[Linux Steam] Can't run the game

[koteko]

For the second time after I haven't played for a while, I can't run the game via Steam on Linux Mint 17.2 (essentially Ubuntu 14.04).

 

Last time I fixed it by deleting the game content and reinstalling, but it's huge so I'd like to avoid it. 

 

By running it from the terminal, nothing happens:

$ ./PillarsOfEternity
Set current directory to /home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity
Found path: /home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity
Mono path[0] = '/home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono/etc'

Also, all the shared libraries are correctly linked:

$ ldd PillarsOfEternity
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffab705000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1f0a3da000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1f0a1bc000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1f09fb3000)
	libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1 (0x00007f1f09d45000)
	libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia-346/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f1f099ed000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f1f096b7000)
	libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00007f1f094ad000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1f091a9000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1f08ea2000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1f08c8c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1f088c7000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1f0a60b000)
	libnvidia-tls.so.346.87 => /usr/lib/nvidia-346/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.346.87 (0x00007f1f086c3000)
	libnvidia-glcore.so.346.87 => /usr/lib/nvidia-346/libnvidia-glcore.so.346.87 (0x00007f1f059e5000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f1f057d3000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f1f055b3000)
	libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f1f053a9000)
	libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007f1f051a3000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f1f04f9e000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f1f04d98000)

Any clues?

[Aarik D]

Hello Koteko,

 

Did you verify your game cache in steam to see if that fixes your issue?

 

Cheers!

[koteko]

Yes, I tried to no avail.

[koteko]

I'm not able to restart it even after deleting the game content and re-installing.

 

Would really appreciate some help - I have finished the main game but I've just started White March.

[Boeroer]

I played the game with 14.10 and 15.04 and never had such issues. Maybe it's a problem that only occurs with lower versions of ubuntu. What's your graphics driver?

[Boeroer]

Ah... I see: 346. I also had that. So that's not it.

[koteko]

It's Linux Mint 17.2, underneath there's an Ubuntu 14.04. I find it hard to believe nobody has 14.04: it's a Long Term Support.

 

Any advice on anything I could to do investigate this? I've tried running it in gdb but no signal was caught, it seemed to just.. terminate:

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity PillarsOfEternity
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Found path: /home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity
Mono path[0] = '/home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/fabio/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Pillars of Eternity/PillarsOfEternity_Data/Mono/etc'
[New Thread 0x7ffff7fdc700 (LWP 7349)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff16e9700 (LWP 7350)]
[Thread 0x7ffff16e9700 (LWP 7350) exited]
[Thread 0x7ffff7fdc700 (LWP 7349) exited]
[Inferior 1 (process 7348) exited normally]
(gdb)

The binary md5 is:

73f739ec7fb1b105a7e67ff07e50c8d1  PillarsOfEternity

I guess it should be the same as yours (and any Linux users) unless mine's corrupted..