Started crashing on Linux

[obi]

Except for the time attack crash I mentioned in another thread the game worked fine. Today when I wanted to run it I got the following error:

Failed to load installscript ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/Eversion/installscript.vdf
Game update: AppID 33680 "Eversion ", ProcID 30824, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 33680
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198039999416 [API loaded no]
Available Modes
  1920 x 1080
  1680 x 1050
  1600 x 900
  1440 x 900
  1400 x 1050
  1280 x 1024
  1280 x 960
  1280 x 768
  1280 x 720
  1152 x 864
  1024 x 768
  1024 x 600
  800 x 600
  800 x 480
  640 x 480
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:270:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
embedded: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [i386-linux]

The library it's looking for is in /usr/lib/alsa-lib/ rather than /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/ but the error persists even if I make a symlink.

Works fine if I run it outside of steam.

[flibitijibibo]

Try adding this to the ./Eversion script, somewhere before it actually executes the game binary:

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

[obi]

Thanks for the input but I already know about this workaround, and it's not ideal, since my soundcard isn't capable of hardware mixing. It works to some extent, but the sound is distorted and it only works if no other program is using the soundcard, else it keeps crashing.

The main problem is that is used to work just fine with pulseaudio and it stopped working with one of the recent updates (looking at steamdb.info it seems Eversion didn't get changed at all, so it must be a Steam problem).

[flibitijibibo]

Ah, fair enough.

If you happen to have build tools, you can build Audiere for that particular setup:

https://github.com/flibitijibibo/Audiere

Just undo this commit here:

https://github.com/flibitijibibo/Audiere/commit/c1e405a7cdb303bdd7522cb5dc9e6e260637bb0e

And it should give you better audio via PortAudio rather than ALSA.

[obi]

I was just about to try out your suggestion when I remembered that the last time I made the symlink it was to the 64bit libraries.

Now I just did a

ln -s /usr/lib32 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

since it searches for them in that directory. Game works ok now (with sound through pulseaudio).

[flibitijibibo]

Weird, I just got this with Beat Hazard, but only when running via Steam. I'm wondering if the search for i386-linux-gnu/ is the result of the Steam runtime, as we don't have this on Fedora either (Eversion and its libs were built on this distro, so that original ALSA failure came as a surprise).

Edit: Sure enough, Eversion doesn't always work for me on Steam either. And I ported the dang thing!

We need to file this with Valve, as it's a Steam bug.

Edit 2: Ah, found your report, nevermind. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1730

[obi]

Ah good thing you reminded me about the report, I just updated it to include my workaround.

Ah, didn't know you did the porting. Thank you for the port.

Edit: According to the feedback I got: "This will be fixed in the runtime for the next update.".