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Resolved RuneMate Linux Not Working

Discussion in 'Client & Site Support' started by Hurricane, Oct 31, 2015.

  1. Hurricane

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    So after installing RuneMate on my Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS copy via the Install script bot found at Download | RuneMate, I get to the first login screen and can input my Username, Password and Select the Game but after that the Client seems to dissappear and a RuneMate Icon appears at the top in my taskbar but the client never seems to load. What's going on?

     
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    Post #11 by Arbiter, Nov 3, 2015
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    Have you installed the video drivers correctly on Ubuntu?
     
  4. Hurricane

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    Hmm, no. How would I do that?
     
  5. Plebsin

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    [1222UTC] I'm booting up a VM right now with Ubuntu 14.04 to see if i can replicate your issue.

    [1903UTC] @Hurricane I got pulled away for other things but I finally looked into the issue. It looks as though the application is attempting to write system preferences within the /etc directory which is not normally allowed by a non-root user. I'm looking for a temp workaround now, but don't get your hopes up because I can't even say for sure if the is the issue here. *EDIT: It didn't work, see post #6 below.
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    1. Nov 01, 2015 17:09:24 AM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
    2. WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/com create failed.
     
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  6. Arbiter

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    If all else fails, you can always test with the standalone version to make sure the issue is not in the installation process.
     
  7. Plebsin

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    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the standalone does work.

    And before I forget, one last thing I tried with the installed client was to override the persistence preferences to point at a user-writable directory
    "-Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=/home/testuser/test-004" and "
    "-Djava.util.prefs.systemRoot=/home/testuser/test-004" in the runemate.vmoptions file. This did fix the errors showing up in the log, which was double-checked by looking at the running jvm options using the jps utility, but this did not fix the issue of the client not coming up after login.
     
  8. Arbiter

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    What do you mean by not coming up? Perhaps a screenshot would help.
     
  9. Cloud

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    It sounds like the native installers are making it write to a different backing store file than usual (on windows it uses the registry).
     
  10. Arbiter

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    If you installed RuneMate into a directory that requires super user, then you're probably going to need to use sudo to run it. Alternatively, you can install it somewhere local like /home/you/runemate/.
     
  11. Plebsin

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    Gfycat GIF

    Exactly. The installer defaults the backing store to the system root node, which on linux is "/etc". *EDIT: Arbiter and I were toying around on Slack and noticed that it will run using sudo.

    I installed it under the user's home directory.
     
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  12. Arbiter

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    Related issue: Resolved - [LINUX] How to get started? | Community | RuneMate

     

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