connecting forever and xio-error

please split this report, if those errors are not related.

i've created an account and logged in successfully on the website.
the game-client was downloaded and extracted as per the instructions here.
however, i ran into several problems:
- clicking the "Configuration"-button does nothing for me - it was the first thing i tried, as i naturally configure apps before using them
- when logging into the game, the client hangs at the "connecting"-screen
- the "Quit Game"-button on that screen does nothing for me
- when closing the application, it reports an XIO-error (fatal error 11) on the terminal

here is what i did in detail:
- wget and unzip the client, cd and run it, it opens in a 1024x768 window
- click configuration
- change resolution to 1280x1024 (my native resolution) with the right-arrow-button right of the resolution-field on the bottom-left
- enter my account-details and login
- wait several minutes at the "connecting" screen
- click "Quit game"
- close the window

result on the console:
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 14075 requests (14075 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
AL lib: ALc.c:1879: exit(): closing 1 Device
AL lib: ALc.c:1808: alcCloseDevice(): destroying 1 Context(s)
AL lib: ALc.c:1420: alcDestroyContext(): deleting 36 Source(s)
AL lib: ALc.c:1818: alcCloseDevice(): deleting 776 Buffer(s)

i expected problems when changing the resolution or switching to fullscreen would cause this error, so i grepped through the files to find the resolution-settings - without success. trying to start the game again to change the setting kept me sitting in front of the initialization-screen without progress and giving me the same XIO-error when closing the application.
moving away the client.cfg caused the game not to find its fonts anymore, because it seems to expect them in /usr/local/share/ryzom/data.
finally, i changed the fullscreen-setting in client_default.cfg and moved back the client.cfg and after several client-restarts, it got me to the login-screen again, now the resolution-setting said "windowed", i switched it to 800x600 and back again but after entering my details and clicking "Connect", i was sitting at the "Connecting"-screen forever.
i have attached client.log, error.log and log.log of this last session.

system-specs:
distro: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable/experimental
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
4GB RAM, 6GB swap-partition
GPU: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 195.36.24
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.50 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
i am using OSS4 for sound, not ALSA! (disabling sound in client_default.cfg made no difference, however, only removed the AL-lib-messages when closing the application)

connecting_forever.zip - zipped logs (47 kB)

Replies (3)

RE: connecting forever and xio-error - Added by booiiing almost 5 years ago

after several retries, i am getting a short black blink or fade-out, before the "Connecting"-screen is restored, but i'm not getting it every time.

RE: connecting forever and xio-error - Added by kervala almost 5 years ago

First, the "client configuration" tool is obsolete even under Windows and we have to change interface or update existing one.

To change your settings, you have to go in game and user Configuration window (key U) or manually edit client.cfg

You should never edit client_default.cfg because that's default settings and it could be overwritten by a next patch. Instead, you should copy lines from client_default.cfg you are interested and paste them into client.cfg, settings will use these values from client.cfg instead of client_default.cfg.

The quit game button should work so it's not normal either.

The XIO error is normal, because we don't yet intercept this X event.

It seems like all is working fine with OpenAL in your logs, but since you couldn't go until character selection screen, you can't yet hear music or sound.

Your hangs problem is not normal and I don't see anything related to it in logs :( That's your main problem in fact, other are minor.

Thanks for reporting.

RE: connecting forever and xio-error - Added by booiiing almost 5 years ago

in fact, i do have sound. sorry, forgot to mention that. at the end of the loading-screen, some seconds before the "connecting"-screen is shown, i can hear some music and it continues while the connecting-screen is on.

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