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It’s that time of the month for steam, apparently. Semaphores, SteamGetEncryptionKeyToSendToNewClient and other stupidness.
I mean, it happens like once a month, right…? Steam explodes and we have to sit here waiting to start our game server while they piddle-pat around fixing it. Haven’t they heard of a QA process?! Well anyway, when you run an update, you get something like this error below. Updating Installation removing stale semaphore [...]
Counter-Strike: Source BETA for Linux HOWTO (cssbeta)
nice -n -6 ./srcds_run -autoupdate -game cstrike_beta -tickrate 100 +ip 174.142.18.83 +port 27019 +maxplayers 21 +fps_max 250 +map de_dust2 +servercfgfile server.cfg +sv_log server_log.logUsing breakpad minidump system Using breakpad crash handler Warning: falling back to auto detection of vproject directory. Unable to find gameinfo.txt. Solutions: 1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir 2. Run vconfig to specify which game you’re [...]
Valve broke source again. Don’t update!! (appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me” error)
So, valve broke Counter-Strike: Source again in their last update. (Sigh!) Don’t update your server or it will stop booting. They’re working on a fix now, but it could be a day. Bad Valve, BAD! appdatacache.cpp (311) : Assertion Failed: !”Implement me” Here’s some news from their mailing list: Is this failing to contact steam [...]
Are your source servers not VAC secure all the sudden? It’s Steam’s fault.
If you’re playing happily on your server and it all the sudden starts complaining about your connection to steam servers being down, don’t panic… it happens to everyone. Steam has decided to do their regular past-time of sucking and caused their VAC servers to go down. When this happens, everyone’s server is unable to connect [...]
HLDS for Linux – Steam Outage!
Over the last 48 hours, Steam had some issues with their updating. Every time one of our hlds game servers would start, it would check for updates from steam and end up with a strange error like this: >>Incorrect price blob version! Update your server! It looks like its fixed now, but during the outage, [...]
Small Team Fortress 2 Update Released
A new required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available! Here’s the details as announced by steam: Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include: Engine If the installation is an HLTV relay we allow clients to connect [...]
Source Server Update Released
Updates to the Source 2007 Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:Source 2007 Engine Fixed an exploit that allowed files to be uploaded to the server at arbitrary locations in the file system Fixed a server crash caused by a client packet [...]
Don’t reboot your source server! The latest Steam patch breaks everything.
The latest source update has broken linux servers and a fix is incoming from steam ASAP: http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/12083 If this turns into an extended outage we’ll apply a work around! dangit steam! Updating server using Steam. Checking bootstrapper version … Updating Installation Checking/Installing ‘Counter-Strike Source Shared Content’ version 72 Checking/Installing ‘Base Source Shared Models’ version 4 [...]