I need some good help

[hunter]

OK,

First, let me introduce myself. My name is hunter. I am 14. I really love this site, because it got my very first dedicated server going. It seems like a nice, small community, with a forum that is always alive.

So my problem is this:

I currently have an old computer (P2) that I haven't used for some years now. My dad brought it back to life downstairs in the garage, andused it as a firewall, then a server, etc. SO eventually, he go ta new computer that could do as a server, and he chucked that one into the dephs of the garage. I went down and pestered him for an old computer that could host my dedicated source server. I already had one at the time, but I didnt want to have to be on the machine that hosted the server to play cs:s (my main AMD 64 bit machine). It was laggy as hell, and the whole nine yards. So he gave me that old p2 and said, "Sorry dude, but that's all I have." He also said that there were a few problems.....
A: It didn't have a freaking hard drive
B: It had literally been gutted, but it still had its ram... (396 or something)
C: It was a 333MHz processor k6 series. (1998)

So I took the machine, and got a hard drive, and my dad helped me iinstall debian kernal 2.2.... I know that's not reccomended, but that's all I have right now ! So to make a long story short, I downloaded the files for the dedicated server. went through the whole process of installing a dedicated server on linux, and now it is telling me that it cant find the steam binary and that it ignores it, and that it will restart in 10 seconds, then rants on and on about how it can't find it, and it will restart, and I CANT GET IT TO STOP!!!!!! So please, someone help me, I beg of you. I am sorta new to linux, although my dad is a linux freak. I use putty to ssh into the box because it has no keyboard.... .

-thanks

[Sprinter]

Paste here all the srcds start messages you see in the linux console.

[hunter]

Sprinter Wrote:Paste here all the srcds start messages you see in the linux console.

i cant, it wont let me right click or whatever, what is the command to copy and paste???

[theansaname]

putty you just highlight the text and it will copy

[jamesm]

Sounds like you need to get your -dir command right on the steam update.

Code:

./steam -command update -game "Counter-Strike Source" -dir ./path/to/install/ -username yourusername -password yourpass -remember_password

It is complaining because it needs a steam update but can't find the steam binary, update manually using the above command.

[hunter]

theansaname Wrote:putty you just highlight the text and it will copy

FREAKING 'A!!!!!!! >_< OMFG I swear this is stupid!! I updated it and everything, and it still says :

hunter@hunter:~/hlds$ ./srcds_run -console -game cstrike +map de_dust +maxplayers 16 -autoupdate
Auto detecting CPU
Using default binary.
Auto-restarting the server on crash
Could not locate steam binary:./steam, ignoring.
Thu Jan 20 17:46:25 PST 2005: Server restart in 10 seconds

[circle69]

Same problem that alot of us are facing. Not sure how to fix it yet. So far I have been telling people to log a ticket at the steampowered.com site so that valve may find the problem (not holding breath). The more people who tell them about this problem the better chance that they will help out. Hell I offered them root access on my server.

Sean

[hunter]

What the hell are you talking about? The same problem everyone else is facing? Find some people that have the same problem as me, and then I'll believe you.... As for telling Valve about the problem; what teh hell is wrong with you? Do you realize that Valve doesn't give a shit? Look at source! It has only one skin per team, and the first real update gave us bots..... wweee. yay. .. . . .. . Yea, we need bots that all look the same and yet we still dont have any of the REAL problems fixed, liek the bad net code, the horiible hitboxes, the lack of skins, the infinite amount of glitches, etc., etc.

[theansaname]

what does yours look like?

boing @boing ~/srcds_l $ cat css-start
#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting Server"
sleep 1
screen -A -m -d -S css-server /..../..../srcds_l/srcds_run -console -game cstrike -secure -debug -port 27015 +map de_dust +maxplayers 20 -autoupdate -pidfile srcds.pid

boing @boing ~/srcds_l $ ls
InstallRecord.blob cstrike sandbox srcds_i686
bin hl2 srcds_amd srcds_run
css-start hldsupdatetool.bin srcds_i486 steam

boing @boing ~/srcds_l $ cd
boing @redbarn ~ $ ls -la
total 89
drwx------ 13 boing boing 624 Jan 20 21:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 boing boing 168 Jan 9 20:56 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 boing boing 88 Jan 20 18:22 .steam
drwxr-xr-x 6 boing boing 408 Jan 20 03:40 srcds_l

and did you do the update?

[circle69]

Wow hunter you are sounding pretty hostile there. I said and I quote "Same problem that alot of us are facing. Not sure how to fix it yet." not everyone. Some people are running their servers just fine. If you read other posts here there are 2 other people with the same problems you have (like me). If you goto Counter-Server Community Forum there are people there with the same problems. I agree that valve is not supporting their software like they should but what software company does? In time someone with much better linux knowledge than me will fix the problem, I hope.

Regards
S

[cryotek]

hunter Wrote:Could not locate steam binary:./steam, ignoring.
Thu Jan 20 17:46:25 PST 2005: Server restart in 10 seconds

This indicates you do not have your steam binary in the same directory as srcds_run. My guess is when you ran ./steam to update it, you used -dir srcd_l or perhaps you deleted it after you updated, I don't know, but if you don't have the steam updater in the same dir as srcds_run, -autoupdate switch will not work.

[hunter]

Thanks dude! But my dad came upstairs and helped me. Huess what he said? It was hilarious because I had fucked up my bash and it wouldn't let me type in anything if I minimized the putty screen, so he says,"Well you know what the beauty of Debian is?" "You can screw it all up and just restart!" LOL It's true, I just made a new account and installed the stuff again! Thanks.


ALERT!!! IT STILL GETS THE ERROR!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGG

cstrike@hunter:~/srcds_1$ ./srcds_run -console -game cstrike +map de_dust2 +maxplayers 8 +ip 192.168.0.1
Auto detecting CPU
Using default binary.
Auto-restarting the server on crash
Fri Jan 21 13:49:05 PST 2005: Server Quit


OMFG!!!!!

[cryotek]

well, with any distro, if you screw up your bash profile you can just create a new account, userdel then useradd, etc. anyways, what version of glibc are you running?

Code:

ldd --version

also, ask your dad if you're running NPTL(Native Posix Thread Library) or Linuxthreads
or nptl with linuxthreads fallback, or nptlonly.

Edit: also, is your kernel is 2.2? if so, that maybe your main problem. you should seriously upgrade to 2.6.9 or 2.6.10 at least.
Keeping 2.2 could leave you vulernable security wise.

[hunter]

cryotek Wrote:well, with any distro, if you screw up your bash profile you can just create a new account, userdel then useradd, etc. anyways, what version of glibc are you running?

Code:

ldd --version

also, ask your dad if you're running NPTL(Native Posix Thread Library) or Linuxthreads
or nptl with linuxthreads fallback, or nptlonly.

Edit: also, is your kernel is 2.2? if so, that maybe your main problem. you should seriously upgrade to 2.6.9 or 2.6.10 at least.
Keeping 2.2 could leave you vulernable security wise.

well right now me dads at work.... I did have a windows server, but it was eating up my system resources. Hmmm I think ill ask my dad when he gets home at 5 pacific time, for now, I guess ill play some cs:s.

If at first you don't succeed, then play some cs and then come back when you feel like it.

[cryotek]

ssh into the linux box and paste in here what

Code:

uname -r

prints out