General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[lavacano]

If you have a ClientRegistry.blob file, delete it.

Check ~/Steam or whatever the new directory is (~/.local/share/Steam I think)

[vlad]

[QUOTE=lavacano;40599367]If you have a ClientRegistry.blob file, delete it.

Check ~/Steam or whatever the new directory is (~/.local/share/Steam I think)[/QUOTE]

Aaand, fixed.

Thanks!

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=PredGD;40599340]Tried to install Steam on my laptop today, which is obviously on linux.

One error, google search, alright need jockey-common.
Downloaded jockey-common, woohoo, steam installed.
However, when steam starts it says:

FATAL ERROR: Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again.

I have internet, what to do?[/QUOTE]

Did you try multiple times? Sometimes steam just fails to make a connection.

[editline]11th May 2013[/editline]

2slow

[vlad]

Another newbie question!

I'm trying to update my nvidia drivers. Find driver. download .run file, open terminal, chmod +x nivida.run, sudo ./nvidia.run

Then this happens.

 ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before            
         installing.  For further details, please see the section INSTALLING   
         THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver         
         download page at www.nvidia.com.

[stringy]

[QUOTE=PredGD;40599441]Another newbie question!

I'm trying to update my nvidia drivers. Find driver. download .run file, open terminal, chmod +x nivida.run, sudo ./nvidia.run

Then this happens.

 ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before            
         installing.  For further details, please see the section INSTALLING   
         THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver         
         download page at www.nvidia.com.

[/QUOTE]

Sounds like you need to kill the X server then...

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=lavacano;40599309]Yeah, like five minutes before making that post. I checked bin and tf/bin afterward, not there.[/QUOTE]

Do you have any other source games that aren't Left 4 Dead? They should have a filesystem_steam.so file.

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;40599559]Sounds like you need to kill the X server then...[/QUOTE]

How would I do that? sudo init 3, sudo killall /usr/bin/X, sudo service gdm stop? None of those have worked for me.

[danharibo]

If you're running a distro like Linux Mint or Ubuntu you can install the latest drivers by doing:

        sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
        sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

rather than using the nvidia installer.

[vlad]

apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 125, in <module>
    ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 80, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
    curl.perform()
pycurl.error: (60, 'server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none')

[editline]11th May 2013[/editline]

I've done the sudo -i command, so it's running with sudo access.

[editline]11th May 2013[/editline]

Whoops, forgot a letter when I did it the second time (pasted above). Still doesn't work when using the correct line though.

[stringy]

[QUOTE=PredGD;40599634]

apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 125, in <module>
    ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 80, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
    curl.perform()
pycurl.error: (60, 'server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none')

[editline]11th May 2013[/editline]

I've done the sudo -i command, so it's running with sudo access.

[editline]11th May 2013[/editline]

Whoops, forgot a letter when I did it the second time (pasted above). Still doesn't work when using the correct line though.[/QUOTE]

You probably have corrupted or otherwise invalid certs (I don't actually use Ubuntu often enough to understand what this means)
Try to refresh them:

sudo apt-get --reinstall ca-certificates
sudo update-ca-certificates

and if this doesn't work, and you understand that this may or may not cause additional problems, try this:

rm -rf /usr/share/ca-certificates

and [i]then[/i] retry the other two commands above.

[editline]10th May 2013[/editline]

([URL="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2010993"]source[/URL])

[vlad]

Thanks for the help Rayjingstorm, but it won't be neccesary after all. While waiting for a reply, I managed to fix it myself.

CTRL+ALT+F1
sudo -i
enter password
service lighdm stop
cd /home/name/Downloads
chmod +x nvidia.run
./nvidia.run
install some shit here and there, bam, new drivers!

[d10sfan]

Trying the svn gmod, and get this error (Linux Mint 13):

Failed to load the launcher [bin/launcher.so] (libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=d10sfan;40601973]Trying the svn gmod, and get this error (Linux Mint 13):

Failed to load the launcher [bin/launcher.so] (libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)[/QUOTE]

Run it with '-steam'.

