Server unable to start after newest update

[Dantalion]

After the newest update my server starts fine in vanilla but with metamod it just crashes. I use the latest version of the official metamod.

Console initialized.
Using breakpad crash handler
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 225840
Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit
Protocol version 48
Engine version 5.0.1.4 (svencoop)
Engine build: 20:01:17 Jan  7 2020 (8475)
STEAM Auth Server
Initializing IP networking
Local IP address: 127.0.1.1, SV port: 27015, CL port: -1
Steam P2P networking disabled.

   Metamod version 1.20  Copyright (c) 2001-2013 Will Day <[e-mail]>
   Metamod comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `meta gpl'.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
   under certain conditions; type `meta gpl' for details.

Missing shutdown function for Sys_InitAuthentication() : Sys_ShutdownAuthenticat                                                                                                                                                             ion()
Missing shutdown function for Host_Init() : Host_Shutdown()
Missing shutdown function for Sys_InitLauncherInterface() : Sys_ShutdownLauncher                                                                                                                                                             Interface()
Missing shutdown function for Sys_InitMemory() : Sys_ShutdownMemory()
Missing shutdown function for Sys_Init() : Sys_Shutdown()
Missing shutdown function for FileSystem_Init(basedir, (void *)filesystemFactory                                                                                                                                                             ) : FileSystem_Shutdown()
Missing shutdown function for Sys_InitArgv( m_OrigCmd ) : Sys_ShutdownArgv()
Uh oh it seems the server has crashed (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Support available on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/svencoop
Add "-debug" to the ./svends_run command line to generate a debug.log to help wi                                                                                                                                                             th solving this problem
Fri Jan 17 17:52:30 CET 2020: Server restart in 10 seconds 

OS: Ubuntu 18.04

[Dantalion]

After trying newest Metamod-P it also crashes with the following error:

 
Console initialized.
Using breakpad crash handler
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 225840
Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit
Protocol version 48
Engine version 5.0.1.4 (svencoop)
Engine build: 20:01:17 Jan  7 2020 (8475)
STEAM Auth Server
Initializing IP networking
Local IP address: 127.0.1.1, SV port: 27015, CL port: -1
Steam P2P networking disabled.

   Metamod version 1.21p38 Copyright (c) 2001-2013 Will Day
     Patch: Metamod-P (mm-p) v38 Copyright (c) 2004-2018 Jussi Kivilinna
   Metamod comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `meta gpl'.
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
   under certain conditions; type `meta gpl' for details.

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Game DLL version mismatch
DLL version is 140, engine version is 140
The game DLL for svencoop appears to be outdated, check for updates
==================
Host_Error:

FATAL ERROR (shutting down): Host_Error:


Uh oh it seems the server has crashed (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Support available on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/svencoop
Add "-debug" to the ./svends_run command line to generate a debug.log to help with solving this problem
Fri Jan 17 18:08:40 CET 2020: Server restart in 10 seconds

[Adambean]

Add "-debug" to the ./svends_run command line to generate a debug.log to help with solving this problem

Please try that. It may show something very useful.

[Dantalion]

No debug.log file is being generated for me inside of the Sven Co-op folder after executing ./svends_run -debug.

This is the first time I am experiencing such problems.

Correct user and groups are set, also read/write permissions.

I also tried to validate the installation with SteamCMD and app_update validate.

Even a fresh reinstall did not help.

[Dantalion]

So I just now went back at it and tried again.
I turned on debugging for metamod and got this

L 17/01/2020 - 21:27:02: [META] (debug:5) Unable to stat '/home/steam/Steam/steamapps/common/Sven/svencoop/metagame.ini': No such file or directory.

This part was confusing because according to the metamod-p docs metagame.ini is deprecated.

I then found in the docs that you can specify a gamedll in the metamod/config.ini file that can be created for metamod. I remembered that earlier it tried to find the hl.so. I inserted the path to server.so (gamedll dlls/server.so) of sven coop and now it works with metamod-P.

I hope this might help anybody running into the same problem.

[Adambean]

I did suspect it was a 3rd party plug-in issue, but didn't want to shoot the thread down so quickly for that. ;)
Glad to see you found an answer anyway.