Quake live connection error

Silverwing · 2010-09-18 08:36:25

Hi fellow archers,

I have a problem with quake live (www.quakelive.com). When I login, the plugin loads and then I get a connection error.

We're sorry, but it appears you are having problems connecting to the QUAKE LIVE network. If you are behind a firewall you must make sure that it permits the following connection:

Protocol: TCP
Host: xmpp.quakelive.com
Port: 5222

The port is open on my hardware firewalls, and I don't have a software firewall installed. I can play quake live from both ubuntu and windows 7, which use the same local IP address.
Firefox outputs the following:

$ firefox
CONNECT_THROTTLE - Connect()
CONNECT_THROTTLE - Connect()

I tried to remove the plugin and installed data (~/.quakelive and the plugin in the ~/.mozilla folder) serveral times, but it doesn't fix the problem.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

655321 · 2010-10-02 00:58:44

More or less the problem Im having, it loads, the display screen gets weird with squares and stuff like that (like it isnt rendering good) and then I get an error but dont know what it is cause I cant read it.

I think it might be flash or flash-related

loafer · 2010-10-02 08:18:21

@655321, your problem is different. Quake Live plugin still uses libpng 1.2. There are aur packages for libpng 1.2.

Sorry Silverwing but I do not know what could be causing your problem.

655321 · 2010-10-02 17:31:36

loafer wrote:

@655321, your problem is different. Quake Live plugin still uses libpng 1.2. There are aur packages for libpng 1.2.
Sorry Silverwing but I do not know what could be causing your problem.

You are totally right, firefox output shows an error concerning libpng, will try it out and come back with results!

Firefox spams this warning while trying to load game:

libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.24
libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.4.3
libpng warning: Incompatible libpng version in application and library

However, the following libpng packages appears installed on my system:

extra/libpng 1.4.3-1
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files
local/libpng12 1.2.44-1
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files

So i already have libpng 1.2, the problem still lies in the libpng version I think, (Ihave 1.2.44 and quake live needs 1.2.24). I cant find the AUR for this package but nothing shows or its under a different name, can you point out which one is the correct package to install?

pacman -Ss outputs this:
extra/libpng 1.4.3-1 [installed]
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files
multilib/lib32-libpng 1.4.3-3 [installed]
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files
(32-bit)
aur/devkitppc-portlibs-libpng 1.4.1-1 (1)
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files
aur/k3d-libpng.patch 0.8.0.1-1 (0)
k-3d is a complete free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation and
rendering system.
aur/lib32-libpng12 1.2.44-1 (271)
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files
(32-bit)
aur/libpng12 1.2.44-1 [installed] (1677)
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files
aur/libpng-old 1.0.2-2 (13)
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files,
builds libpng.3, libpngpf.3 and libpng.so.2 (libpng.so.2.1.0.2)
aur/mingw32-libpng 1.4.3-2 (30)
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics

EDIT: In case this version is not available on the AUR I can write the PKGBUILD (never done it but I would like to learn ) in order to help other peple. That version is available under the libpng-stable tree here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/

Last edited by 655321 (2010-10-02 18:08:09)

loafer · 2010-10-02 20:07:42

Maybe you'll just need to compile it. Changing the pkgver and URL from an existing PKGBUILD may be enough.

Last edited by loafer (2010-10-02 20:23:00)

655321 · 2010-10-03 02:39:03

loafer wrote:

Maybe you'll just need to compile it. Changing the pkgver and URL from an existing PKGBUILD may be enough.

Ok will do. Did you erased info on this post? I have a completely different thing from the subscription email(something about pointing out the library to firefox), can I try that?

Cheers

@Silverwing

Do you have iptables installed?

Last edited by 655321 (2010-10-03 02:49:42)

droog · 2010-10-03 03:06:49

@655321
There was another thread about this somewhere, after installing libpng 1.2 you will have to run firefox like so

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng12.so /usr/bin/firefox

I copied an alias from the thread and put it in my zshrc

alias quakelive='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng12.so /usr/bin/firefox http://www.quakelive.com'

Then just run quakelive to start firefox when I want to play quake.

Last edited by droog (2010-10-03 03:11:14)

655321 · 2010-10-03 06:38:37

Thanks!!!!! that did the trick runs perfeclty now

Arch Linux

#1 2010-09-18 08:36:25

Quake live connection error

#2 2010-10-02 00:58:44

Re: Quake live connection error

#3 2010-10-02 08:18:21

Re: Quake live connection error

#4 2010-10-02 17:31:36

Re: Quake live connection error

#5 2010-10-02 20:07:42

Re: Quake live connection error

#6 2010-10-03 02:39:03

Re: Quake live connection error

#7 2010-10-03 03:06:49

Re: Quake live connection error

#8 2010-10-03 06:38:37

Re: Quake live connection error

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