I would happily donate $150 USD now, and then donate $20 USD per month on an automatic basis, if it would allow the PlaneShift team to purchase decent server hosting.  If there are enough others that have gainful employment and would be interested in voluntarily contributing some similar amounts, I don't see why they should ignore this as a possibile course of action for the future of the server.

I have spoken to several others already who would be willing to put forth money each month for a reliable PlaneShift server.  Please consider this as a possibility.  Free is not always the best choice.

If enough people were willing to donate, there would end up being be a substantial safety buffer in the bank, to handle any unforseen costs.  The PlaneShift server running from its current Singapore host is out for weeks each year and the techs there don't even service servers on weekends.  It seems that relying on donations would be substantially more reliable than relying on the current hosting setup.

Originally posted by lanser
Just a thought but did you replace psclient.bin and pssetup.bin after updating? cause the updater may have dl\'ed the old versions

Before and after running the updater, the psclient.bin would seg fault.  All 0.3.012 clients seg fault for me (R2, R3 and R4.  Debian and generic releases).  I don\'t know how to track down why they are crashing.

I have spent the past few hours trying to get PlaneShift running, without luck.  I downloaded the approximately 260 MiB \"PlaneShift_CBV0.3.011.linux.x86-2.run\" file from http://www.planeshift.it/download.html and installed it.  It popped up the GUI fine, but informed me that I needed a newer version to use on this server.

So I found the IRC channel and they passed me on to this forum to download the 0.3.012-R2 and -R4 update/patches, which I did.  After installing R2 and then R4, I ran the ./updater, and had no issues.  It updated around 100 MiB of files or so, without any noticeable errors.

I then tried to run the new ./psclient and it seg faulted almost immediately.  Same with ./pssetup, though ./updater continued to work fine.  Checking an strace of the pssetup.bin, the only things I notice of possible interest are:

* It opens \"data/config/engine.cfg\" just before it crashes
* It tries to open a non-existant \"data/config/glext.cfg\" file a little while before the crash
* It looks for the file \"/config/mouse.cfg\" (in the root directory of the system) and of course does not find it

Past that, nothing of interest shows up that I can see.

I tried using gdb to get a backtrace, but it is almost entirely (??) items, so I assume the client was not compiled with debug symbols.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

More about my system ...

Kernel & Hardware:

Linux 2.6.15.2 (custom compiled)
1.25 GiB PC3200 DDR SDRAM @ 333Mhz
4.01 GiB Swap
0.51 TiB Storage (DeviceMapper Encrypted ReiserFS)
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, 1805Mhz, 256KB Cache, 3613 BMIPs
Geforce FX5700LE 128MB DDR SDRAM AGP 8x

Distro:

Arch Linux 0.7.1 (Noodle)

GNU Tools:

GLIBC 2.3.5
GCC 4.0.3 2005_12_22 (Prerelease)
CoreUtils 5.2.1
Bash 3.00.16(1)-Release

X11:

Xorg 6.8.2
nVIDIA binary driver version 1.0_8178
1280x1024x32bit display