Teeworlds: Teeworlds Server fails to start (Linux)

Created on 11 Nov 2018 · 5Comments · Source: teeworlds/teeworlds

I compiled the latest source on my Linux Server(Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS | Linux 4.4.0-138-generic).
I can’t start the server cause it always fails with "[5be8123c][kernel]: ERROR: couldn't register interface storage. null pointer given"

Storage.ctf and "/data/maps" with maps is in the server directory.
Permissions should be ok cause i have the same problem with the root user.

teeworlds@FisicoSrv1:~/teeworlds/build/x86_64/release$ ./teeworlds_srv -f serverconfig.cfg
teeworlds@FisicoSrv1:~/teeworlds/build/x86_64/release$ ls
1on1.cfg 3on3ctf.cfg 5on5ctf.cfg lms.cfg serverconfig.cfg sur.cfg tlms.cfg
2on2ctf.cfg 4on4ctf.cfg data objs storage.cfg teeworlds_srv

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fixed by e117ee0ef1c329f3559fcfb64bd9b33e6adb82d2

oy on 3 Feb 2019

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Seems the path "/home/teeworlds/.local/share/teeworlds" doesn't exist or you don't have write access.

oy on 11 Nov 2018

ok thanks, "/home/teeworlds/.local/share/teeworlds" was missing. That fixed the issue for me.
But why does the Teeworlds server needs this directory?

Nothing interesting is in this folder except master.cfg

teeworlds@FisicoSrv1:~/.local/share/teeworlds$ ls
configs demos dumps masters.cfg

Fisico on 11 Nov 2018

It uses it to save stuff like configs, demos, dumps etc.

But Teeworlds should create the folder the folder in case it's missing.

oy on 11 Nov 2018

@Fisico You can also set the folder to any other writable path in context to the program with XDG_DATA_HOME=/path/to/folder teeworlds_srv. It's also possible to do that permanent globally or only for one user. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/environment_variables#Defining_variables