Running on Raspberry Pi2 and learning some BASIC Linux

Hi all,

I came to this website from the Raspberry Pi website board post about running a MUD on the Raspberry Pi. I used to play on a CircleMUD back in 1995 called EliteMUD, so I really like that someone was still working with the old CircleMUD code and updating it, and I figured I'd try it out, if only to reminisce about the old MUD and show my kids how it worked.

I'm a complete Linux newbie so you'll have to forgive if I'm missing something basic.

So far I have:

- logged in as pi
- downloaded the 3.66 zip file into the home/pi directory
- changed to a SU shell: sudo -s
- unzipped the file
- gone into the new tba directory and run ./configure (which seemed fine)
- done the cd src; make and read and accepted the terms
- watched the compiler do its thing after accepting the terms
- gone back up a level to the main directory
- entered ./autorun &

So at this point, I get a session number pop up, something like: [1234]

and then nothing else happens, and I get a CRASH log that has a lot of "file not found" error messages in it.

If I got into bin and ./circle the third line is a FATAL error data directory not found or something along those lines.

I have a feeling I'm missing a fundamental step. Any ideas?

Much appreciated,

Regards,
Criz.

Ok, thanks Rumble! If I use bin/circle I get the following, which doesn't seem to generate a syslog.CRASH file:

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/tbamud-master# bin/circle
No etc/config file, using defaults: No such file or directory
Using file descriptor for logging.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Loading configuration.
May 12 20:39:43 :: tbaMUD 3.66
May 12 20:39:43 :: Using lib as data directory.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Running game on port 4000.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Finding player limit.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Setting player limit to 300 using rlimit.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Opening mother connection.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Binding to all IP interfaces on this host.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Boot db -- BEGIN.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Resetting the game time:
May 12 20:39:43 :: No time file 'etc/time' starting from the beginning.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Current Gametime: 3H 2D 6M 729Y.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Initialize Global Lists
May 12 20:39:43 :: Initializing Events
May 12 20:39:43 :: Reading news, credits, help, ihelp, bground, info & motds.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Loading spell definitions.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Loading zone table.
May 12 20:39:43 :: 187 zones, 10472 bytes.
May 12 20:39:43 :: Loading triggers and generating index.
May 12 20:39:44 :: Loading rooms.
May 12 20:39:44 :: 12468 rooms, 1296672 bytes.
May 12 20:39:44 :: SYSERR: Format error in roomflags/sector type of room #2
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/tbamud-master#

If I try the ./autorun & and this happens:

pi@raspberrypi ~/tbamud-master $ sudo -s
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/tbamud-master# ./autorun &
[1] 6046
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/tbamud-master# ls
autorun bin config.status log vms_autorun.com
autorun.amiga changelog configure macrun.pl
autorun.cmd cnf doc README.md
autorun.pl config.cache lib src
autorun.sh config.log LICENSE.md syslog.CRASH
[1]+ Done ./autorun

And I get a syslog.CRASH file that looks like this:

autorun starting game Tue May 12 20:43:09 EDT 2015
running bin/circle -q 4000
nohup: ignoring input
No etc/config file, using defaults: No such file or directory
May 12 20:43:09 :: Loading configuration.
May 12 20:43:09 :: tbaMUD 3.66
May 12 20:43:09 :: Using lib as data directory.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Running game on port 4000.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Finding player limit.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Setting player limit to 300 using rlimit.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Opening mother connection.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Binding to all IP interfaces on this host.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Boot db -- BEGIN.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Resetting the game time:
May 12 20:43:09 :: No time file 'etc/time' starting from the beginning.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Current Gametime: 6H 2D 6M 729Y.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Initialize Global Lists
May 12 20:43:09 :: Initializing Events
May 12 20:43:09 :: Reading news, credits, help, ihelp, bground, info & motds.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Loading spell definitions.
May 12 20:43:09 :: Loading zone table.
May 12 20:43:09 :: 187 zones, 10472 bytes.
May 12 20:43:10 :: Loading triggers and generating index.
May 12 20:43:10 :: Loading rooms.
May 12 20:43:10 :: 12468 rooms, 1296672 bytes.
May 12 20:43:10 :: SYSERR: Format error in roomflags/sector type of room #2
Quick boot mode -- rent check supressed.
Using file descriptor for logging.
autoscript terminated Tue May 12 20:43:10 EDT 2015

I like to run it on java.
I drink the java while watching it run

Just as an update, I got it running on my laptop fine with 3.66 and Cygwin, just wondering why I'm getting that error message on the RPi2 - I'll try a full re-install tonight and I'll post the config files too.

