Linux Dedicated Servers

[Sushiloid]

Will the game have support for private linux dedicated server hosting? If so is there a published guide or documentation on how to do so?

[Dynamoon]

Hi! Here's a detailed post about hosting servers: https://steamcommunity.com/app/602960/discussions/0/1653297026039038242/ – hope this answers your question! :) Your OS shouldn't make a difference in hosting.

[Blt950]

Originally posted by 1dynamoon:

Hi! Here's a detailed post about hosting servers: https://steamcommunity.com/app/602960/discussions/0/1653297026039038242/ – hope this answers your question! :) Your OS shouldn't make a difference in hosting.

The guide seems to only cover Windows by clicking the dedicated server which is an exe. I've the same question, and I wonder if Barotrauma has a Linux binary that can natively be used, if not I suppose you need to use mono-library?

In case of mono, do I just copy the dedicated.exe and serversettings.xml, or are there other dependencies? I did not find these questions answered anywhere :) Thanks!

[Regalis]

The process is essentially the same on Linux, there's a shell script called "DedicatedServer" inside the game folder that launches the server when executed.

[Blt950]

Originally posted by Regalis:

The process is essentially the same on Linux, there's a shell script called "DedicatedServer" inside the game folder that launches the server when executed.

Thanks for quick reply, but where do I find this shell script? I don't seem to find it on my (client) installation on Windows, and SteamCMD did not find gameid 602960.

I only have DedicatedServer.exe and DedicatedServer.pdb. Worth mentioning when I say Linux I mean a command-line only Linux version where I can't download Steam client to get these files, if they're under the Linux-client game version.

[Blt950]

I found out. This should be informed a lot clearer in your guides: You need to login on SteamCMD. Most games don't require this step, hence the confusion :)

[Skavver]

Hello, when I went to try to run the Dedicated Server shell on my machine I get a "initializing steam server failed" message. What should I do to get around this?

[Regalis]

Originally posted by Scavver:

Hello, when I went to try to run the Dedicated Server shell on my machine I get a "initializing steam server failed" message. What should I do to get around this?

Are you logged into Steam?

[Matamanthemaster]

I'm having the same issue.

On ubuntu 18.04 LTS, using steamcmd.

I was able to install barotrauma through steamcmd once authenticated. Running DedicatedServer started up a server, with a lot of messages all reading:
Can't find custom attr constructor image:

/home/steamcmd/Steam/Games/barotrauma/NLog.dll mtoken: 0x0a0003fa due to: Could not load file or assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.

Once this has spammed the whole terminal, the server begins with the following output:

Selected sub: Dugong                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Selected shuttle: Bunyip                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Starting the server...                                                                                                                                                                                                                        dlopen failed trying to load:                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Initializing Steam server failed.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Server started                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
2019-06-15 22:08:59.6732|WARN|GameAnalyticsSDK.Net.Logging.GALogger|Warning/GameAnalytics: Could not add design event: Datastore not initialized                                                                                              2019-06-15 22:08:59.7006|WARN|GameAnalyticsSDK.Net.Logging.GALogger|Warning/GameAnalytics: Could not add design event: Datastore not initialized
2019-06-15 22:08:59.7030|WARN|GameAnalyticsSDK.Net.Logging.GALogger|Warning/GameAnalytics: Could not add design event: Datastore not initializedbly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' overboselogging                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Enabled verbose logging.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Refreshing server info on the server list failed.                                                                                                                                                                                             
HandleOwnership (<Redacted>)                                                                                                                                                                                                         REQUEST_STEAMAUTH                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Received a Steam auth request                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Steam ID: 76561198064911984                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Auth ticket length: 234                                                                                                                                                                                                                    o  Auth ticket data: 14000000CF59E...                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Disconnected unauthenticated client (Steam ID: 76561198064911984). Steam authentication failed.                                                                                                                                               Refreshing server info on the server list failed.

When trying to connect through the domain name, I get steam authentication failed, with the above detail when verbose logging is enabled. This happens both when steamcmd is closed and when I have steamcmd logged in on a separate screen instance.

