Americas Army 2.3 linux punkbuster update problem

PEETIE · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 144

When i join a server punkbuster is supposed to update automatically,Currently it says updating but never updates. Could this be a permissions problem? Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know the solution to this? It works on my windows box and gives me a progress of update in the console area but it isnt happening in linux. Does anyone know how to update pb manually in linux? Thanks in advance.

John5788 · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:09 am Post subject:

have u tried updating punkbuster through console using pbweb.x86?
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PEETIE · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 144

no i havent, im not familiar with how to do it. do you just type pbweb.x86 in console or how is it done?

John5788 · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

dashnu · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Casco Maine

or better yet

http://sh.nu/download/games/pbweb/

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perry · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

I've updated manually and it still just sits there after I've joined.. Longest I've let it go is 5 minutes, but nothing appears in the game console with any status messages. This is a new install.. first time I played it updated normally, but each time after that it's given me problems.

John5788 · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:12 am Post subject:

did u try joining a different server? sometimes maps only have say 20 slots or so, and cant support other players.
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PEETIE · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 144

thanks

perry · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:32 am Post subject:

Did you get it to work PEETIE? I'm still having problems. I can update via pbweb.x86 just fine. I've tried tons of different stuff -- different maps, emerge -C americas-army, rm -r ~/.armyops230, nearly fully servers, empty servers. ArmyOps.log doesn't show me anything of interest. Kinda at a loss.

Ard Righ · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:46 am Post subject:

Just another thought, what file permissions do you have on your pb folder ?
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perry · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:07 am Post subject:

pb from /opt/americas-army/System

[Jason] · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Lafayette, IN

The game will use the Punkbuster files from ~/.armyops230/System/pb

Copy pbweb.x86 into that directory and run it, see if that helps. The permissions on ~/.armyops230/System/pb are correct.

If you want to speed up pbweb.x86 by 1000%, try what Init-Zero posted above

perry · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:40 am Post subject:

pbweb.x86 works just fine. Noticed a new version on evenbalance.com and I was able to manually update. Went to an empty official US Army server and let it sit for 20 minutes. The only thing to appear in the console was a message telling me to try running pbweb.x86. Heh. Every 30 seconds or so it would give me the little status messages on the screen (not in the console).

Took a couple minutes for pbweb to run when there was the new update, but it goes through in like 10 seconds after that. So I guess that files are being saved in my ~/.armyops230/System/pb directory. No idea what's wrong with the game though.

Ard Righ · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

saebla · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Sweden

I've never gotten it to work updating pb ingame.
I have my armyops installed in my homedir so I do:

cd armyops/System/pb
./pbweb.x86
cp -R * ~/.armyops230/System/pb/

maybe it's only necessary to run pbweb.x86 from ~/.armyops230/System/pb/ but..
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