[Bug] Game won't launch on Linux/Debian - SOLVED

[Alex]

Hi, I bought the game a few days ago on Steam but it didn't launch. Today was an update but sadly it doesn't change anything.
If I launch the game in Steam a small window opens but closes immediately.
I already tried reinstalling it and below are some outputs with different approaches and system informations.

I would appreciate if you could help, give some directions or ideas how I can solve this issue or narrow down the problem.

Thanks, Alex

OS: Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64, Debian 4.8.4-1
Grafic Card: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] (rev a2)
Driver: nvidia 340.96-1

Launching from command line in the game folder with "start_linux.command" or "java -jar Balrum.jar":

Code:

Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 424250
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198272228650 [API loaded no]

Launching from command line in the game folder with "Balrum":

Code:

Loading JVM runtime library ...
Passing VM options ...
Creating Java VM ...
Passing command line arguments ...
Loading JAR file ...
Invoking static gamedir.Balrum.main() function ...
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 424250
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198272228650 [API loaded no]
Destroyed Java VM ...

debug.txt:

Code:

Separator:/
UserDIR:/home/alex/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Balrum
64bit Linux
Java: 1.7.0_79
Base: 2.9.3

[yariel]

...
try to install :
1. Java (reinstall for Linux)
2. OpenAL
3. DirectX SDK
4. vcredist
5. .Net Framework
Update your graphic driver too ...

also try to fix your Steam connection ...

[Matthew Cline]

I'm unable to get it to run on Linux (Fedora 23) from the Steam GUI, but have no problem launching it directly from the command line.

[copycat]

what is the output of the commandline if u start steam via commandline and try to start balrum from steam?

[yariel]

(03-18-2016 01:40 PM)Matthew Cline Wrote:  I'm unable to get it to run on Linux (Fedora 23) from the Steam GUI, but have no problem launching it directly from the command line.

...
is this game DOS orientation ?

[Alex]

Thank you for your answers and suggestions. Sadly the problem remains.
Maybe someone knows a log or a debug function I missed.
This game sounds like fun but I guess I'll have to try a refund if it doesn't even tells me where the problem lies.

@ copycat: the output is the same as executing "Balrum" in the game folder

@ yariel: Most libraries come with the game, even Java from what I can see. Also, I've got another Java Steam game which runs fine.

[yariel]

...
http://steamcommunity.com/app/424250/dis...630375135/
Tough I don't know more if this can't help you ...

[copycat]

Code:

Thank you for sending us your debug file!
Separator:/
UserDIR:/home/phil/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Balrum
64bit Linux
Java: 1.8.0_74
Base: 2.9.3
Reported screen refresh rate: 60
OpenGL context: 3.0
3.0 Mesa 11.1.2
Reported screen refresh rate: 60
AL created.
XML AIO cache built.
Goodbye!

hey thats my debug.txt

i tested around to see if i get other outputs as but the only difference is yet my java version - i have openjdk 1.8 installed and it s used to launch the game. even those the balrum game comes iwth it s own java version...

do u have java installed? else i have no clue there also no commandline output that helps, in other games i expirienced always something like lib.wahtever is missing or so but here donno.

[Alex]

(03-22-2016 03:43 AM)copycat Wrote:  do u have java installed?

Yes: 1.7.0_95 (instead of included 1.7.0_79) but it doesn't make a difference.

Now I can see an error message in debug.txt that I didn't saw before (maybe because of an update):

Code:

Thank you for sending us your debug file!
Separator:/
UserDIR:/home/alex/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Balrum
64bit Linux
Java: 1.7.0_79
Base: 2.9.3
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at gamedir.RenderDispatch.getUsableFullscreenModes(RenderDispatch.java:1786)
    at gamedir.RenderDispatch.init(RenderDispatch.java:60)
    at gamedir.Init_GL_Modern.kepernyoinit(Init_GL_Modern.java:217)
    at boot.Boot.boot(Boot.java:80)
    at gamedir.Balrum.main(Balrum.java:299)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.getAvailableDisplayModes(LinuxDisplay.java:951)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.init(LinuxDisplay.java:738)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:138)
    ... 5 more

Seems to be a display/fullscreen issue. I changed fullscreen setting in config.xml but it didn't made a difference. Any ideas?

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With this error message I was able to solve it. Fix for me was to install x11-xserver-utils:

Code:

sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils

I'm glad that it works now and can't wait to look into it. Thanks for all your replies.

[copycat]

nice im glad it works now, error messages make different hehe, have fun playing