Problems running

[bdiesel]

Hi,
I just installed vegastrike on the latest Ubuntu using the SVN instructions.

The program seemed to run great the first time but when I started the game a second time it skipped the menu and went straight to an unknown planet with no visible concourse, ship or anything. I tried rebuilding the program, but that didn't help.

I'm new to both linux and vegastrike so i have no ideas on how to fix other that redownloading everything and hoping for better luck but I'd rater not because it took forever the first time.

Any Ideas?

[loki1950]

Welcome to our forum and Linux bdiesel now to get this game running for you the next time you start the game do so in a terminal this way

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./vegastrike 2>vserr 1>vsout

Then post those two files as attachments to your post that will tell me what the game thinks it is doing and should tell why it is not working.I will be back to my keyboard about 3 am so don't expect an immediate answer

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[bdiesel]

Thanks Loki, hopefully these files will actually upload.

[loki1950]

Since you mentioned that it ran the first time lets try something simple first in your Home folder there is a hidden folder called .vegastrike(hit ctrl h to see hidden files) where the game stores saves and a bunch of other stuff either delete or move to an other folder everything in it.Then run vssetup again to create a new config file then start the game in a terminal again(with the phrase i gave you earlier just in case) it should get you back to the main menu in the game pick Champaign and while you are on the starting base go to the Mission computer screen at the top there is a Save/Load button it will take you to an other screen where you can create a save just type the name in the bottom text input area and click the save button,I see that you are using the HQ Textures Pack i haven't yet so that may be the stopper but we will see.

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[bdiesel]

No, that didn't help. Same Problem. I uploaded the new files.

[loki1950]

Looking at the log files i find

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MISSION_NAME is empty using : test/test1.mission

which suggests that there is something wrong with the config file so have a look at /home/brian/.vegastrike/vegastrike.config near the end look for this section

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<section name="general">
			<var name="times_to_show_help_screen" value="-1"/>
			<var name="dockingtime" value="20"/>
			<var name="remember_savegame" value="false"/>
			<var name="load_last_savegame" value="false"/>
			<var name="write_savegame_on_exit" value="false"/>
			<var name="debug_config" value="false"/>
			<var name="debug_fs" value="0"/> <!-- set to 3 for most comprehensive debugging-->
			<var name="default_mission" value="main_menu.mission"/>
			<var name="galaxy" value="milky_way.xml"/>
			<var name="yaw" value="0"/>
      <var name="pitch" value="0"/>
			<var name="roll" value="0"/>
			<var name="remove_impossible_downgrades" value="true"/>
      <var name="PercentageSpeedChangeToFaultSearch" value="300"/>

do you see main_menu.mission in your copy if not let me know and i will post a fresh copy of the config file for you.

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[bdiesel]

I just ran an svn upadate on my folder /VegaStrike/data Now the game seems to be working again. I thought tried that yesterday with no effect. It seems weird that something in the folder could have gotten messed up after running the game once. The only thing I remember doing between the first two attempts at running the game was to download some joystick calibration software from the ubuntu package manager. Anyway its working now. Thanks for your help.

[loki1950]

To manage the svn tree i use RapidSVN a GUI for svn it should be in the Ubuntu repos also i never run the game in my primary svn repo to avoid any possibility of corruption so if you have lots of HD space just do a copy/paste to a new folder i call mine playground Running the game the first time adds things to the tree such as the compiled versions of all the Python scripts which can confuse svn when you do an update.

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