Help setting up 0.2.7.0

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:15 am

I was fooling around with the Armagetron server, and couldn't get it to show up in the master server list. I noticed that only I could see it in the master list, but from a computer outside of the network, it was not shown. I have set up port forwarding on my Actiontec M142WR router with no effect. I am running the server on Ubuntu Edgy, and as far as I know, the firewall is not blocking it.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:57 am

What is your public IP address?

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:03 am

That would be 72.89.85.39, I am running the server now.

Edit: I see it in the master server list as "Unreachable" now. At least its in the list.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:49 am

Looks like a router problem. My master server shows the normal signs of a well running server and it publishes your IP to the other masters and connected clients. But I can't custom connect (yeah, I've seen it's on a nonstandard port) and it's marked as unreachable in the browser. If it was running all the time between your post and mine, it means that your server was only accepting pings from the master it had contact with. That happens quite normally with NAT routers if port forwarding is not properly set up.
However, your server is also found on master 4, which can only happen if it was reachable from there. So maybe you just have to leave it running for a while longer.

A known current quirk: master server 2 will never have your server listed in the current setup, so clients will not get your server every time, only 3 times out of 4.

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:54 am

Ok, I'll leave it running overnight and we will see if it gets shown sometime in the morning. Thanks.

(I did, in fact, believe it was a port-forwarding problem, I have always have problems port-forwarding with this router)

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:36 am

Just to make everyone happy, I compiled and installed Armagetron version 0.2.8.2.1. I just seem to have one problem. The install went smoothly, but when I try to run the server by the "/etc/init.d/armagetronad-dedicated start" command, it says it is running, but when I check it with status, is says "Checking for service armagetronad server: Inconsistent. PIDs logged, but no service running"

-chipdip

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:39 am

It's probably crashing. Run it by hand and see what happens.

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:42 am

As in? Run it by hand? Sorry if I seem to be getting noobish by the second here, but what exactly do you mean?

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:43 am

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$ armagetronad-dedicated

You know, from a terminal.

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:44 am

Ah, of course. That just brings up the game, not a server.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:46 am

Then you typed the wrong thing.

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:46 am

I copied exactly what you wrote.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:48 am

And you got a window with the splash screen in it and all that?

Did you configure with --disable-glout?

chipdip · Post by **chipdip** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:50 am

Let me tell you, I probably screwed up there, I FIRST configured without it, THEN when I realized what I had forgotten, I configured it again with --disable-glout

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:52 am

Then you did make install? Then you typed "armagetronad-dedicated"?

It would be awfully weird if that sequence of events caused there to be a binary called "armagetronad-dedicated" that opens a window, especially since whether you noobed it or not is irrelevant, we do that sequence of events and numerous variations all the time around here.