[Workaround] Minetest not starting, no error message

rudolf
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[Workaround] Minetest not starting, no error message

by rudolf » Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:31

Hi,

I wanted to install minetest, version 0.4.9 is the version marked stable in Gentoo's portage reposeitory. After installing it I run and get

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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$ minetest
Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.0
Linux 3.12.21-gentoo-r1-custom4 #6 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:39:37 CEST 2014 x86_64
Using renderer: OpenGL 3.0
Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile : Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
GLSL version: 1.3
Loaded texture: /usr/share/games/minetest/games/minetest_game/menu/header.png
Loaded texture: /usr/share/games/minetest/games/minetest_game/menu/icon.png
Loaded texture: /usr/share/games/minetest/games/minimal/menu/icon.png


after which I see a window flash up but not staing for more than an instance.

After waiting a long time, I press Ctrl+C and it closes with

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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^C12:19:25: INFO: sigint_handler(): Ctrl-C pressed, shutting down.


I wanted to find out what went wrong, so I read "debug.txt" in ~/.minetest/ which only contains:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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12:19:25: INFO: sigint_handler(): Ctrl-C pressed, shutting down.


I read the manual a bit and discover the --verbose and --trace flags, which only gives [INFO] messages (no warnings, no errors). This is the output:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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$ minetest --trace
Enabling trace level debug output
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Using system-wide paths (NOT RUN_IN_PLACE)
12:23:07: INFO[main]: path_share = /usr/share/games/minetest
12:23:07: INFO[main]: path_user  = /home/myuser/.minetest
12:23:07: INFO[main]: minetest with SER_FMT_VER_HIGHEST_READ=26, VER=0.4.9 BUILD_TYPE=Release RUN_IN_PLACE=0 USE_GETTEXT=1 USE_SOUND=1 USE_CURL=1 USE_FREETYPE=1 USE_LUAJIT=0 STATIC_SHAREDIR=/usr/share/games/minetest
12:23:07: INFO[main]: logfile    = /home/myuser/.minetest/debug.txt
12:23:07: VERBOSE[main]: httpfetch_init: parallel_limit=8
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Message locale is now set to: LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8;LC_NAME=en_GB.utf8;LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.utf8;LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.utf8;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.utf8
Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.0
Linux 3.12.21-gentoo-r1-custom4 #6 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:39:37 CEST 2014 x86_64
Using renderer: OpenGL 3.0
Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile : Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
GLSL version: 1.3
12:23:07: INFO[main]: text_height=16
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Searching worlds...
12:23:07: INFO[main]:   In /home/myuser/.minetest/worlds:
12:23:07: INFO[main]: 0 found.
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Waiting for other menus
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Waited for other menus
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Initializing...
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Vorbis extension NOT present
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Initialized: OpenAL 1.1 ALSOFT 1.15.1, using OpenAL Soft
12:23:07: INFO[main]: GUIEngine: Initializing Lua
12:23:07: INFO[AsyncWorkerThread_0]: Initializing Asynchronous environment
12:23:07: INFO[AsyncWorkerThread_1]: Initializing Asynchronous environment
12:23:07: INFO[AsyncWorkerThread_2]: Initializing Asynchronous environment
12:23:07: INFO[main]: SCRIPTAPI: initialized mainmenu modules
12:23:07: VERBOSE[main]: Loading and running script from /usr/share/games/minetest/builtin/mainmenu.lua
12:23:07: INFO[AsyncWorkerThread_3]: Initializing Asynchronous environment
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Searching worlds...
12:23:07: INFO[main]:   In /home/myuser/.minetest/worlds:
12:23:07: INFO[main]: 0 found.
Loaded texture: /usr/share/games/minetest/games/minetest_game/menu/header.png
12:23:07: VERBOSE[main]: OpenALSoundManager::maintain(): 0 playing sounds, 0 sound names loaded
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.0.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.1.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.2.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.3.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.4.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.5.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.6.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.7.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.8.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.9.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /home/myuser/.minetest/sounds/main_menu.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.0.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.1.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.2.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.3.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.4.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.5.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.6.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.7.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.8.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.9.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: Audio: Error opening /usr/share/games/minetest/sounds/main_menu.ogg for decoding
12:23:07: INFO[main]: OpenALSoundManager: "main_menu" not found.
Loaded texture: /usr/share/games/minetest/games/minetest_game/menu/icon.png
Loaded texture: /usr/share/games/minetest/games/minimal/menu/icon.png


this is where the window flashes up again, then when I close it I prints

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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12:24:12: INFO[main]: Audio: Deinitializing...
12:24:12: INFO[main]: Audio: Deinitialized.
12:24:12: INFO[main]: GUIEngine: Deinitializing scripting
12:24:12: INFO[main]: Searching worlds...
12:24:12: INFO[main]:   In /home/myuser/.minetest/worlds:
12:24:12: INFO[main]: 0 found.
12:24:12: INFO[main]: Updating configuration file: "/home/myuser/.minetest/minetest.conf"
12:24:12: INFO[main]: Skipping writing of /home/myuser/.minetest/minetest.conf because content wouldn't be modified
12:24:12: INFO[main]: Updating configuration file: "/home/myuser/.minetest/minetest.conf"
12:24:12: INFO[main]: Skipping writing of /home/myuser/.minetest/minetest.conf because content wouldn't be modified
12:24:12: VERBOSE[main]: httpfetch_cleanup: cleaning up


Since no error or warn message is presented it seems as it should work, but it does not: window flashes up and does not stay. But I do not know how debug this problem further.

What can I do to get it working?

Kind regards.
Last edited by rudolf on Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:49, edited 1 time in total.
 

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Re: Minetest not starting, no error message (gentoo, 0.4.9)

by Morn76 » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:40

Which window manager or desktop environment are you using? Maybe the MT window just gets hidden for some reason?
 

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Re: Minetest not starting, no error message (gentoo, 0.4.9)

by rudolf » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:42

Update/partial solution:

After mentioning my problem on the IRC channel I got some ideas to try out. Buy setting

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.
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fullscreen = true


in ~/.minetest/minetest.conf, which is default set to "false" the main menu starts finally. I do not know what the problem was specifically, the people on IRC said it might be a irrlicht+wmii problem (wmii is my window manager). Somehow maybe irrlich do not approve of the window handeling of wmii. Another person on IRC said that it was working fine with gentoo+minetest+KDE (are however using ~amd64 keyword on minetest, I use all stable), so wmii+something seems to be the problem.

Thanks to sfan5 and SylvieLorxu.
 


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