Upgrade to nexuiz 2.0 with yum on fc5.x86_64

[lowey2002]

I downloaded nexuiz some months ago, so firstly let me just say how cool I think this game is.. IT ROCKS!! Seriously, it had everything I love about quake DM and then so much more!

After installing nexuiz with yum, I couldn't seem to connect to any of the servers because my version was out of date. I was happy enough playing with bots at the time. Then I grew impatient to see what 2.0 had to offer and made a rash decision to update with:

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# yum update nexuiz

And now it does not work.

More precisely, nexuiz-sdl toggles my screen as if preparing to load. It locks up indefinetly at this black screen and does not respond to ctrl+z, ctrl+c - I must kill -9 it.

I have more luck with nexuiz-glx. It loads to menu, it's very quick, sound is working; almost too good to be true. Start a game and it crashes, but this time it releases my console straight away. The output is too long to post in it's entirety, this appears to be the important parts:

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    ...
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair7c
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair8
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair9
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair10
    ...
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/m_white
^7DrawQ_ResetClipArea: not in 2d rendering stage!
^7g_maplist: Map 'rune_nexdm12' not found in database - ignored
^7g_maplist: Map 'tdm_nexdmextra2' not found in database - ignored
^7g_maplist: Map 'tdm_nexdmextra1' not found in database - ignored
    ...
^7NexPlayer entered the game
^7Fake CD track 8 playing...
^7Received signal 11, exiting...
^7Client "NexPlayer" dropped
^7Client "Danger" dropped
^7Client "Sensible" dropped
^7OpenGL Backend shutting down


I am assuming that all this means that I missing part of the whole of the data. But I do not know what I am missing. Here is a list of my currently installed packages

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libglade.x86_64      1:0.17-16.2.1
SDL.x86_64           1.2.9-5.2.1
glx-utils.x86_64     6.4.2-6
kmod-fglrx.x86_64    8.26.18-1.2.6.17_1.213
nexuiz-data.noarch       2.0-2             
nexuiz-server.x86_64     2.0-2.fc5
nexuiz.x86_64            2.0-2.fc5


Please help get nexuiz working again *sobs* I need my gaming fix.

[esteel]

Try to move ~/.nexuiz/data/config.cfg to a save place. This file contains your Nexuiz settings and most probably still has some old settings that conflict with the new version.

^7g_maplist: Map 'rune_nexdm12' not found in database - ignored
^7g_maplist: Map 'tdm_nexdmextra2' not found in database - ignored
^7g_maplist: Map 'tdm_nexdmextra1' not found in database - ignored

Those are the old mapnames.. Have you tried 'instant action'? Does it work? Also 'join' should work despite old settings.

If that does not help you can also try to download the official version from http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.p ... =downloads. Its just a zip file that you have to extract somewere and then start the nexuiz-linux.sh. (Hmm note that this script uses the -sdl version so if it gives you problems you might have to edit the script to use -glx instead. The next version will ship with two scripts for the two versions )

[lowey2002]

Those are the old mapnames.. Have you tried 'instant action'? Does it work? Also 'join' should work despite old settings.

No, instant action does not work, same result as campaign.

Attempting to join is interesting, the mouse staggers and the sound stalls as if hit by a very slow framerate. No other menu items respond like this one does.

[divVerent]

Try moving your current .nexuiz directory away (mv ~/.nexuiz ~/.nexuiz-orig) and try again. I just tested it on a freshly installed FC5-x86_64 and it worked.

However, if that doesn't work, try getting the official Nexuiz package from http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/

[esteel]

Interesting.. I did expect Instant Action and Campaign to work nevertheless. Well try to remove the config file or the whole directory as divVerent suggested.

[lowey2002]

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mv  ~/.nexuiz/ ~/nexuiz.old
cd ~; ls -a

Removed the directory like you asked. Re-ran nexuiz-glx. Exact same result and I could not find any difference in the way that it failed. After the first run, this ~/.nexuiz direcory had returned with the exact same files, no diff.

I began to have doubts that using 'yum update' was such a good idea; for one thing it did not take as long as to download as it should have.

To cut a boring story short, I did this:

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yum remove nexuiz.x86_64 nexuiz-data.noarch nexuiz-server.x86_64
rm -rf /etc/skel/.nexuiz/
rm -rf /home/username/.nexuiz/
rm -rf /root/.nexuiz/
echo "Yes, yes, I know. I ran nexuiz as root this one time ...  frag me root."
yum -y install nexuiz.x86_64 nexuiz-data.noarch nexuiz-server.x86_64


It took a while on my connection. When it finished, I ran nexiuz-glx.

Would you believe it; crashes in the exact same way.

No wait! There is a difference. Now nexiuz-sdl works as well .. right up till the exact same point that nexiuz-glx crashes.

I'll download nexuiz-20.zip from sourceforge. In the meantime, is there anything else that I can try.

For example, this file:

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^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair7

does not exist on my filesystem:

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#locate gfx/
# find / -type f -name crosshair*


So my guess is that my ~/.nexuiz directory is not up to date. Mine doesn't have much in it .. just a config.cfg file with some key binds. What else do I need in here?

[KadaverJack]

For example, this file:

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^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/crosshair7

does not exist on my filesystem:

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#locate gfx/
# find / -type f -name crosshair*


So my guess is that my ~/.nexuiz directory is not up to date. Mine doesn't have much in it .. just a config.cfg file with some key binds. What else do I need in here?

Those errors are not critical. There are only 6 different crosshairs, but the engine supports up to 32 crosshairs (so ppl can use custom crosshairs without overwriting the default ones).
And even if those files were there, you wouldn't see them for 2 reasons: all textures, models, maps, etc. are in data20060614.pk3 (which is a ordinary zip file) and the existing crosshairs are hardcoded in the engine binary

[divVerent]

What graphics card do you have? Which driver version?

[lowey2002]

It's a radeon ATI x700

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kmod-fglrx.x86_64    8.26.18-1.2.6.17_1.213

[lowey2002]

I've downloaded nexuiz-20.zip from sourceforge. It's still crashing. nexiuz-linux.sh ends like this:

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Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)


The other binaries end like so:

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^7Received signal 11, exiting...
^7Client "Player" dropped
^7Client "Paranoia" dropped
^7Client "Resurrection" dropped
^7OpenGL Backend shutting down


I've updated fglrx and the kernel. No dice.