error failed to initialize world

[GFX_Garage]

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?

[Nathan.S]

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?

[GFX_Garage]

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.

[Nathan.S]

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.

[GFX_Garage]

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.