Need help with Linux dedicated server, mods and probably a X64 problem

[Kentsfield93 0]

Hi folks,

 

I really need some help :( A friend of mine and I are constantly trying to get a breaking point server to work. The reason why I ask here for help is, that the breaking point mod is no longer supported and we're not sure whether it's a mod related problem or a A3 dedicated/Linux problem.

 

Where do I start...

 

We set up a arma 3 dedicated server on my root server (Ubuntu 17.10 x64), installed all the config files, made a LOT of tweaks here and there to finally get the server to run. We had struggles with mod extensions since the dedicated server under linux does not like capital letters, so we had to modify the config.cfg file and all files in the mod folder to lower case letters until the server finally started. Here's our first problem: We can't get the server to really log the output when we start the arma3server file. We tried with piping it into a server log which does not help since it only logs info when the server is running. All errors and problems before don't get logged. Maybe I need to output the stdout to a file or something (Would be nice if you could help me, I don't know how to do it :) ).

 

We can connect to our server which has (assumingly) loaded the mod files and folders aswell as the custom mission file. You can proceed in the lobby, but as soon as you're in the loading screen and there is a "retrieving character data" we're stuck, the server outputs a ton of error messages in .sqf files and so on. The only clue we can find in the log file is this: "CallExtension 'BreakingPointExt' could not be found". We googled for hours and only found some hints and links that it has something to do with 64Bit, that the mod needs Arma 64 Bit and we assume that Arma on my server runs on 32 Bit. There's the next problem - We googled for hours and did not found an answer: Is there a Arma 3 Linux Dedicated 64 Bit server? We only found some information from the last about two years that it probably will come but Bohemia does not know when.

 

Maybe there is another problem which we don't know about, that's pretty frustrating. We don't know whether it's the mod, the server, a 64bit problem, config problem... And we also don't know where to look for help :( 

 

In a nutshell: Is there a 64 Bit dedicated Linux server? Is there any way to properly log informations (like a verbose or so)? Without that information we can't debug. Maybe someone encountered a similar problem and knows a solution.

 

Sorry for the long text, but the frustration needs to go somewhere :P 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

-Kenny

[Dedmen 2588]

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

Is there a 64 Bit dedicated Linux server?

No

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

Is there any way to properly log informations

RPT log.

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

since the dedicated server under linux does not like capital letters

Yes all PBO's need to be lowercase.

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

config.cfg

What is config.cfg supposed to be? Configs are in config.cpp files.

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

so we had to modify the config.cfg file

You are doing something wrong if you need to modify the config for it to work on Linux.

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

Maybe I need to output the stdout to a file or something

RPT log get's printed to stderr

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

The only clue we can find in the log file is this: "CallExtension 'BreakingPointExt' could not be found"

Did you compile the extension for linux?

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

that it has something to do with 64Bit

No it doesn't.

 

On 11.5.2018 at 9:02 PM, Kentsfield93 said:

that the mod needs Arma 64 Bit

No it doesn't. There however doesn't seem to be a Linux version of the Extension. So you gotta port it by yourself.