Linux version on Steam does not work any more

[bluescarni]

Hello,

 

PoE was working fine until yesterday on my linux installation, but today it refuses to work. When I click "Play", simply nothing happens. I also tried to launch the game manually from the command line, to no avail.

 

The console displays messages like this when I launch the game:

 

Game update: AppID 291650 "Pillars of Eternity", ProcID 11656, IP 0.0.0.0:0

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/yardbird/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/yardbird/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Found path: /home/yardbird/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity

Mono path[0] = '/home/yardbird/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Managed'

Mono path[1] = '/home/yardbird/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono'

Mono config path = '/home/yardbird/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono/etc'

Game removed: AppID 291650 "Pillars of Eternity", ProcID 11656

 

I haven't changed a single thing on my setup since at least a week (e.g., no package updates). I am not sure if steam updated itself today before I tried launching the game, nor I am sure whether PoE received an update today.

 

Some things I have tried:

 

- sign into the beta program, same effect,

- disabling the steam runtime, again no difference,

- enabling/disabling the steam overlay, no effect,

- verify integrity of local cache, no effect.

 

Does anyone have a hint of what is going on? Anything I should try short of just reinstalling the game from scratch?

 

Cheers!

[bluescarni]

Ok, it might be that something was wrong with steam.

 

Despite closing and restarting it multiple times, it seems upon further investigation that the process of another game had gone zombie a few hours ago. After dropping the kill -9 on that process, I can start PoE again.

 

I will close the topic tomorrow if the problem is really solved. Sorry for the noise!

[Cantousent]

No worries, blue. Keep us posted.

[Arthur]

Hi all,

 

I guess a have the same/similar problem: PoE has been working fine, until today, 04/16. I can start PoE and reach the main menu, but as soon as I try to continue or start a new game, PoE exits immediately. Console output after such a sudden exit:

 

ExecSteamURL: "steam://rungameid/291650"
Game update: AppID 291650 "Pillars of Eternity", ProcID 4614, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Found path: /home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity
Mono path[0] = '/home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono/etc'
Game removed: AppID 291650 "Pillars of Eternity", ProcID 4615
 

I first encountered this issue after having downloaded patch 1.4; but I noticed those gameoverlayrenderer.so-files mentioned in the console output do have a pretty recent timestamp (04/08 & 04/14), so maybe the problem is related to them being updated by Steam. Couldn't tell if this error is just a warning, though, since I usually disable console output on starting Steam. I'm running 64-Bit-Gentoo and wouldn't know of any relevant recent updates on my system (certainly not since yesterday):

 

528847  232 -rwxr-xr-x   1 arthur     users      236603 Apr 14 01:44 /home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so
513193  236 -rwxr-xr-x   1 arthur     users      239855 Apr  8 22:09 /home/arthur/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so

 

Thanks & kind regards!

[Arthur]

Hi bluescarni,

 

does PoE run again on your system? It doesn’t on mine. I’ve taken a look into the »Player.log«-file and get the impression, a segfault in »libmono.so« (or something, I’m using a different computer right now) may be the cause, rather than those previously mentionend gameoverlayrenderer-files. @obsidian: Would it be helpful if I posted my Player.log-file?

Kind regards!

 

[Arthur]

Hi all,

 

it’s solved! A (Steam-)»VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE« did the trick (it did find a problem and re-downloaded something) – the adventure can continue!
 

Arthur