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Kybber
PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:28 pm    Post subject: BUG: Trackmania Forever in Linux. GC changes " to _ ? Reply with quote
I just experienced that GC failed to start TMF-servers in Linux. The exact same
configs worked in Windows, and I was even able to start servers manually
from the command line using the exact same start command as reported
in the gamecreate.log:

Code:
Wed Jan 21 10:09:18 2009: Launching process: /home/xxx/games/GameCreate-xxx/trackmaniaforever/TrackmaniaServer /nodaemon /internet /game_settings="MatchSettings\Tracks21000.txt" /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg from directory /home/xxx/games/GameCreate-xxx/trackmaniaforever


According to the console logs in the Logs-directory, this was the problem:
Code:
[2009/01/21 10:09:18] Match settings file : _MatchSettings\Tracks21000.txt_
[2009/01/21 10:09:18] Loading match settings...
[2009/01/21 10:09:18] ...ERROR: The playlist file does not exist.
...Could not load the match settings
[2009/01/21 10:09:18] Server not started: no Challenges available. Check your matchsettings!

I tried to replicate this error by starting TMF from the commandline with a
non-existing file, and the resulting log did not include the _'s around the file-
name. This led me to believe that GC somehow replaces the "s in the
commandline with _'s. I therefore went ahead and changed the commandline
from the default
Code:
/nodaemon /internet /game_settings="MatchSettings\Tracks%server:port%.txt" /dedicated_cfg=config%server:port%.cfg

to this, which worked nicely:
Code:
/nodaemon /internet /game_settings=MatchSettings\/Tracks%server:port%.txt /dedicated_cfg=config%server:port%.cfg


Can you please look into how GC treats the "-signs on the executed command-
line? Perhaps there is an escape missing somewhere in the code?

This is using the 5.2.4 client.

Edit: A TMF expert has advised me that /internet is a deprecated option
that is no longer necessary.

Last edited by Kybber on Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:20 am; edited 1 time in total
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:57 am 
Andrew
Mammoth
PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I ran a few tests, and it appears GC Client for linux launches the game with a slightly different argument set when launched from a shell and when launched from the client itself.

Here's a few examples that I tested against:

Quote:

/game_settings="MatchSettings\Tracks21000.txt" /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg
GSMC:
Arg: /game_settings="MatchSettings\Tracks21000.txt"
Arg: /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg

Shell:
Arg: /game_settings=MatchSettings\Tracks21000.txt
Arg: /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg

/game_settings="MatchSettings\T racks21000.txt" /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg
GSMC:
Arg: /game_settings="MatchSettings\T
Arg: racks21000.txt"
Arg: /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg

Shell:
Arg: /game_settings=MatchSettings\T racks21000.txt
Arg: /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg

/game_settings=\"MatchSettings\T racks21000.txt\" /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg
GSMC:
Arg: /game_settings=\"MatchSettings\T
Arg: racks21000.txt\"
Arg: /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg

Shell:
Arg: /game_settings="MatchSettingsT
Arg: racks21000.txt"
Arg: /dedicated_cfg=config21000.cfg


So you can see the differences quotes appear to make in the command line when launched from the shell vs. client launching the program, I've noted this down as a problem but no ETA.

For now I think you should just use your workaround until this is corrected.
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shade
PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Didn't I say this ages ago?

gp wrote:
Nevermind, fixed it. I took the "'s out of the launch command, for some reason it was executing these as _'s, and not loading the tracklist


my launch command:

Code:
/nodaemon /internet /game_settings=MatchSettings\Tracks%server:port%.txt /dedicated_cfg=config%server:port%.cfg
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