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Non-functional lobby under Linux Mint 15 64bit

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10 years ago
Welcome,

(This post mail is also available on http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/147405/how-to-run-zero-k-under-linux where you can see the attached picture)

I followed the howto on http://zero-k.info/Wiki/Download on my Linux Mint 15 64 bit Cinnamon.

After logging-in here and there opening the Lobby with mono Zero-K.exe and pressing the big button Play Now on "http://zero-k.info/Missions/Detail/156", I believe after waiting for the map download, the game should somehow start. What happens, is that after pressing the button, the focus switches to the lobby client, and something invisible is happening on the bottom of its window:

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/147405/how-to-run-zero-k-under-linux

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10 years ago
strange, maybe you can run it from terminal and there is some error output?

Alternative you could use springlobby for Linux ( http://springlobby.info/landing/index.php )
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10 years ago
Yes, there is an exception in the command line. I can't post it here, because of the apparent forum error (something along the lines A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (...). It seems, the forum doesn't like Zero-K.exe error dumps. Who does?)

So I've updated the question on SA: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/147405/how-to-run-zero-k-under-linux
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10 years ago
Ad alternative lobby:

I'm afraid installing the alternative spring lobby from that address wouldn't be that easy. It depends on the current spring engine, which is incompatible with the Zero-K. But I hope I'll success in compiling it from source.

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10 years ago
Dunno about the error.
In springlobby u just need to set the game path and for libunitsync.so.
You don't need to compile it, there is a static linux build for spring 91.0

http://springrts.com/dl/buildbot/default/master/91.0/linux64/
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10 years ago
I find that forum error occurs when you have a "/" in your post. I don't know why, it is quite annoying. You can use pastebin.com for logs. Just upload it on pastebin and link that here.
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quote:

TASC error System.ApplicationException: Error while processing command BATTLEOPENEDEX 9068 0 0 PepeAmpere[NOTA] 78.128.166.122 8452 32 1 0 4115539768 spring 94.1 notAdotaMap 0.6 hunger_games OTE r0001: Value is too large ---> System.OverflowException: Value is too large
at System.Int32.Parse (System.String s) [0x00000] in filename unknown:0
at LobbyClient.TasClient.DispatchServerCommandOnGuiThread (System.String command, System.String[] args) [0x00000] in filename unknown:0


This is closely related to bug
http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/issues/detail?id=1899

Those bugs have been reported a long time ago but never fixed. I'm not sure it is related to the problem of not starting, but it needs to be fixed.

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find that forum error occurs when you have a "/" in your post. I don't know why, it is quite annoying.


No, the forum bug preventing us from posting logs is because of the "filename unknown" stanza looking like an HTML/XML tag (less than, greater than), and improper/insecure parsing in the forum code... to which a dumb layer of "reject anything suspicious" to prevent some types of exploitation was added. That's something else that would need to be fixed, because yes, it is annoying (and it fails at preventing exploitation anyway).
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