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I just installed minetest in Ubuntu Gnome and I can't get it to either load a world or create one.

I created a .minetest folder in my home folder and put a /mods and /worlds folder in it. The mods are showing in the UI but the worlds don't show up and I can't even create one. It just give me an "error failed to initialize world" EM. Anyone know why?

Can you give us the debug.txt output?
Additionally when you say the worlds don't show up do you mean that you copied worlds into that folder?

Nathan.S wrote:Can you give us the debug.txt output?
Additionally when you say the worlds don't show up do you mean that you copied worlds into that folder?

Hi Nathan:
Thanks for the quick response man but I got it working. It was kind of strange. The debug.txt said that the path wasn't there. I could clearly see it there so I deleted it and let it create one. It started working then. I can't explain why it didn't work before. I even checked to see that it was spelled right. I guess if it wasn't then it would have created one. Weird!
Anyway thanks again.

It may have been a permission thing, though I doubt that. Usually when Minetest runs the first time it will create the .minetest directory, because you created it yourself it may have been a problem.

Nathan.S wrote:It may have been a permission thing, though I doubt that. Usually when Minetest runs the first time it will create the .minetest directory, because you created it yourself it may have been a problem.

That makes sense but I would think that the error log would have said "access denied" instead of "doesn't exist". I wonder if it was a permissions thing that brought up a small glitch or bug. It's an interesting little error.