Garrysmod won't start properly

[shauntp]

My garrysmod server won't start (or I should say, it will start, but stops literally straight after without properly starting up).

I'm running on a VPS, latest version of both cPGS and cPanel/WHM, etc etc. No other gameservers have this problem. It literally does the benchmark thing, says console initiated, then says that the game server has exited.

pid 15706's current affinity mask: ff
pid 15706's new affinity mask: ff
Running a benchmark to measure system clock frequency...
Finished RDTSC test. To prevent the startup delay from this benchmark, set the environment variable RDTSC_FREQUENCY to 3066.000000 on this system. This value is dependent upon the CPU clock speed and architecture and should be determined separately for each server. The use of this mechanism for timing can be disabled by setting RDTSC_FREQUENCY to 'disabled'.
Using breakpad minidump system
Using breakpad crash handler

Console initialized.
Game server has exited.

That is exactly what it says.

Thanks

[darren]

I've noticed this too after updating via Steam, I'll hopefully have some sort of solution once I get 0.9.0 released in the near future.

[darren]

So I found that they neglected to include the linux binaries for garrysmod in the latest steam update, this has affected everyone regardless of them using cPGS or not. I've got copies of the latest linux binaries from the developer and am working them in to a new package. Also for a quick fix, do the following:

# cd /home/user/.gameservers/garrysmod_0/orangebox/garrysmod/bin/
# wget http://cpgs.cpanel.net/linux-131.zip
# unzip linux-131.zip
# chown user:user *

After that your server should start up (of course replacing "user" and 0 with the relevant username and server install #)

[darren]

After checking around, the binaries provided by Garry are built against GLIBC 2.7, so only Centos 6 will work, 5.7 or earlier have GLIBC 2.5 so you are likely to get this sort of error:


Console initialized.
failed to dlopen /home/user/.gameservers/garrysmod_1/orangebox/garrysmod/bin/server.so error=/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /home/user/.gameservers/garrysmod_1/orangebox/garrysmod/bin/server.so)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


I'm not sure what can be done at this point other than hope Garry releases binaries compiled against an earlier GLIBC so it will be available to more machines. For now, reinstall the server and make sure updates are disabled. I strongly advise against trying to update GLIBC on older Centos machines, it can seriously hose the entire box.