Failed to load factions.xml

[rivon]

I'm using Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64. When I start the game it just stops and my mouse pointer is stuck in the center of the screen and I need to logout with CTRL+ALT+DEL. In terminal it writes that it can't load factions.xml, probably because it can't find the data directory. Don't know what to do with that.

[loki1950]

Welcome rivon how did you install our beast or are you in userland with it where i usually recommend it be run makes playing with modifications easier If it's in systemland it may indeed be having trouble finding things so the next time you run could you pipe the terminal output to files the output from the initializing steps should tell us what is going on i don't like lock ups at least it wasn't a hard lock

Enjoy the Choice

[ace123]

I recommend trying it in Windowed mode (type "vssetup" and change the Color/Resolution menu to say "32-bit Windowed".

It sounds to me like the game may have crashed. If you want to find out why, run the game inside of gdb by doing "gdb vegastrike". (You need to have the game in Windowed mode or else it will lock up your machine)

Then, type "run" at the (gdb) prompt. And when the game crashes you will see "Program received signal SIG..." and type "backtrace" at the (gdb) prompt.

[rivon]

I installed the game with vsinstall.sh.
Here's the log:

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 In path /home/rivon/Games/vegastrike-linux-0.5.0/vegastrike-0.5.0/bin
Vega Strike  
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for license details.

Found MODDIR = /home/rivon/mods
DATADIR - No datadir specified in config file, using ; /home/rivon
SIMULATION_ATOM: 0.05
['/usr/local/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload']
['/home/rivon/modules/builtin', '/home/rivon/modules', '/home/rivon/bases']
Setting Screen to w 1280 h 1024 and pitch of 5120 and 32 bpp 4 bytes per pix mode
0 joysticks were found.

The names of the joysticks are:
FactionXML:LoadXML factions.xml
Failed to open 'factions.xml' this probably means it can't find the data directory

Edit: That's weird. I tried to run the game from the 'bin' directory in the game folder and it worked flawlessly.

[loki1950]

Ok try putting symbolic links from the binaries to the data folder's root

Enjoy the Choice