EU4 crashes at launch since 1.29 update [Linux]

[jabranham]

Hi there -

Since the Manchu update EU4 crashes at launch for me on linux. When launched through Steam, I get this error:


ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/games/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/games/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.


If I try to launch the game directly I get this:


[games@earth:~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Europa Universalis IV]$ ./eu4
bash: ./eu4: No such file or directory


even though the file exists and has correct permissions set (e.g. is executable). If I try to launch it another way I get:


[games@earth:~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Europa Universalis IV]$ bash eu4
eu4: eu4: cannot execute binary file

 

[grotaclas]

Did you already try the workaround to change the launch options in steam to

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc.so.6 %command%

You may have to specify the path where libc.so.6 is on your system. But it probably doesn't matter. For me

LD_PRELOAD= %command%

also works
BTW: "bash eu4" can't work, because it is not a bash/shell script. But it is very weird that ./eu4 gives you No such file or directory.

 

[grotaclas]

If I try to launch the game directly I get this:

[games@earth:~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Europa Universalis IV]$ ./eu4
bash: ./eu4: No such file or directory

Now I remembered where I have seen this error before. It can happen if you are missing a required system library. What is the output of "ldd eu4"? If ldd gives something like "not found", you are probably missing some libraries. Or you are on a 32-bit system. The new eu4 version requires a 64-bit OS.

 

[jabranham]

Thanks for the reply. It doesn't look like I'm missing any libraries. I'm on a 64-bit system. EU4 is still unplayable :-(

 

[grotaclas]

Do you still get "No such file or directory" if you try to run ./eu4? There have been a few updates since you started this thread. If you changed the launch options because of my first comment, you should undo that, because that bug was fixed.
Can you post the output of "ldd eu4"?
Did you already try the usual troubleshooting steps of uninstalling/reinstalling eu4 and verifying the game files in steam? You can also post in the Technical support forum to get help from the paradox support staff.

 

[AndrewT]

You can also post in the Technical support forum to get help from the paradox support staff.

Moved accordingly.

 

[jabranham]

> Do you still get "No such file or directory" if you try to run ./eu4?

Yes

> Did you already try the usual troubleshooting steps of uninstalling/reinstalling eu4 and verifying the game files in steam?

Yes, done all that a few times.

This is the output of running ldd on the executable (removed the found ones), though installing the libraries doesn't help:

libX11.so.6 => not found
libGLU.so.1 => not found
libGL.so.1 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => not found
libz.so.1 => not found
libuuid.so.1 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => not found

 

[AndrewT]

@grotaclas I hope you ca help here because I have no clue!

 

[grotaclas]

This is the output of running ldd on the executable (removed the found ones), though installing the libraries doesn't help:

libX11.so.6 => not found
libGLU.so.1 => not found
libGL.so.1 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => not found
libz.so.1 => not found
libuuid.so.1 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => not found

Are you sure that you have the 64bit version of these libraries? If you only have the 32bit versions, you have to install the 64bit version of the libraries.

If you already have the 64bit versions, your dynamic linker can't find them for some reason. Which is weird, because some of them are used by many programs and would prevent them from running. Do you have problems running other programs? But maybe the other programs are 32bit(steam for example is 32bit on my system). Or you have a different version of these libraries. I don't know what the output of ldd would be in that case.

What Linux distribution are you using and what version of this distribution do you have?

Maybe something prevents ldd and eu4 from accessing the libraries. Are you running it in some kind of restricted mode(e.g. chroot or jail)?

Maybe something overrides where your system is looking for the libraries. Does "export |grep LD_" give any output?

Does the output of ldd change if you add the location of the libraries to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH? For example like this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/the/folder/of/one/library:/path/to/the/folder/of/another/library" ldd eu4

If ldd find the libraries that way, you can try to run ./eu4 with the same in front of the command