Looks like I get the same error - just less rooms in the line above:


root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/tbamud-master# bin/circle -m
No etc/config file, using defaults: No such file or directory
Running in minimized mode & with no rent check.
Using file descriptor for logging.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Loading configuration.
May 14 22:34:46 :: tbaMUD 3.66
May 14 22:34:46 :: Using lib as data directory.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Running game on port 4000.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Finding player limit.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Setting player limit to 300 using rlimit.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Opening mother connection.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Binding to all IP interfaces on this host.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Boot db -- BEGIN.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Resetting the game time:
May 14 22:34:46 :: No time file 'etc/time' starting from the beginning.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Current Gametime: 23H 31D 8M 729Y.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Initialize Global Lists
May 14 22:34:46 :: Initializing Events
May 14 22:34:46 :: Reading news, credits, help, ihelp, bground, info & motds.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Loading spell definitions.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Loading zone table.
May 14 22:34:46 :: 3 zones, 168 bytes.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Loading triggers and generating index.
May 14 22:34:46 :: Loading rooms.
May 14 22:34:46 :: 111 rooms, 11544 bytes.
May 14 22:34:46 :: SYSERR: Format error in roomflags/sector type of room #2

You try a new copy of the code (or at least of the /lib files)? Sure seems like something is whacky.

If I was in your situation I'd try:

-Re-download the codebase
-You can add some more output to the syslog to find out what is causing the error (it is in the function void parse_room(FILE *fl, int virtual_nr), in db.c).
-You can look at index.mini in the lib/world/ directory to see what zones load with the -m flag, and then check those individual room files for formatting errors

Good luck man, sorry it has been a headache so far for you :)

Ok - I made some headway - firstly after running in mini-mode, and deleting room#2 from the 0.wld file, I got a string error on the 30.mob file, character #3002 (the midgaard grocer). So I replaced the 30.mob file with the same one from stock CircleMUD and tbaMUD finally booted! Don't know if this makes sense to anyone or not, but hopefully it's useful to someone lol.

Switch back to standard circle boot, I got more .wld file errors in different places, so I suspect I'd continue to get them at different places and could probably just copy all the stock zones and mob files from circle and it would be fine. Wonder if there's a problem or something not functioning after tbaMUD compiles on the Rpi2 that's not allowing to recognize certain flags?

Yes I have to say it seems to be running well with the stock circle mud, and seemed fine when I had tbamud running too. Obviously I haven't hit it with more than and handful of connections. It also runs Minecraft regular server and pocket server versions decently too, drawing distance on those is somewhat limited, but for $35 it does the job!

I really hope you mean 35 dollars per year? :P

If you mean per month you should be demanding excellence!

I meant the cost of the raspberry pi itself!

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Bump... has any headway been made here?

I'm having the same issues, and can't get tbaMUD to boot without stripping everything down and running with no areas.
Would enjoy being able to properly try out the mud!

Constant errors just like above, if I remove the offending parts from the mob, zone or whatever - a new one just comes up further down the line.

As I said - I can make it run, but with basically %20 of the included files.

As much as I can, I have tried to debug scientifically, yes.
I followed the thread. I've googled as much as I can. I've tried
removing the *room* that throws the error. Then the one after that,
and again. Then began on the mobs that threw an error. And again.
Ad nauseum.

As of now, I have it running, sort of. After removing 7 world files and 14 mobs.
As I said, it would just be nice to use all of tbaMUD, and not just the stuff that
happens to work. Fresh install of os, fresh install of tbaMUD. Compiler errors about
variables that are set, but not used (a lot of them), then this problem.

As far as I can tell, it's a problem with the way the actual mud reads those files,
as the same issues tend to happen with stock Circle files. So as much as I would
like to go through and fix all the incorrect parts, I could more easily get a different
base that will run properly on ARM.

I'll just use it broken and fix it myself. At least I can guarantee a working
product that way. Thanks!