Closed The Linux startup crash thread

Hello folks.

I haven't yet come across a thread for the linux version and it's issues, so I decided to start one. Please try to keep this thread clean, so that hopefully the devs can make use of it.

Currently, about an hour after launch, the game will not start. Now, it is in Beta so it is expected to fail, but I'd expect it to at least run.

I am running on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia', an Ubuntu derivative which is (mostly) stock. The only non-standard packages are things like the nvidia-drivers and several codecs for ffmpeg.

So far I've found that launching the game from steam simply doesn't work.
This seems to be because the game cannot find a library called libGLEW.so.1.7 in the system path.

My version of mint indeed does not have this library, but it does have a libGLEW.so.1.8 available in /usr/lib/x86_42-linux-gnu/
making a symlink for libGLEW.so.1.7 in /usr/lib/x86_42-linux-gnu/ solves this crash.

With the library issue out of the way, we run into the next crash. This time the issue seems to be that a fie from the assets directory cannot be read or interpreted.

Output of command:

bas@HexaMinty /mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64 $ ./launch_starbound.sh

gives the following in starbound.log:

Info: Preparing Star::Root...
Info: Creating default Star::Configuration
Info: Done preparing Star::Root.
Info: Client version 'Beta v. Perturbed Koala' '615' '418'
Info: Starting from the title screen
Info: Initialized SDL
Info: Initialized SDL Video
Info: Initialized SDL Joystick
Info: Initialized SDL Sound
Info: Opened default audio device with 44khz / 16 bit stereo audio, 1024 sample size buffer
Error: Could not load /cinematics/splash.cinematic asset, attempting to use default.
AssetException: Could not read variant asset /cinematics/splash.cinematic
./starbound(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC1ERKSsRKSt9exception+0x126) [0xc029a6]
./starbound() [0x6aa405]
./starbound() [0x6aa474]
./starbound() [0x6a29ca]
./starbound() [0x6a2e7f]
./starbound() [0x6aa893]
./starbound() [0x6ab835]
./starbound() [0x6ae4ab]
./starbound() [0x6aeb9b]
./starbound() [0x53d9a9]
./starbound() [0x53e3da]
./starbound(_ZN4Star19StarApplicationBase3runEv+0x2c) [0x54c68c]
./starbound() [0x533d6a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f11e067eea5]
./starbound() [0x538aad]

caused by: AssetException: No such asset '/cinematics/splash.cinematic'
./starbound(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC2ERKSs+0xfe) [0xc0221e]
./starbound() [0x6af7f1]
./starbound() [0x6a3ba3]
./starbound() [0x6a3c42]
./starbound() [0x6aa316]
./starbound() [0x6aa474]
./starbound() [0x6a29ca]
./starbound() [0x6a2e7f]
./starbound() [0x6aa893]
./starbound() [0x6ab835]
./starbound() [0x6ae4ab]
./starbound() [0x6aeb9b]
./starbound() [0x53d9a9]
./starbound() [0x53e3da]
./starbound(_ZN4Star19StarApplicationBase3runEv+0x2c) [0x54c68c]
./starbound() [0x533d6a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f11e067eea5]
./starbound() [0x538aad]

Info: Shutting down Star::Root
Error: Fatal Exception Caught: VariantException: Variant type not map for get("panels"), is of type null
./starbound(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC2ERKSs+0xfe) [0xc0221e]
./starbound() [0xac7011]
./starbound(_ZNK4Star7Variant3getERKNS_6StringE+0xa0) [0xbe4a60]
./starbound(_ZNK4Star7Variant4pgetINS_4ListIS0_St5dequeIS0_SaIS0_EEEEEET_RKNS_6StringE+0x29) [0xbee029]
./starbound(_ZNK4Star7Variant7getListERKNS_6StringE+0x11) [0xbe7251]
./starbound() [0x56e73e]
./starbound() [0x53d9b9]
./starbound() [0x53e3da]
./starbound(_ZN4Star19StarApplicationBase3runEv+0x2c) [0x54c68c]
./starbound() [0x533d6a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f11e067eea5]
./starbound() [0x538aad]

The requested asset is available in the assets directory and readable.
I even chmod'ed everything to 777 to make sure it is not a permission issue.

