Thanks for helping me clarify. Since the command to install a new game
or update a new game is identical, I wasn't previously specific enough,
and I wasn't thinking about the perspective of game updates.
Here's what I think we know so far:
Updating existing games in an existing directory works fine.
Installing a new game where the directory does not exist hangs while the
CPU spins until killed.
So, all new installs are apparently failing, except where "-dir ." or
equivalent is used, unless there is something more to this.
I'll go file a bug on it...
Thanks for the behavior confirmation and isolation help.
Shane Arnold wrote:
I can also confirm that the steam updating process will hang when a
non-existent directory is specified.
Creating the directory manually, either before or during the process,
continues the installation.
It seems a bit silly the updating process does not create a directory if
one doesn't exist.
On 11/07/2010 1:38 PM, ics wrote:
For me it does, Steam just started to do this recently when i tried to
update TF2 servers. Never had this error before.
-ics
11.7.2010 5:02, bl4nk kirjoitti:
Does the folder you're trying to install it to exist?
Sent from my iPod
On Jul 10, 2010, at 6:17 PM, ics<[email protected]> wrote:
I had this issue of 100% cpu usage. Run ./steam first, let it
timeout and then the line what you are trying to. Otherwise the
Steam does it's thing.
-ics
11.7.2010 0:36, Jesse Molina kirjoitti:
Any path, other than . or . equivalent (fully qualified path),
relative to the steam binary, seems to send CPU to 100% and steam
does nothing.
This is almost certainly a stupid coder bug in Steam. It won't
install anywhere but the steam current working directory relative
to the steam binary.
FYI, yes I have deleted ~/Steam and ~/.steam and tried again.
ics wrote:
Why don't you specify a path, other than . or ./blabla? Like
/home/user/server/hl2mp into the -dir option.
-ics
10.7.2010 13:42, Jesse Molina kirjoitti:
Hello
I'm doing this;
sudo -u steamuser ./steam -command update -game hl2mp -dir
./hl2mp-whatever
And, my CPU core goes to 100% and the command does nothing. I
have to
TERM it to stop, and no files have been created.
sudo -u steamuser ./steam -command update -game hl2mp -dir .
This works fine.
Is the steam binary too stupid to install anywhere but the local
directory? If so, why offer the -dir argument?
So, I guess if I want multiple servers installed, I need multiple
directories each with their own steam binary? That's the impression
that I am getting.
I'm a noob at Steam servers/HLDS, so maybe this is just common
knowledge, but googling didn't find me anything on the subject, and
I've read multiple how-tos that mentioned using a specified "-dir
./whatever".
It's noteworthy that I did install some game servers in a "-dir tf2"
recently, so I know it's not completely broken, it wasn't in
previous
steam binary versions.
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