port 27015 -sys_ticrate 200 -pingboost 2 -debug The response I get is as follows: Auto detecting CPU Using AMD Optimised binary. Enabling debug mode Auto-restarting the server on crash Console initialized. scandir failed:/home/hlds/./platform/SAVE Protocol version 48 Exe version 1.1.2.1/Stdio (valve) Exe build: 16:56:04 Mar 8 2010 (4883) STEAM Auth Server couldn't exec language.cfg Server IP address *PUBLICIP*:27015 map change failed: 'dod_kalt' not found on server. couldn't exec listip.cfg couldn't exec banned.cfg *** first, I'm not sure why this script chose to use the AMD optimized binary, because the machine is a Dell Power Edge 1750 sporting a pair of Xeon 3.2 Ghz processors. *** second, I'm not sure why it cannot find the dod_kalt map. I also tried +map kalt on the command line in place of +map dod_kalt with no luck. This happens regardless of which map I specify, yet all the maps are there in /home/hlds/dod/maps directory. ***When a user connects, I get this error: ./hlds_run: line 321: 3665 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $HL_CMD Cannot access memory at address 0xbfd95e34 /home/hlds/debug.cmds:4: Error in sourced command file: Cannot access memory at address 0xbfd95e34 email debug.log to [email protected] Wed May 5 22:48:21 EDT 2010: Server restart in 10 seconds *** then the above repeats when a player tries to connect to the server. I also tried this without the -debug option and the complaints from the script about the debug.cmds:4 went away, so obviously I used that parameter incorrectly. I also disabled iptables (firewall) so all ports were open the world, as a test, with the same results so that is not a direct cause of this issue. I did remember to "yum install gbd". I did find this segmentation fault at line 321 error all over the 'net, but didn't see any resolution other than to reinstall steam which I've done over and over. I'm still perplexed as to why this script "discovers" an AMD processor when there are authentic Intel Xeons in the server. Could that be related? I attempted to run the hlds_I486 and hlds_i686 binaries directly with the same parameters as above, however neither of them could find the libsteam series of libraries, and I imagine that's due to not having them in the path or something along those lines. Any advice, help or even ridicule would be welcome at this point. Thank you in advance. --- Frederic Breitwieser Woodbridge Data LLC 40 Warwick Road Colonia NJ 07067 V: (732) 669-0601 x9001 http://www.woodbridgedata.com _______________________________________________ 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