running it through gdb doesn't really add much more info, but for completeness' sake I will include it here:

bas@HexaMinty /mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64 $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="." gdb starbound
GNU gdb (GD 7.5.91.20130417-cvs-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Info: Creating Star::Root with 1 assets sources and config file: './starbound.config'
Info: Loading Star::Assets from: '../assets'
[New Thread 0x7fffee127700 (LWP 18141)]
Info: Preparing Star::Root...
[New Thread 0x7fffed926700 (LWP 18142)]
[New Thread 0x7fffed125700 (LWP 18143)]
Info: Creating default Star::Configuration
Info: Done preparing Star::Root.
Info: Client version 'Beta v. Perturbed Koala' '615' '418'
Info: Starting from the title screen
Info: Initialized SDL
Info: Initialized SDL Video
Info: Initialized SDL Joystick
[New Thread 0x7fffe7c26700 (LWP 18144)]
[Thread 0x7fffe7c26700 (LWP 18144) exited]
Info: Initialized SDL Sound
[New Thread 0x7fffe7c26700 (LWP 18145)]
Info: Opened default audio device with 44khz / 16 bit stereo audio, 1024 sample size buffer
Error: Could not load /cinematics/splash.cinematic asset, attempting to use default.
AssetException: Could not read variant asset /cinematics/splash.cinematic
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC1ERKSsRKSt9exception+0x126) [0xc029a6]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aa405]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aa474]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6a29ca]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6a2e7f]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aa893]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6ab835]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6ae4ab]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aeb9b]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x53d9a9]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x53e3da]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZN4Star19StarApplicationBase3runEv+0x2c) [0x54c68c]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x533d6a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7ffff4a9eea5]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x538aad]

caused by: AssetException: No such asset '/cinematics/splash.cinematic'
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC2ERKSs+0xfe) [0xc0221e]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6af7f1]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6a3ba3]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6a3c42]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aa316]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aa474]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6a29ca]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6a2e7f]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aa893]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6ab835]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6ae4ab]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x6aeb9b]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x53d9a9]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x53e3da]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZN4Star19StarApplicationBase3runEv+0x2c) [0x54c68c]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x533d6a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7ffff4a9eea5]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x538aad]

[Thread 0x7fffe7c26700 (LWP 18145) exited]
Info: Shutting down Star::Root
[Thread 0x7fffee127700 (LWP 18141) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffed926700 (LWP 18142) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffed125700 (LWP 18143) exited]
Error: Fatal Exception Caught: VariantException: Variant type not map for get("panels"), is of type null
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZN4Star13StarExceptionC2ERKSs+0xfe) [0xc0221e]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0xac7011]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZNK4Star7Variant3getERKNS_6StringE+0xa0) [0xbe4a60]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZNK4Star7Variant4pgetINS_4ListIS0_St5dequeIS0_SaIS0_EEEEEET_RKNS_6StringE+0x29) [0xbee029]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZNK4Star7Variant7getListERKNS_6StringE+0x11) [0xbe7251]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x56e73e]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x53d9b9]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x53e3da]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound(_ZN4Star19StarApplicationBase3runEv+0x2c) [0x54c68c]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x533d6a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7ffff4a9eea5]
/mnt/games/SteamLinuxLibrary/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/starbound() [0x538aad]


[Inferior 1 (process 18137) exited with code 01]

 

So far I'm having absolutely no issues with Linux Mint 15.0 or 16.0, both appear to be running well.

 

Hello,

I have Ubuntu 13.04 and I'm having some issues as well.
I have run a few things through cmd:

*in my Starbound directory
- ./launch_starbound.sh
./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

-./starbound
./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I haven't found any ways to deal with the issues here. As we can see, the second issue I'm having is similar to the first problem that Nisengo had run into.

Help would be nice.

 

I'm having the same issue as danieltos above.
I'm on Arch Linux x64
Nvidia GTX 560

./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have directfb installed, but it's the newest version which is 1.7. My distro doesn't have any older versions available that I can see. The libraries associated with this are libdirectfb.so libdirectfb-1.7.so.1 libdirectfb-1.7.so.1.0.0.

 

After the update, I have the same issues as the two above:
./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Before the update I had no issues with launching the game.

 

Got the same issue here, got exactly the same log as Nisengo. No issues with libdirectfb-1.2

Running on Ubuntu 13.10, 32 bits.

Edit: just heard on IRC that there is a bug on linux reading subdirectories

 

Code:

score@kirisame ..eam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64 % LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD ldd ./starbound | grep 'not found'
   libdirectfb-1.2.so.9 => not found
   libfusion-1.2.so.9 => not found
   libdirect-1.2.so.9 => not found
   libts-0.0.so.0 => not found

Installed libdirectfb, but it was version 1.7 so not compatible. I can't find libfusion, and "direct" and "ts" are far too general to search for in my package manager.
I'm on Arch Linux, 64 bit.

I could run the 32 bit version after installing these:

Code:

sudo pacman -S lib32-sdl lib32-libpng lib32-libpng12

64 bit version is completely broken though.

 

That would be because the launcher shell script does a little library magic to make it load in the libGLEW.so.1.7 that is shipped with the game.