[Yanny]

I'm not sure that's the best way, but it worked for me: create a symlink to your steamclient.so in the lib64 folder.

In my example:
- user is baro
- homedir /home/baro
- steam in /home/back/Steam
- gamefiles in /home/baro/serverfiles

This fixed it for me:

ln -s /home/baro/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so /home/baro/serverfiles/lib64/steamclient.so

[MORTY MORT]

Originally posted by Yanny:

I'm not sure that's the best way, but it worked for me: create a symlink to your steamclient.so in the lib64 folder.

In my example:
- user is baro
- homedir /home/baro
- steam in /home/back/Steam
- gamefiles in /home/baro/serverfiles

This fixed it for me:

ln -s /home/baro/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so /home/baro/serverfiles/lib64/steamclient.so

Thank. But for me work full file copy ("cp").

[Yanny]

no problem.

I've submitted a PR for LGSM support, that'll make things much easier once tested and merged: https://github.com/GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM/pull/2396

[Matamanthemaster]

Originally posted by Yanny:

I'm not sure that's the best way, but it worked for me: create a symlink to your steamclient.so in the lib64 folder.

In my example:
- user is baro
- homedir /home/baro
- steam in /home/back/Steam
- gamefiles in /home/baro/serverfiles

This fixed it for me:

ln -s /home/baro/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so /home/baro/serverfiles/lib64/steamclient.so

Thank you kind stranger. steamclient.so being in lib64 in the Barotrauma game files allowed the game to handle steam auth requests from clients.

Originally posted by MORTY MORT:

Thank. But for me work full file copy ("cp").

You should use symbolic link (ln -s (also known as soft link)) in cases where you need the same file in two places as it is a direct pointer to the file. If the file being linked to is updated so will the link because it is only pointing to it. It also uses less space.

[Yanny]

Note that after some testing, campaign mode doesn't seem to work under linux. Seems somewhat related to https://github.com/Regalis11/Barotrauma/issues/1564, so keep an eye out.

[gotta fast go]

Originally posted by Yanny:

I'm not sure that's the best way, but it worked for me: create a symlink to your steamclient.so in the lib64 folder.

In my example:
- user is baro
- homedir /home/baro
- steam in /home/back/Steam
- gamefiles in /home/baro/serverfiles

This fixed it for me:

ln -s /home/baro/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so /home/baro/serverfiles/lib64/steamclient.so

5 HOURS OF TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT AND THIS FINALLY WORKED, THANK YOU.
Though it really didn't help that I'm doing this inside a docker container.

[Silias]

When i run ./DedicatedServer > server.log

i will get this:

Can't find custom attr constructor image: /home/steam/barotrauma/NLog.dll mtoken: 0x0a0003fa due to: Could not load file or assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
Selected sub: Berilia
Selected shuttle: Bunyip
Starting the server...
Using Lidgren networking
Initializing Steam server failed.
Server started
2019-09-03 13:56:48.8583|WARN|GameAnalyticsSDK.Net.Logging.GALogger|Warning/GameAnalytics: Could not add design event: Datastore not initialized
2019-09-03 13:56:48.8825|WARN|GameAnalyticsSDK.Net.Logging.GALogger|Warning/GameAnalytics: Could not add design event: Datastore not initialized
2019-09-03 13:56:48.8825|WARN|GameAnalyticsSDK.Net.Logging.GALogger|Warning/GameAnalytics: Could not add design event: Datastore not initialized





***edit also with this:
~/barotrauma/lib64$ ls -la
total 280
drwxrwxr-x 2 steam steam 4096 Sep 3 14:11 .
drwxrwxr-x 12 steam steam 4096 Sep 3 14:05 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 steam steam 274328 Sep 3 14:04 libMonoPosixHelper.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 steam steam 62 Sep 3 14:11 steamclient.so -> /home/steam/.steam/steam/steam/steamcmd/linux64/steamclient.so