Cannot enable mods in Paradox Launcher [Linux]

[mercav]

I'm on Linux and have not been able to reliably enable which mods are being used through the launcher on either EU4 or Stellaris.

Both games are being launched through steam.

When I try to enable mods, it shows them as enabled, but if I close the launcher or lanch a game, then it reverts the changes I made.

Creating new playlists doesn't change anything.

 

[AndrewT]

That's not a known problem with either game, that I've seen anyway. Has this always been the case for you,or is used to work?

Are these mods subscribed in the Steam Workshop or the Paradox mod site? Or local files?


Could you please do the following? It will generate a debug log that the launcher team can use to "deep dive" into what actually happens with the launcher.

Right click the game in question in Steam > Properties > Launch Options
Paste in this: --pdxlDebug
Run the game
Once it fails to launch, locate the logs in the following place depending on your platform:

Linux:
$XDG_DATA_HOME/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/logs/ (if $XDG_DATA_HOME is set)
~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/logs/ (if $XDG_DATA_HOME is not set)

 

[mercav]

I can't tell you exactly when it started but it has been weeks/months and the mods are from Steam Workshop.


The games have been launching fine, if you discount the issue with the mod enabling/disabling issue.

 

[AndrewT]

Seems like the issue is somethign to do with where Steam is storing the mods:

2024-08-09T10:46:32.973Z (pid:7310) error [ModsStorageV0]: Failed to extract mod descriptor with an error BaseError: Unable to extract descriptor from directory: Cloning mod descriptor with update failed: Reading dir failed: Cannot read dir: ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/281990/683230077: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/281990/683230077'

Does that folder exist?
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/281990/
Can the Linux user that Steam is running as, get full read/write permissions to those folders?

 

[mercav]

I needed to move Stellaris back to my main drive for that because the mods were at: [drive name]/SteamLibrary/steamapps/workshop/content/281990 in that HD and ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/ was completely empty.

After moving it, the folder exists and is full of the mods I subscribed to. The user also has full read/write perms. It hasn't help.

 

[AndrewT]

Is that error gone now? Can we get new logs please?

 

[mercav]

It still has not been working.

 

[AndrewT]

No errors in those logs now, so that's some progress.

When I try to enable mods, it shows them as enabled, but if I close the launcher or lanch a game, then it reverts the changes I made.

Is this still the situation? Or it has changed in any respect? Because I don't see mods referred to at all in those logs now.


Not sure this is relevant but EU4 and Stellaris seem to be installed in different places?

--gameDir /mnt/76a476e6-346f-4698-893e-cf16d2f5c95f/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Europa Universalis IV`
--gameDir /home/eric/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Stellaris

Have you tried mods with both games now?


And, is your Steam installation from flatpack or Snap, perhaps? If so, You need to use the native Linux client from Valve:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
"Install Steam Now"

 

[mercav]

Is this still the situation? Or it has changed in any respect? Because I don't see mods referred to at all in those logs now.

It was me trying to activate some mods.

Not sure this is relevant but EU4 and Stellaris seem to be installed in different places?

Have you tried mods with both games now?

They are in different drives. I have issues with both of them.

And, is your Steam installation from flatpack or Snap, perhaps? If so, You need to use the native Linux client from Valve:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
"Install Steam Now"

I am using Nobara; its Fedora based and Steam came installed. It also does not support .deb and I cannot try to install it using the file from your website because of that.

 

[AndrewT]

I see. This issue may not be solvable on that distro, I suspect! Only Ubuntu is supported, strictly speaking.

But perhaps @Deuterium Oxide can shed some more light on this from those logs you've posted.