CS:Source - Dedicated server won't start

[cmengle]

I'm trying to get my CS:Source DS running on my new Fedora Core 3 box and it comes up with the following error:

Startup command:
screen -A -d -m -S css ./srcds_run +maxplayers 16 +map cs_office +log on -autoupdate

Error:
Console initialized.
Attempted to create unknown entity type event_queue_saveload_proxy!
Game .dll loaded for "Counter-Strike: Source"
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xf6e81c80 ***
./srcds_run: line 341: 2728 Aborted $HL_CMD


Any suggestions?


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[mr_poche]

Yeah, i have the same f?&?*& problem with FC3.


i tryed everything within my knowledge so far, and nothing worked!


:O

Hope someone has the ultimate solution!

I luv pre-compiled stuff :I Witch libc , glibc has been used to compile CS:Source?

[andersForsberg]

Had the same problem and the helpful guys at hlds_linux finally got to the bottom of it. FC3 and recent gentoo systems have a version of glibc which aborts when dodgy code throws up an error. This is to prevent data corruption, memory leaks, etc.

You have two options until Valve can address the bugs -- downgrade to an earlier version of glibc, or set MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0 or 1. e.g.:
export MALLOC_CHECK_=1.

Set it to 1 if you want to see the errors, or 0 if you don't.

More details are here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22501

[cmengle]

Thanks, got it working. Sweet!

[Bromme]

Originally posted by andersForsberg
Had the same problem and the helpful guys at hlds_linux finally got to the bottom of it. FC3 and recent gentoo systems have a version of glibc which aborts when dodgy code throws up an error. This is to prevent data corruption, memory leaks, etc.

You have two options until Valve can address the bugs -- downgrade to an earlier version of glibc, or set MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0 or 1. e.g.:
export MALLOC_CHECK_=1.

Set it to 1 if you want to see the errors, or 0 if you don't.

More details are here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22501

How / where do you set MALLOC_CHECK_=0/1 ??
I tried to find out about it, but i did not fint it anywere.

Thanks in advance :)

[cmengle]

Add the setting to the .bash_profile for the user that runs the server. Here's what mine looks like:

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export MALLOC_CHECK_=0
export PATH
unset USERNAME

[Bromme]

Thanks :)
Now it's running :D

[GrungeMan]

Well its finally running on mine too. Still falling through the floor, but not craching anyways =)

[Cooley]

I have the same problem but changing Malloc did not help.

Cooley