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD ./starbound
[edit] Yeah I did miss the slash that should be in there. My apologies.[/edit]

should give you the same result as running the shell launcher itself. Then there's the matter of getting libdirectfb to work.
You could try to make a symlink in wherever your version of libdirectfb is to the exact version the game is looking for.
Note that if your installed version is older, this may not work at all.

 

Should be

(forgot the slash)

 

Thanks for your post Score_Under. I didn't even trying running the 32 bit version. It works like a charm. Something is clearly just broken with the 64 bit version.

 

Hey. I've managed to get rid of the error about missing library - getting one about missing assets afterward. It seems that the Linux version of the game has got path variables set incorrectly (feel free to correct me here). I went to the root directory of Starbound installation (apparently libGLEW version 1.7 is right there) and and used the one-liner of LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/linux64:$PWD ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ; ./linux64/starbound -- which results in errors like this:

Error: Could not load /cinematics/splash.cinematic asset, attempting to use default.
AssetException: Could not read variant asset /cinematics/splash.cinematic

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.3, 64-bit.
Any word from the devs, perhaps?

---
Oh, yeah - seems that there are no libraries for the 32-bit version on my 64-bit Ubuntu setup - 32-bit executable is there, but no libraries accompany it. I get an error about libGLU.so.1 if I try running that.

Hopefully this gets sorted out.

 

I believe that is what the original post was about. I have the same issue.
As far as I could understand from a reply on IRC is that the devs are working on this issue (when they're not exhausted and sleeping). Appearantly there is a bug in linux with reading subdirectories. And since the splash.cinematic is in a subdirectory of the assets directory I think this is what happens. Guess we'll have to wait for the next patch.

 

I am using Arch Linux x86_64. The following symlinks allows me to start ./starbound, NOT ./launch_starbound.sh

drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 1 205 directfb-1.7-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 5 10:55 libdirect-1.2.so.9 -> /usr/lib/libdirect-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 1 205 libdirect-1.7.so.1 -> libdirect-1.7.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152232 Nov 1 205 libdirect-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 5 102 libdirectfb-1.2.so.9 -> /usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 1 205 libdirectfb-1.7.so.1 -> libdirectfb-1.7.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1297096 Nov 1 205 libdirectfb-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 1 205 libdirectfb.so -> libdirectfb-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 1 205 libdirect.so -> libdirect-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 5 10:51 libfusion-1.2.so.9 -> /usr/lib/libfusion-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 1 205 libfusion-1.7.so.1 -> libfusion-1.7.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64512 Nov 1 205 libfusion-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 1 205 libfusion.so -> libfusion-1.7.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 9 223 libGLEW.so -> libGLEW.so.1.10.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 9 223 libGLEW.so.1.10 -> libGLEW.so.1.10.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 554064 Aug 9 223 libGLEW.so.1.10.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 79 Dec 5 11:08 libGLEW.so.1.7 -> /home/user/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/libGLEW.so.1.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 78 Dec 5 11:08 libpng12.so.0 -> /home/user/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/linux64/libpng12.so.0

I was able to create a character and teleport down to the planet and open a chest. Haven't tested further and won't do anymore (I play on Win32 anyway).

Starting ./launch_starbound with above symlinks gives the me libts-0.0.so.0 is missing error, which is needed by libSDL-1.2.so.0 (I even have that installed but it didn't come with libts)

 

I am running starbound on Arch Linx x86_64. Created the same symlinks as you zhade but got stuck on the libts-0.0.so.0 error.

Tried starting via the ./starbound executable instead of via steam. Seems to be running ok now. Thanks for sharing

 

Yes, creating symlinks works for me as well.

 

I am not running starbound on Arch Linux x86_64 but It's working in86.

In x86_46 : ./launcher_starbound.sh

./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

./starbound

./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


In arch linux x86_64, I found libGLEW.so but in libGLEW.so.1.10

 

simple fix, I removed libSDL-1.2.so.0 (don't forget to backup) and it's working fine on Archlinux 3.12.1-3 64bit. via pacman I have sdl 1.2.15-5 installed.

I played the game right from the start, I had to install libpng12 only. Thereafter the devs pushed a fix with some libs embedded, so thats causing the issues for some.

 

for 64-bit you can modify launch_starbound.sh to (or use in the command line):

Code:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:./ ./starbound

that will give preference to the libSDL provided by the OS (rather than the included version with seems to require libts)

 

Thank you

These commands (a combination of yours and zhade's observations) got it working for me:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/libdirect-1.7.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.7.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libfusion-1.7.so.1.0.0 .
mv libdirect-1.{7.so.1.0.0,2.so.9}
mv libdirectfb-1.{7.so.1.0.0,2.so.9}
mv libfusion-1.{7.so.1.0.0,2.so.9}
mv {,_}libSDL-1.2.so.0

 

Ubuntu 13.04 (32-bit)
new crash log after update
http://pastebin.com/k1ebwQjZ