Server failing to start

[artdevgame]

Hi 👋🏻

My server was running fine (on RPI4) until this morning. Looking at the logs I see:

Error: file is not found (check BOX86_PATH)

I've tried rebuilding the server locally on my mac using this repo and see the same issue. I also get a little more info:

Error: File is not found. (./valheim_server.x86_64)

I think it might be an issue with either steamcmd or box86 but I'm unsure. Could you take a look for us please, hopefully you can recreate the issue fairly easily.

[artdevgame]

At some point I see the error:

qemu-i386: Could not open '/lib/ld-linux.so.2'

So I try running some suggested commands:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt-get install libc6:i386

I notice a warning:

Unable to determine CPU Frequency. Try defining CPU_MHZ.

So I fix that with:

export CPU_MHZ=2500

I jump onto the box with a bash shell and try to run steamcmd.sh directly, it craps out with:

Fatal error: futex robust_list not initialized by pthreads

Looking for more info on that, I think this is relevant, but I don't see a solution:
ptitSeb/box86#976, possibly downgrading box86/64?

[artdevgame]

I noticed some args we can pass in the docker-compose file, but they don't seem to have any affect (always installs the same latest version):

- BOX86=0.3.8 #default,latest,version-number
- BOX64=0.3.2 #default,latest,version-number

In the container:

root@48d8b5bff422:/# box86 --version
Box86 with Dynarec v0.3.8 ee0c949b built on Jan  5 2025 01:18:11

root@48d8b5bff422:/# box64 --version
Dynarec for ARM64, with extension: ASIMD AES CRC32 PMULL ATOMICS SHA1 SHA2 USCAT FLAGM FLAGM2 FRINT PageSize:4096 Running on - with 10 cores
Will use hardware counter measured at 24.0 MHz emulating 3.0 GHz
Params database has 99 entries
Box64 with Dynarec v0.3.3 5fa65a4b built on Jan  5 2025 06:49:29

I'm using it with:

docker compose up -d --build

[artdevgame]

This command only lists the latest version, so could explain why the version in BOX64 (0.3.2) isn't been applied:

root@6d4cd36981bd:/# apt-cache policy box64-rpi4arm64           
box64-rpi4arm64:
  Installed: 0.3.3+20250105.5fa65a4-1
  Candidate: 0.3.3+20250105.5fa65a4-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.3+20250105.5fa65a4-1 500
        500 https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/debian ./ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3.3+20250104.4065e61-1 500
        500 https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/debian ./ Packages

Edit: Seems like something is wrong with the list site:
https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/

Actually, I'm not sure the wanted logic is working as intended in the repo. How should that work if we want to use a specific older version?

[julianfere]

Hello! recently I have also had problems with the image on my raspberry pi 4 I found a possible solution to my problem but I can not test it because it seems that the values of the environment variable box64 are not being taken into account since I try to configure it and ends up grabbing the latest version.

The guy on the subreddit ended up installing the version of box64 he needed and running the server by hand without the container. It would be great to find a solution to this problem to be able to use the container.

Reddit thread