Can't start dedicated server on Mac (456020)

So I'm reading the other bug reports/dedicated server threads and it seems these issues are related to the switch to v2 mods. My mod setup is as follows:

• Dedicated server's modsetup references a single workshop collection:

  ServerModCollectionSetup("852612796")

   
• AFAICT, steamcmd uses the same data folder as regular (GUI) Steam client - not sure if that leads to any conflicts.
• Since Steam is a pig with its data folder, it's symlinked to another volume:

  ~/Library/Application Support/Steam -> /Volumes/Shared/AppData/Steam

• I don't see any of my subscribed DST mods downloaded to .../Steam/SteamApps/workshop/. The only app that has its mods there is 241100, which I understand is some Input handler used by Steam.

Interesting... when I quit the GUI Steam client on the machine before starting the dedicated server, the dedicated server crashes differently... (insert apple slogan joke). Nothing on stderr, server log ends abruptly.

dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer_2021-03-16-101315_roberta.crash dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer_2021-03-16-101315-1_roberta.crash server_log-nosteam.txt

Edited March 16, 2021 by myxal
add collection link/call

Encountered similar problem...

It seems that require function will crash if file does not exist.

Also, 256 bytes problem seems still existing.

Can you please post your dedicated_server_mods_setup.lua, and your modoverrides.lua files? Nevermind, all good.

Changed Status to Fixed

@Hubert Zhang, what does the 256B limit actually refer to? The absolute paths to the dedicated server and clusters are pretty short IMHO, although the Mac build adds a ton of characters just to navigate within the bundle.. is it the 2nd find here, where the app bundle's directory structure is replicated with the bundle?

$ find /Volumes/Shared/Applications/dstds/ -name mods
/Volumes/Shared/Applications/dstds//dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer.app/Contents/mods
/Volumes/Shared/Applications/dstds//dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer.app/steamapps/downloading/343050/dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer.app/Contents/mods

@zarklord_klei I'm reading that bad_lexical_cast may occur inconsistently across different stdc++ implementations when converting strings representing particular real number to float values. [1] [2] 

I wonder if the issue that Mac versions don't properly report free space is related?

modsetup: dedicated_server_mods_setup.lua

overrides: modoverrides.lua

5 hours ago, zarklord_klei said:

Changed Status to Fixed

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Fixed a bug causing dedicated servers to crash if SteamGameServer_Init failed.

Nope, this still crashes in 456207.

dontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer_2021-03-16-225102_roberta.crashdontstarve_dedicated_server_nullrenderer_2021-03-16-225153_roberta.crash

But it did get me to re-check port config, apparently my router needs a reboot to actually apply port forwards :steamfacepalm: With that fixed, the server starts!

Re: free space - server now shows what looks like a number next to "MB" of disk space, but something is wrong here - I have nothing with 2.8TB free attached.

[00:00:09]: Available disk space for save files: 2862937 MB

$ df -h 
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused               ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1    88Gi   65Gi   11Gi    86% 1156239 9223372036853619568    0%   /
devfs          338Ki  338Ki    0Bi   100%    1170                   0  100%   /dev
/dev/disk1s5    88Gi  2.0Gi   11Gi    16%       1 9223372036854775806    0%   /private/var/vm
/dev/disk1s2   112Gi   34Gi   11Gi    76%  218681 9223372036854557126    0%   /Volumes/Shared
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0                   0  100%   /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0                   0  100%   /home
/dev/disk3s1    59Gi   49Gi   11Gi    82%   52593          4294914686    0%   /Volumes/ADATA 64GB

The cluster is on /Volumes/Shared

3 minutes ago, myxal said:

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Fixed a bug causing dedicated servers to crash if SteamGameServer_Init failed.

Nope, this still crashes in 456207.

okay, I'll take another look.

Changed Status to Fixed