[Linux] Segfault instantly on startup, before menus

YokoZar

Game update: AppID 4920 "Natural Selection 2", ProcID 2641, IP 0.0.0.0:0

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:2535): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 4920
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561197963867398 [API loaded no]
Segmentation fault
Game removed: AppID 4920 "Natural Selection 2", ProcID 2642

That was the terminal output from doing steam --applaunch 4920

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring 64-bit, Intel graphics. I'm an Ubuntu developer so I'm willing to dig a little deeper if you can tell me where to look

Confused

Are you running the mesa drivers?

ns2 does not run on mesa.

You need opengl 3.1 running. It looks like some versions of mesa are 3.1 but cannot compile shaders as tehy only support glsl 1.4.

YokoZar

glxinfo says:

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

YokoZar

Since this is a detectable predictable error, why not spawn some sort of message rather than mysteriously crashing?

Confused

I think the number of users who were gaming on mesa has been significantly higher than anticipated. That said, I would guess that there will be a better log message added. Ns2 for linux is still very much a work in progress. I guess it is also worth noting that that output is from steam and that the ns2 log is typically found in ~/.config/Natural Selection 2/log.txt. It generally will say something like "could not initialize the render device".

edit: There really should only be one u in Natural.