DiRT Rally fails to Launch [Arch][Tumbleweed]

[xpander69]

Having an issue with Dirt Rally, It worked fine few days ago. Now im getting this:

/mnt/SSDGames/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/DiRT Rally/bin/DirtRally: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2-2.0.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
'DiRT Rally' quit with error code '127'.
If possible, launch Steam from command line to check the output when 'DiRT Rally' is run.
Then, contact support@feralinteractive.com with details of the output, as well as your Steam System Info.
GameAction [AppID 310560, ActionID 2] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
>>> Adding process 2902 for game ID 310560
>>> Adding process 2904 for game ID 310560
>>> Adding process 2911 for game ID 310560
>>> Adding process 2917 for game ID 310560
>>> Adding process 2918 for game ID 310560
Generating new string page texture 370: 256x256, total string texture memory is 3.96 MB

Game removed: AppID 310560 "DiRT Rally", ProcID 2901
shadercachemanager/shadercacheimplnvidia.cpp (112) : Assertion Failed: App 310560 has more than one NVIDIA disk cache instance!
Assert( Assertion Failed: App 310560 has more than one NVIDIA disk cache instance! ):shadercachemanager/shadercacheimplnvidia.cpp:112

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1502839813)
crash_20170820192627_25.dmp[2947]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20170820192627_25.dmp

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System info:

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Unknown
Model: Unknown
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor
CPU Family: 0x17
CPU Model: 0x1
CPU Stepping: 0x1
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3900 Mhz
16 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
"Arch Linux" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 4.12.1-2-hz
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11903000
X Window Manager: Metacity (Marco)
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-beta-release_2017-07-24

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.59
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 119 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1b81
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Desktop Resolution: 4480 x 1440
Primary Display Size: 23.50" x 13.23" (26.97" diag)
59.7cm x 33.6cm (68.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 8192 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Nvidia GPU 83 HDMI/DP

Memory:
RAM: 32175 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 2815659 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 352451 Mb
VR Headset: None detected

Recent Failure Reports:

What i have tried to fix this problem so far?

• Verified Game files
• Tried launching Steam stable version as well as beta version with and without native runtime.
• Tried to delete Nvidia's GL Cache from $HOME/.nv/GLCache

Still same problems

[xpander69]

Ok it seems its the SDL2 issue.. i wonder why it cannot open that file, its bundled with the Dirt Rally and i see it in the folder there.

[xpander69]

Update.

Seems all feral games have this issue. i mean every game reports different missing .so file but i tested: Hitman, Mad Max, F1 2015, Alien Isolation... all have similar crash and just different .so file is reported to be missing, though i see those files bundled with the game..

Other non-feral games seem to be not having this issue.. is there something wrong with the paths on my system?

[xpander69]

Ok, fixed it with a workaround. added this to the steam launch options

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/xpander/Games/Steam/steamapps/common/DiRT Rally/lib/x86_64/" %command%

now it works. But why doesnt it work like that by default is beyond me

[mdiluz]

Hi @xpander69, cheers for the report and workaround.

So our games find those libraries by using the ELF RPATH attribute, you can see this here:

$ objdump -x bin/DirtRally | grep RPATH
  RPATH                $ORIGIN/../lib

This means even a raw ldd outside the steam runtime should find them, like so

$ ldd bin/DirtRally | grep SDL2-2
        libSDL2-2.0.5.so => /opt/steam/steamapps/common/DiRT Rally/bin/../lib/x86_64/libSDL2-2.0.5.so (0x00007f8d2e52b000)

Unfortunately, I'm testing this on Arch updated this morning and our steam games are running fine, so I'm unsure what the issue is on your end, could you share the output of the above commands?

[xpander69]

yeah seems to be my system then.

xpander@arch /mnt/stuff/xpander/Games/Steam/steamapps/common/DiRT Rally/bin $ ldd DirtRally | grep SDL2-2
	libSDL2-2.0.5.so => not found

i have no idea why though. have to investigate. i do use testing repos of arch though, maybe something is screwed up there.

full ldd -r log

https://pastebin.com/jMP8Vjxc

[mdiluz]

Thanks for looking into it further.

Let me know if you find anything out - issues like these can be early warning signs of future breakages on more stable repos.

[mdiluz]

Hi @xpander69, did you find the cause here?

[xpander69]

Hi, no i did not :( someone in GOL forum said that he have had this issue also in the past.

[mdiluz]

Worth noting this also appears to be happening in raw Tumbleweed installations

[mdiluz]

@xpander69 to get you gaming now, it looks like a workaround is to move the contents of DiRT Rally/lib/x86_64/ into DiRT Rally/lib/. It appears something about ld's automatic addition of the $PLATFORM variable to RPATH isn't working quite as expected.

[xpander69]

Thanks. Confirming it works that way.
i added symlinks to DiRT Rally/lib/

[mdiluz]

Cheers, could you also run this command and paste the output?

LD_DEBUG=libs ldd bin/DirtRally

[xpander69]

now it works :)

https://pastebin.com/FqHyvZ02