Corrupt prefix on Fallout 3 GOTY installation about modorganizer2-linux-installer

[rockerbacon]

Duplicate of #72. I'll be working on a fix over this weekend

[balajsra]

Thank you for your work! However, I am still getting issues with version 2.7.1. See output below.

lutris-mod-organizer.log

The new version is correctly finding Steam in $HOME/.local/share/Steam, but it is searching for game in library $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steam. As previously mentioned, it should be looking for the game installation in $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common.

[balajsra]

Apologies for opening this issue again, but I am still having problems installing. I tried version 2.7.2 and got the output shown below.

lutris-mod-organizer-2.7.2.log

The script finds $HOME/.local/share/Steam correctly, as in 2.7.1.

When grep is attempted, it looks for $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steam/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf and says no such file or directory.

Looking at my filesystem, I found libraryfolders.vdf in $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf.

The contents of libraryfolders.vdf are shown below:

"LibraryFolders"
{
        "TimeNextStatsReport"           "1591571589"
        "ContentStatsID"                "6832582536540301646"
}

After attempting grep, the script searches for the game in library $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steam.
The contents of this directory are:

• cached (folder)
• games (folder)
• legacydepotdata.vdf

I don't believe this is the correct folder to be looking in for APPID 22370.

Looking at find-library-for-appid.sh lines 37-43, I see that the script is attempting to look for the compatdata folder with the APPID folder inside that:

for libdir in "${steam_libraries[@]}"; do
	echo "Searching for game in library '$libdir'" >&2
	if [ -d "$libdir/steamapps/compatdata/$appid" ]; then
		echo "Found game" >&2
		break
	fi
done

Thus, I believe the error is in the setting of main_library. It gets set to $steam_install/steam which causes the other paths to become broken. This is in line 26 of find-library-for-appid.sh.

[rockerbacon]

I'm sorry for that. Progress on this one is naturally slow because I don't have a system to properly test things.

I released another fix. If it solves your problem feel free to close the issue again.

[balajsra]

@rockerbacon No worries, I understand that it can be difficult to debug without direct access to the system. I will do my best to provide information.

That being said, I tried running 2.7.3 and it seems to have fixed the previous issue of not finding Fallout 3 GOTY, but it now has a different issue.

lutris-mod-organizer-2.7.3.log

This is the error message. As suggested, I attempted wineboot -u, but it didn't fix anything.

wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned unexpanded string 'C:\Program Files' ... this can be caused by a corrupt wineprefix (`wineboot -u` may help), by an old wine, or by not owning /home/sravan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/22370/pfx

It may not be an issue with script at this point, perhaps I have not configured wine correctly. Do you have any ideas for why I might be encountering this error?

[rockerbacon]

This is exactly what the error says, a "corrupted" prefix. It's usually caused by using incompatible versions of Wine in the same prefix.

1. Purge the prefix with:

rm -rf /home/sravan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/22370

2. In Steam: make sure Fallout 3 is configured to use Proton 5 and launch it. A clean prefix will be created
3. Reinstall Mod Organizer 2

[balajsra]

I attempted the following:

1. Remove Fallout 3 GOTY compatdata folder
2. Steam -> Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition -> Properties -> General -> Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibiltiy tool -> Proton 5.0-8
3. I then ran the game and saw that the prefix was created
4. Attempted to reinstall Mod Organizer 2 and got the same error

[rockerbacon]

What's the output for ls -ld /home/sravan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/22370/pfx?

[balajsra]

Sorry for the delay, I completely re-installed Fallout 3 to see if that would resolve the issue... it did not.

ls -ld /home/sravan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/22370/pfx
drwxr-xr-x 4 sravan sravan 4096 Jun  8 12:05 /home/sravan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/22370/pfx/

I'm not sure this is the output you were looking for (-d argument). Here is the output with just -l flag.

ls -l /home/sravan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/22370/pfx
total 2716
drwxr-xr-x 2 sravan sravan    4096 Jun  8 12:02 dosdevices/
drwxr-xr-x 9 sravan sravan    4096 Jun  8 12:05 drive_c/
-rw-r--r-- 1 sravan sravan 2664356 Jun  8 12:05 system.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 sravan sravan    3358 Jun  8 12:01 userdef.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 sravan sravan  101370 Jun  8 12:05 user.reg

[rockerbacon]

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I legitimately do not know what might be causing this problem. The '-d' option was to check if the directory permissions were correct as my research suggested this could be the issue.

I renamed the issue to reflect its current status and added a "help wanted" label to see if more people will help with this issue.

[balajsra]

No worries. I'm currently playing some other games, but if I return to Fallout 3 and I am able to find a solution, I'll submit a pull request.