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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 770

Football Manager 2014 not running anymore.

It's been a little while since I played FM 2014 - but only a matter of months. I tried launching it again yesterday and it failed. If I run from the command line I get:

GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to ProcessingInstallScript with ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingCloud with ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingControllerConfig with ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to ShowNoControllerConfig with ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to SiteLicenseSeatCheckout with ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to CreatingProcess with ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to CreatingProcess ""
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp continues with user response "CreatingProcess"
/bin/sh\0-c\0/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=231670 -- '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/fm'\0
Game process added : AppID 231670 "/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=231670 -- '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/fm'", ProcID 4272, IP 0.0.0.0:0
chdir /home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
GameAction [AppID 231670, ActionID 3] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/fm: symbol lookup error: /home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/liblibberkelium.so: undefined symbol: __res_search
Game process removed: AppID 231670 "/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=231670 -- '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/fm'", ProcID 4272
Uploaded AppInterfaceStats to Steam

I'm guessing the key line is: /home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/fm: symbol lookup error: /home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/liblibberkelium.so: undefined symbol: __res_search, but I can't be sure.

I looked the game up in the game specific wiki page and it only says not to run on XFS or Reiserfs. I'm on Btrfs - which isn't mentioned.

Any tips on getting this to work?

wannabenoname

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Registered: 2023-09-23

Posts: 1

Re: Football Manager 2014 not running anymore.

Hi!

I'm getting the same error and would like to make it work.
Based on what have seen searching the internet, the main problem is in this line:

/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/fm: symbol lookup error: /home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 2014/liblibberkelium.so: undefined symbol: __res_search

Why wouldn't it be finding the __res_search symbol?

PD: Looks like this symbol is included in the libc library. https://codebrowser.dev/glibc/glibc/res … res_search

Last edited by wannabenoname (2023-09-23 12:26:10)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,976

Re: Football Manager 2014 not running anymore.

Switch to Glorious Eggroll for the Steam compatibility tool and that will likely work: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Use ProtonUp-Qt to easily manage compatibility tools: https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt

(Running the Windows version of the application can be a solution instead of an older Linux version.  Windows-games in general are now handled good-enough with Proton and Glorious Eggroll.)

Last edited by headkase (2023-09-23 13:31:26)