Cannot run under Fedora Linux (19)

[thetargos]

Can anyone else using Fedora or another similar OS (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora Rawhide) confirm this, please? From within steam the games doesn't launch, when launching from a terminal window, I get a dependency error:

error while loading shared libraries: libcurl-gnutls.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I obviously go out and try to find it, and stumble into a brickwall that apparently only Debian and its kin use this, apparently, and obviously is not available for Fedora Linux... What's a bit disturbing is that I can't run ldd on the witcher2 binary, as apparently it is statically linked, but it complaints about this dependency???:

ldd witcher2
            not a dynamic executable

./witcher2
./witcher2: /lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by ./witcher2)

This after I symlinked /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 as libcurl-gnutls.so.4...

I'm like... WTF??

Any other fedorians out there have tried this game and if successfull did you stubmle into this and how did you solve this?

TIA!

[instabilis]

eisberg님이 먼저 게시:

In theory, true, in reality not so much.

Actually you'll find it's very much true

[WolfEisberg]

instabilis님이 먼저 게시:

eisberg님이 먼저 게시:

In theory, true, in reality not so much.

Actually you'll find it's very much true

Not in my experience, and in the experience of my collegues in our IT department. /shrug

[thetargos]

This is about the only one game I've had this much trouble... Try to get even half the games I have running under Wine in *buntu distros... I never could (not even compiling wine from source had I been successful in *buntu), YMMV... Of my 40+ steam collection, this is the only one that segfaults, platform you say? buggy binary says I!

[Prydzen ᛋᛟ]

eisberg님이 먼저 게시:

instabilis님이 먼저 게시:

Actually you'll find it's very much true

Not in my experience, and in the experience of my collegues in our IT department. /shrug

i run gentoo no problem. Stop trolling.

[WolfEisberg]

ChrisPlaysLinux님이 먼저 게시:

eisberg님이 먼저 게시:

Not in my experience, and in the experience of my collegues in our IT department. /shrug

i run gentoo no problem. Stop trolling.

ah, the good ole "You disagree with me, you must be a troll" tactic -.-
Clearly you do not understand programming, configurations, and myriad of other things. There is a reason why so many linux software only officially support certain distros of Linux, but I highly doubt you can understand the reason why. Anybody who has true understanding of Operating systems, programming, ect will understand why.

Next time try to use the word "Troll" properly, not everyone who disagrees with you is trolling.

[thetargos]

The issue is still the same, nonetheless... What symbols does this binary wrapper use that despite having all its dependencies satisfied (and apparent symbols), segfaults on different distributions... If I had to point fingers, I'd be quick to point to glibc discrepancies and most likely the way a pointer is being wrongly handled in the newer version found on Fedora... Alas, I've not run a strace through gdb of the binary to even try to debug, nor am I interested in doing so, as the many other games I own (both native and alien) simply run...

Plus teh whole thing about libraries in Linux is also a moot point, as there are many ways you can get away and support any possible distribution (given a "minimum" set of system and software stack requirements), sure it does involve careful coding (and building... especially linking ) and certainly proper[/b] debugging, which is obvious wasn't the case here...

[stevew]

Fedora 19, nvidia-331.67, with today's patch installed:
./witcher2: /lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by ./witcher2)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Been procrastinating updating to Fedora 20, but will do so if that fixes this.

[wh1sper_123]

this starting problem should probably be labeled as FIXED since its cause is prelinking in Fedora

https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues/2

[instabilis]

wh1sper_123님이 먼저 게시:

this starting problem should probably be labeled as FIXED since its cause is prelinking in Fedora

https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues/2

Cheers, at least it runs now.

[stevew]

Running prelink -ua and then removing prelink gets me farther; now it brings up the crash reporter almost immediately. :-/

[higuita]

IF the prelink problem is not the cause, open a new bug in github, so people can help you debuging. Also grave a strace , check the issue2 to see how you can grab a strace to see where it is crashing

[wh1sper_123]

instabilis님이 먼저 게시:

wh1sper_123님이 먼저 게시:

this starting problem should probably be labeled as FIXED since its cause is prelinking in Fedora

https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues/2

Cheers, at least it runs now.

runs like a champ for me at 720p on 9800GT with nvidia blob. though window manager varies. and oss drivers were complete bust on my test machine 6450 was running 2-3fps

did a little testing with wine apps since this and witcher is more or less the same effect with larger gap since it scales and now i can kinda say how they rate. the only one i didn't install was kde. also, when game doesn't use real full screen gaps are way larger

e17 (disable compositing, enable 3d, disable sync)
metacity-openbox just slight fragment slower
gnome (10% slower)
rest wm (30-40% slower)

[matachi]

I was able to launch it just fine on Fedora 20 64-bit with Gnome Shell. However, I uninstalled the game just a few moments ago because of its poor performance.

[higuita]

ok, try again a few months later, most of this problems should be fixed :)

[thetargos]

I'm testing all posted workarounds and see how it goes.