[d10sfan]

[QUOTE=Jookia;40601994]Run it with '-steam'.[/QUOTE]

What's the command you're using to run gmod?

Thanks

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=d10sfan;40602007]What's the command you're using to run gmod?

Thanks[/QUOTE]

./hl2.sh -game garrysmod -steam

You also need to chmod hl2_linux and hl2.sh to be executable, (I think Steam may work around this, I don't know)

[d10sfan]

Ok just tried that, got the same:

~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/sourcemods/gmod $ ./hl2.sh -game garrysmod -steam
Failed to load the launcher [bin/launcher.so] (libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

[Jookia]

Copy TF2's libSDL2-2.0.so.0 to the bin folder.

[Van-man]

So is TF2 the only game needed (and launched atleast once) in order to try out (loose term) the gmod SVN?

[d10sfan]

Ok getting closer now. I copied the filesystem_steam.so file from CSS, copied awesomium around, and copied portal's hl2 directory into gmod.

Now I'm getting a segmentation fault:

./hl2.sh: line 67: 8611 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"

[vlad]

How do you people launch gmod? I've come as far as downloading the svn and moving it to ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/sourcemods. Should it show up in steam or something? I don't really get it.

[d10sfan]

[QUOTE=PredGD;40605216]How do you people launch gmod? I've come as far as downloading the svn and moving it to ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/sourcemods. Should it show up in steam or something? I don't really get it.[/QUOTE]

I've been launching it via command line. Basically go into your steam directory, then SteamApps/sourcemods/gmod. You may need to set permissions on some of the files

Then execute this:

./hl2.sh -game garrysmod -steam

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=d10sfan;40605212]Ok getting closer now. I copied the filesystem_steam.so file from CSS, copied awesomium around, and copied portal's hl2 directory into gmod.

Now I'm getting a segmentation fault:

./hl2.sh: line 67: 8611 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"[/QUOTE]

Pop open gmod's hl2.sh in a paintext editor and check what there is on line 67 from the top-down

[d10sfan]

[QUOTE=Van-man;40605334]Pop open gmod's hl2.sh in a paintext editor and check what there is on line 67 from the top-down[/QUOTE]

Line 67 down is:

done
exit $STATUS

[vlad]

[QUOTE=d10sfan;40605333]I've been launching it via command line. Basically go into your steam directory, then SteamApps/sourcemods/gmod. You may need to set permissions on some of the files

Then execute this:

./hl2.sh -game garrysmod -steam[/QUOTE]

I never figured out how to enter the .local folder without the terminal. How do I open it with the file browser?

[d10sfan]

[QUOTE=PredGD;40605504]I never figured out how to enter the .local folder without the terminal. How do I open it with the file browser?[/QUOTE]

It depends on what file maanger you're using, there should be a Go, Location you can use

[ipha]

You need to show hidden files. Should be in the menu somewhere.

[vlad]

[QUOTE=IpHa;40605532]You need to show hidden files. Should be in the menu somewhere.[/QUOTE]

It's already set to view hidden. No idea why it doesn't show me .local.

Using the Go function worked, though!

[editline]11th May 2013[/editline]

./hl2.sh -game garrysmod -steam
bash: ./hl2.sh: Permission denied

When using sudo,

sudo ./hl2.sh -game garrysmod -steam
[sudo] password for me: 
sudo: ./hl2.sh: command not found

When trying to edit hl2.sh's permissions, everything grayed out since I apparently don't have access.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=PredGD;40605564]When trying to edit hl2.sh's permissions, everything grayed out since I apparently don't have access.[/QUOTE]

Open your favorite file manager as root

[nikomo]

Check file permissions with ls -la, check if your user correctly owns the file, if not, use sudo chown, and check that it's executable, chmod +x, and check that the other executable files are executable too.

Try executing with sudo with a specific path and not just ./hl2.sh

[stringy]

I really want a modified version of ls which uses a special error message when you try using the -hal flags when you don't have permission to read the folder, something like

I can't let you see that, $USER.