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Avernum: Escape from the pit doesn't launch anymore :(


Gleb

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Hello,

 

I got Avernum: Escape from the pit from steam a few days ago, and everything was going well, but today it just doesn't launch - I click the launch button in the steam window, and a popup comes up saying "Preparing to launch Avernum: Escape from the Pit", and it then it blinks the word "starting..." for a fraction of a second in the game list, and then nothing happens. Everything was working fine yesterday. I vaguely remember it downloading some sort of an update for Avernum, I wonder if it's relevant?

 

I'm using a Mac with Lion.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you guys broke your game just now frown

 

I'm using OSX Snow Leopard (v. 10.6.8), and I've had no technical problems with Avernum: Escape from the Pit so far. Then today in the morning (April 20), it just stopped launching. I tried launching it from Steam, but it didn't work; so I restarted Steam, tried again, still no go. Then I restarted my computer and tried again, and still didn't work. Then I tried to run the game from [username]/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/avernum escape from the pit (where Steam stores the game on OS X), but I got the same deal: The Avernum: EftP icon bounces a bit on my dock, then the application just quits. Trying to load it this way, I even got a "Avernum quit unexpectedly" error message.

 

Then I figured my installation might be corrupted, so I backed up my save files from [username]/Library/Application Support/Spiderweb Software/Avernum Saved Games, asked Steam to Delete Local Content, re-downloaded the game, and it still won't launch. I once again tried to restart Steam, launch the game manually, restart my computer and try again, but to no avail.

 

Please fix this! smile

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I am having the same problem. I am playing the mac version on steam and it worked fine until this morning. Though the logs make me wonder if this is a steam issue...

 

Possibly relevant info:

 

4/20/12 8:20:54 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] Failed to create Service pipe

 

4/20/12 8:20:54 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] Failed to connect to Steam Service

 

4/20/12 8:20:54 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] Failed to load Steam Service

 

4/20/12 8:20:54 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] ServiceStart: failed to start

 

4/20/12 8:20:54 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] Game update: AppID 208400 "Avernum: Escape From the Pit", ProcID 2226, IP 0.0.0.0:0

 

4/20/12 8:20:55 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'

 

4/20/12 8:20:55 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] roaming config store 2 saved successfully

 

4/20/12 8:20:55 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[89] ([0x0-0xd70d7].com.spiderwebsoftware.Avernum[2226]) Exited with exit code: 254

 

4/20/12 8:20:58 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] Game removed: AppID 208400 "Avernum: Escape From the Pit", ProcID 2226

 

4/20/12 8:20:59 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'

 

4/20/12 8:20:59 AM [0x0-0xcb0cb].com.valvesoftware.steam[2156] roaming config store 2 saved successfully

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This happened to me as well. I tried all the usual Steam fixes but nothing worked. Eventually I gave up, uninstalled Steam, deleted its folder in ~/Library/Application Support and started over. The game launches fine now.

 

This is not a great fix - you will have to download all your games again - but it seems to work in a pinch.

 

Edit - here's a link to the Steam page describing the uninstall on Mac, you just drag the app to the trash and trash the Steam folder in your local user's Application Support folder:

Removing and Reinstalling Steam on a Mac

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This is really frustrating... it is possible to get the game to work again, but the solution ain't pretty. Here goes.

 

As Mopizappuu and ElPee said before me, the first step is to delete Steam from your Applications folder, then delete the Steam folder on [username]/Library/Application Support

 

After that, download Steam again. Do not, I repeat, do NOT let Steam update from now on; I'll elaborate in a bit. Download Avernum again. Halfway through the download, I got this prompt:

 

"Steam - Self Updater

A Steam client update has been downloaded. Would you like to restart Steam now to apply the update?"

 

Close that window.

 

You may get another message soon after, which says:

 

"Steam - Restart required

Thank you for participating in the beta on Steam.

The beta has now ended - please restart Steam to return to the current release."

 

Hit Cancel.

 

Now, you're free to play Avernum: EftP again. However, there's a catch. The game will only launch properly from Steam. From this point on, you cannot quit Steam. If you quit the Steam application, then the next time you launch it, it will automatically update at startup, and you won't be able to launch Avernum again. If that happens, you'll have to repeat this whole process.

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Unfortunately it still isn't working for me. frown

 

I'll try to play around with it some and see if i can coax it to launch...

 

EDIT:

 

Attempting to launch it directly doesn't work either:

 

4/21/12 12:36:32 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[109] ([0x0-0x19019].com.spiderwebsoftware.Avernum[208]) Job appears to have crashed: Illegal instruction

 

4/21/12 12:36:33 PM ReportCrash[211] Saved crash report for Avernum[208] version 1.0.1 (1.0.1) to /Users/**********/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Avernum_2012-04-21-123633_***************.crash

 

Short version of crash log:

 

Process: Avernum [208]

Path: /Users/************/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/avernum escape from the pit/Avernum.app/Contents/MacOS/Avernum

Identifier: com.spiderwebsoftware.Avernum

Version: 1.0.1 (1.0.1)

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [109]

 

Date/Time: 2012-04-21 12:36:23.677 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Report Version: 6

 

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 com.spiderwebsoftware.Avernum 0x0000244e _GLOBAL__I_boat_start_locations + 0

1 dyld 0x8fe0d31a ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 246

2 dyld 0x8fe0d3cd ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 61

3 dyld 0x8fe024a9 dyld::initializeMainExecutable() + 134

4 dyld 0x8fe0794e dyld::_main(macho_header const*, unsigned long, int, char const**, char const**, char const**) + 4189

5 dyld 0x8fe018b1 dyldbootstrap::start(macho_header const*, int, char const**, long) + 779

6 dyld 0x8fe01057 _dyld_start + 39

 

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):

eax: 0x00000002 ebx: 0x8fe0ec8c ecx: 0x8fe44840 edx: 0x8fe44840

edi: 0x0000244e esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbfffd678 esp: 0xbfffd60c

ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x0000244e cs: 0x00000017

ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

cr2: 0x0000244e

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

 

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