[Beta doesn't start on Ubuntu 16.04]

The graphics driver should (!) usually not crash, but give an error instead. In your specific case, you could try adjusting the shader that lets the game crash.

 

Replace the contents of the two shader noise() functions in data/shaders/noise.frag with "return 0.0;" and see if it works now.

 

But your planets will most likely be kinda boring then ;)

 

Yup, I can launch the game then.

 

If I can be of any more assistance in debugging this issue, let me know!

[Beta doesn't start on Ubuntu 16.04]

The log you uploaded tells me that your graphics drivers crash when compiling the shaders. Have you tried updating your GPU drivers?

 

Well, I'm using the official 'radeon' drivers from the Linux 4.4 kernel, and AMD doesn't supply newer drivers for the HD 7850 anymore as they say the open source driver should be enough for everything now. This also means that Canonical doesn't provide the closed-source drivers for 16.04 anymore :(

[Beta doesn't start on Ubuntu 16.04]

Hi,

 

when I try to launch the Beta which I just downloaded over Steam, the screen showing "Loading..." pops up for a second and then disappears again. When I start Steam from the command line, it shows the following log messages:

 

Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
/bin/bash: /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /bin/bash)
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
awk: /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6)
/usr/bin/ldd: line 119: printf: write error: Broken pipe
ExecCommandLine: "/home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam steam://open/driverhelperready"
ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/driverhelperready"
Game update: AppID 445220 "Avorion", ProcID 26890, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Client started: "/home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion" "--serverpath=bin/AvorionServer" 
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 445220
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561197990745198 [API loaded no]
Init Steamworks... ok
Creating settings... ok
Creating client window...Detected 1 displays
Display 0: x: 0, y: 0, w: 1920, h: 1080
Using display 0
Creating window, x: 0, y: 0, w: 1920, h: 1080... ok
Creating GL context... ok
Setting window mode WindowedSeamless... ok
Creating client window ok
Init shader level... ok
Init rendering...Init GLEW... ok
Init Debug Message Callback... ok
Set VSync... ok
Secure BackBuffer... ok
Init Canvas...Create canvas of size 1920 x 1080... ok
Init Canvas ok
Init Refraction Texture... ok
Init Post Processing... ok
Init Debug Renderers... ok
Init rendering ok
Check problematic drivers... ok
Init loading screen... ok
Draw first loading screen... ok
Init SFX... ok
Init Input... ok
Init GameInput... ok
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20160920182029)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
Init Main Menu...Received signal SIGSEGV
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

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backtrace() returned 38 addresses
[bt] #1 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN2ut14printBacktraceEv+0xf) [0xdc7dff]
[bt] #2 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x354a0) [0x7f6c1df674a0]
[bt] #3 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(_ZNK4llvm11SIInstrInfo19storeRegToStackSlotERNS_17MachineBasicBlockENS1_15bundle_iteratorINS_12MachineInstrENS_14ilist_iteratorIS4_EEEEjbiPKNS_19TargetRegisterClassEPKNS_18TargetRegisterInfoE+0x588) [0x7f6c13b135e8]
[bt] #4 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x7824e6) [0x7f6c12f304e6]
[bt] #5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x78663d) [0x7f6c12f3463d]
[bt] #6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x8a17fb) [0x7f6c1304f7fb]
[bt] #7 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x8a3f7b) [0x7f6c13051f7b]
[bt] #8 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(_ZN4llvm12RegAllocBase16allocatePhysRegsEv+0xc4) [0x7f6c13041124]
[bt] #9 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x8a4f4d) [0x7f6c13052f4d]
[bt] #10 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(_ZN4llvm13FPPassManager13runOnFunctionERNS_8FunctionE+0x1f2) [0x7f6c12e8c2a2]
[bt] #11 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(_ZN4llvm13FPPassManager11runOnModuleERNS_6ModuleE+0x2b) [0x7f6c12e8c63b]
[bt] #12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(_ZN4llvm6legacy15PassManagerImpl3runERNS_6ModuleE+0x30f) [0x7f6c12e8beef]
[bt] #13 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x11da92f) [0x7f6c1398892f]
[bt] #14 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(LLVMTargetMachineEmitToMemoryBuffer+0xa9) [0x7f6c13988c89]
[bt] #15 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x6e46ef) [0x7f6c160996ef]
[bt] #16 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x6280e6) [0x7f6c15fdd0e6]
[bt] #17 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x629dea) [0x7f6c15fdedea]
[bt] #18 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x636a5f) [0x7f6c15feba5f]
[bt] #19 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x254cba) [0x7f6c15c09cba]
[bt] #20 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x256876) [0x7f6c15c0b876]
[bt] #21 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x256f43) [0x7f6c15c0bf43]
[bt] #22 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x202eef) [0x7f6c15bb7eef]
[bt] #23 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x24a9ab) [0x7f6c15bff9ab]
[bt] #24 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x260022) [0x7f6c15c15022]
[bt] #25 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_dri.so(+0x17d21a) [0x7f6c15b3221a]
[bt] #26 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN6Shader13createProgramERKN5boost10filesystem4pathES4_RKSt6vectorISsSaISsEE+0xaa6) [0xce75f6]
[bt] #27 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN6Shader10getProgramERKN5boost10filesystem4pathES4_RKSt6vectorISsSaISsEE+0xcc) [0xce9a4c]
[bt] #28 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN6Shader6createERKSsS1_+0x16d) [0xce9c4d]
[bt] #29 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN6ShaderC1ERKSsS1_+0x73) [0xce9f23]
[bt] #30 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN14SkyBoxRenderer23generateBackgroundNoiseER11CubeTextureR6Random+0x107) [0x6fcd07]
[bt] #31 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN14SkyBoxRenderer18generateBackgroundERK15SectorSpecifics+0x163) [0x6fd403]
[bt] #32 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN14SkyBoxRendererC2ERK11CoordinatesRK4Seedb+0x633) [0x6fdfd3]
[bt] #33 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN19ClientMainMenuStateC2EP6Client+0x44f) [0x6b524f]
[bt] #34 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(_ZN6Client10initializeER16ClientDescriptor+0xc75) [0x67b285]
[bt] #35 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion(main+0x112a) [0x6717ea]
[bt] #36 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7f6c1df52830]
[bt] #37 /home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Avorion/bin/Avorion() [0x66a219]
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/andreas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
??:?

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Received signal SIGSEGV

 

Any suggestions on how to get around that?

 

System specs:

Intel Xeon 1231v3

16 GB RAM

AMD HD 7850 Graphics with 2 GB VRAM

Ubuntu 16.04.1

 

Edit: I already tried the good old "find .local/share/Steam/ -name libstdc++.so.6 -exec rm {} \;" trick which is often cited whenlooking up the error message on Google, but that didn't help.

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