psclient: Exits immediately, no error message?!

[Thurisaz]

Heya,

I left a comment referring to this problem on another thread in this particular forum already, but I\'m not sure whether it has received the proper attention (I know that from myself... once you got your firm impression of a thread, sometimes you don\'t realize if something that might point in a different direction is mentioned *g* ), so... this one:

I\'ve installed the psclient and updater according to the corresponding thread in this forum (well, before the latest upgrade that is... I didn\'t try it after that so far) and found that launching the psclient immediately returns me to the shell prompt. I get no error message whatsoever, /var/log/messages also reveals nothing of help, I just get the impression that the program finishes its task at once (yeah right, as if I wouldn\'t know it\'s supposed to do a _little_ bit more than that *g* ). Due to that I\'m currently forced to play PS on LoseXP which sucks royally *shudder*.

I\'m running SuSE 9.2 with all the latest patches and KDE 3.3.

Any ideas?

[Wired_Crawler]

Hmm... I\'m sure, that if anybody had an idea, You would receive some response (and You could bump the other thread by editing Your last post).
It is hard to believe, that there is really no output at all, there must be some trace somewhere...
The first advice now would be: update to latest version, there is no point in supporting older version, because it will not work any longer. Tell us, how the version 0.3.013 behaves.

Regards.

[Thurisaz]

Agreed 100 % - it sounds weird. But still, there\'s no error message, no nothing. It exactly looks like:

(path)> ./psclient
(path>

And nothing else. And yes, I get back to the shell prompt immediately. Not even half a second of delay.

[Wired_Crawler]

Hehe, I\'ll stick to this thread, \'cause I don\'t know, if kaikilian has exactly the same problem (and I\'ll skip commenting your  \"BUMP\" ).
Are you talking about newest version this time ?
Maybe this is related to security features of Suse 9.2 ?
Maybe dmesg shows something interesting  (grsecurity/pax/rsbac/selinux messages) ? I\'m not sure what security mechanisms are active in Suse.
Check, if there isn\'t really any process started (using command \"ps\" ). I repeat - there must be some sort of trace...
Try running binary file directly (psclient.bin, or psc in case of current version)
Aha!
Is there something inside file \"psclient\" ? Maybe installer left it empty (try \"cat psclient\" ) ?
Also try running \"sh -x ./psclient\", it will print every line before executing it.

[Thurisaz]

Actually, I didn\'t have opportunity yet to update to .13 on SuSE. I\'ll do so (hopefully) this evening and let you know if that changed anything. And I\'ll try out your tips.

(EDIT)

Okay, now things get interesting.

While I don\'t know what might be of interest to you in the dmesg output, here\'s some things for you to contemplate:

psc doesn\'t exist although I just ran the updater without any error.
sh -x et cetera returned \"cannot execute binary file\" (?!!!)
./psclient.bin returned \"Bus-Zugriffsfehler\" (in English: Bus access error\")

cat psclient shows the file to be not empty.

Maybe I should mail you the dmesg output? To where?

P. S. I should add that it didn\'t matter whether I ran it all under KDE or windowmaker.

(EDIT 2)

Okay, deleted everything except the arts folder and started over again. The game itself now comes up fine... only that my char is everything I see, the world around me is dark. Wait, I saw one other char gliding by, without any movement.

I\'ll have to keep working on that obviously.

(EDIT 3)

OK, with \"-fullbright\" it works, at least using the windowmaker. Seems like under KDE the artsd won\'t let the client run. Oh well, I can live with that, at least for a while

And did I... wait, I didn\'t!... so let me say that it runs much less laggy under linux, compared with my XP install! *eg*