Problem: Linux dom3 servers keep dying.

[Gandalf Parker]

Just as a test (I would NOT recommend running this way)
can root or sudo run a game?

[anotherkenlon]

Running as root has netted identical errors from two of the four games when people were uploading/downloading turns:

open("/home/kenlon/dominions3/savedgames/itwasadom3game/ftherlnd", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 x86-pae, so it's a 32 bit system. I'm running out of ideas here.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK now we are just shooting in the dark.

2 out of 4 games?
Have you checked the port numbers you used against your services list? Usually...
cat /etc/services

Or have you run netstat when it happens to see if something is kicking in on the same port?

You might even check a more complete services list such as
https://isc.sans.edu//services.html
to see if your ISP is blocking some port "for your protection". Ive had some games run into problems with that altho usually its the players ISP since Ive taken great pains to have no friendly filtering on my connections.

[anotherkenlon]

If the problem was due to something grabbing the port I'd be seeing very different errors - the strace log is pretty conclusive: The servers are dying because they can't read/write to directories and files where they have full permission.

Since the board isn't flooded with reports of dom3 failing to work properly under Linux, it has to be something about my install that's doing it. I'm going to go back to 9.10 and start over.