FTL Doesn't start - Linux Ubuntu

[Zef]

So i made a 100 gb partition for ubuntu last night, installed everything wanted to check out how much had changed since i last used kubuntu as a kid and how steam / linux games were doing/running.

Not so good i am afraid..

Cave story + doesn't start because steam does not download the .exe with it and FTL refuses to start no matter what i do.

[Gooster]

I'm having the same problem. It actually logs me out of my ubuntu user every time I try to run the game.

[damn_pastor]

Try running steam from the terminal and you will see some useful info.

[Gooster]

Originally posted by damn_pastor:

Try running steam from the terminal and you will see some useful info.

I can't see what it says because it logs me out immediately after running FTL.

[InsecureDecapod]

I have the same problem with Xubuntu 12.10. Any Solution?

[OzFalcon]

Make sure your desktop res is 1280 wide.

[mario bald]

I have the same problem but have not yet found a way to fix it.
I think the fastest way to solve this is to check the Ubuntu forums/create a new thread.
(or just any Linux related forums)

[buttbutt]

Originally posted by Gooster:

Originally posted by damn_pastor:

Try running steam from the terminal and you will see some useful info.

I can't see what it says because it logs me out immediately after running FTL.

Sounds like your X-Server is crashing. Try to check dmesg

 dmesg | tail 

for example.

Also check the Xorg.log:

 cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | less 

[zaf_]

Hi,
I used to run FTL fine on my ubunt 13.04 (that had been upgraded from ubuntu 12.10). It would crash everyonce in a while but I could still play it.
I have just done a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 and now I'm having the same problem as people in this thread : The FTL Loading page appears and when it finishes to load, I'm treated to a black screen and then the ubuntu Login screen.

Has anyone made progress with this ? I'll try to post the requested output but I just thought I'd bumpt this first.

[zaf_]

Okay, so I found a solution that works for me.
It turns out that the open source "nouveau" driver for nvidia cards was the problem. So I installed the nvidia-current package.
Be warned though, it did kind of screw up Unity and I had to use the compizconfig-settings-manager to reactivate the unity plugins. I also had to reboot because it had trouble finding openGL.

Hope this helps.

[gtrachuk]

it's wan't start because There are spaces in the directory.

[Luksurious]

I went to the official game forum and found the problem and solution.
Removing the file
~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/FTL Faster Than Light/data/<architecture>/lib/libstdc++.so.6
worked for me.

ChadJoan wrote:
The Steam release of FTL on Linux packages a bunch of library files in "~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/FTL Faster Than Light/data/<arch>/lib" and then dynamically links against them when running. This causes problems because the libstdc++.so.6 file provided with FTL is an older version than is required by my graphics drivers. In my case, this causes X to crash and bump me to my KDE login screen. That's very distruptive, because it can lose data held by other programs running in that X session at the time. It also prevents FTL from running at all.

This is a known issue on some Linux distributions. Just remove the libstdc++.so.6 file shipped with FTL, this should solve it for you.

Source: http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15193

[Fu!Bär]

Thanks Luxurious, deliting the libstdc++.so.6 worked!

[baizon]

Indeed, thank you. Working now :)
Path of the libstdc++.so+6 is: "~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/FTL Faster Than Light/data/<arch>/lib"

[CrimsonFlame]

I cannot figure out this. I have my steam running on PlayonLinux and I do not have a Data folder. I have a data.dat in my resources file but that is about it