Is the steam runtime as buggy for servers as it is for clients? Never had
it work out the box for me, praise the AUR
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, 00:41 Rowedahelicon,
wrote:
> Do you have a rough day in mind this week? I'm worried about the winter
> storm taking down my power this week and need to know if I have to make
> accommodations
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Weasels Lair
> wrote:
>
> Yep, sorry got that posted before trying disabling SMAC. Disabled SMAC
> and it worked better!
> Will try Ryan's "smac_validate_auth 0"
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Ryan Stecker
> wrote:
>
> smac_validate_auth 0
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Weasels Lair
> wrote:
>
> PS: More specifically, on a non-BETA TF2 client, trying to connect to the
> current BETA TF2 server, the client connects, seems to work for a few
> seconds, then throws a dialog with the error:
>
> "Disconnected" (Title)
> "Disconnected: Your client has failed to authorized in time.
> Please reconnect or restart your game."
>
> Restarting the game does not help. Playing on non-BETA TF2 servers seems
> to work fine.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Weasels Lair
> wrote:
>
> Lately I have not been able to successfully connect from a plain
> (non-Beta) TF2 client to my BETA TF2 server. Has that functionality been
> broken by a non-beta TF2 client update?
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 3:36 PM, John Schoenick
> wrote:
>
> There have been no significant changes after the few fixes mentioned here
> on Day 1 (namely, removing libstdc++ from the install)
>
> On 03/13/2017 02:58 PM, A Fearts wrote:
>
> Hey John quick question. Have there been any changes to the toolchainbeta
> since you first posted it that we might need to recheck stuff or it is all
> the same?
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:47 PM, John Schoenick
> wrote:
>
> Reminder, we plan on releasing a normal update with this change this
> week. Server operators are encouraged to double-check that their setup
> works against the toolchainbeta branch to avoid ugly surprises!
>
> - John
>
> On 02/20/2017 02:46 PM, John Schoenick wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Following up on the warning email we sent a long while back, we're making
> good on our promise and changing our build toolchains for the TF2+SDK2013
> games' dedicated server. TF2 is being updated first, with the other
> SDK2013 games to follow.
>
> There are two things that may affect server administrators that you should
> be aware of:
>
>
> *The Linux dedicated server now targets the Steam Runtime*
>
> The Steam Runtime is a common runtime target based on Ubuntu. For srcds,
> this largely means linking against a more recent glibc than may be
> available in some server distributions. Administrators should check that
> the provided beta still runs in their environment of choice. Those who are
> on older or incompatible distributions have several options:
>
> - Switch to a distribution more compatible with the Steam Runtime, such as
> Ubuntu LTS
>
> - Make use of a chroot/container/VM environment to run srcds. The tools
> linked below include a script for creating a chroot that can be used for
> bootstrapping Steam Runtime environments.
>
> - Use the Steam Runtime tools linked below combined with some dynamic
> linker magic to use the runtime libraries on an incompatible distribution,
> e.g.:
>
> steamrt=/path/to/runtime
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="bin:$steamrt/usr/lib32"
> LD="$steamrt/usr/lib32/ld-linux.so.2"
> "$LD" ./srcds_linux "$@"
>
> More information about the Steam Runtime and utilities for obtaining it
> can be found here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime
>
>
> *The compiler toolchain used for all editions of srcds has changed*
>
> Along with the client builds, all server builds have been updated to a
> newer compiler. Windows builds now use the MSVC2015 tools, while Linux
> builds now use a newer edition of GCC with differing command-line
> parameters that affect codegen.
>
> This is expected to break mods that expect certain ABI behaviors or look
> for certain signatures in order to hook functions (such as SourceMod). We
> have separately spoken with the SourceMod team and they are working on
> supporting the new setup. Maintainers of other mods should test them
> against the beta release below.
>
> Our previous warning also indicated that this would change the _srv naming
> of the linux binaries. We have decided *not* to adjust this, and the
> separate _srv build and naming remains unchanged.
>
>
> *Beta*
>
> We've made a beta branch available for TF2 with these new changes. The
> remaining SDK2013 games will be updated in the near future, and we will
> provide a beta for them at that time.
>
> The beta is compatible with the current TF2 public release - servers may
> safely convert to it and continue serving both beta and non-beta clients.
>
> The beta branch is titled "toolchainbeta" with no required password. It
> can be accessed with SteamCMD via:
>
> app_update 232250 -beta toolchainbe
