Can't launch game following 3.3 update [Linux]

[DocTriv]

Just as the title reads, ever since the 3.3 update I cannot start the game via the launcher. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, and I tried everything else, from a clean reinstall to updating my drivers. Any sort of help would be appreciated.

Edit: Attempted to adjust the settings following the instructions in the forum post, but I can't seem to locate the files in the location they laid out. It seems that the files aren't created or they aren't there until I load the game? I'm not sure, but there's definitely something wrong with the files following the patch.

 

[Krakatal]

Yeah, i am on Ubuntu 16.04 it doesn't work either. Tried to run it from console turns out it wants at least GLIBCXX_3.4.22 andGLIBC_2.25 neither available on Ubuntu 16.04 so their store page now lies about supporting it.

 

[DocTriv]

Yeah, i am on Ubuntu 16.04 it doesn't work either. Tried to run it from console turns out it wants at least GLIBCXX_3.4.22 andGLIBC_2.25 neither available on Ubuntu 16.04 so their store page now lies about supporting it.

I didn't even know about that. Their launcher is about as helpful as snow in your living room in telling you what the problem is. You would think they would make a launcher that would at least give you a direction as to where to go to find out what the problem is.

 

[AndrewT]

The launcher cannot diagnose why the game fails to launch - nice though that would be! They are separate apps maintained by separate teams, AND it has to support 8 games on 4 platforms and 3 OSs ... !

No doubt the new Stellaris patch was built under Ubuntu 18 or later, we've seen issues like that before under other games. Whether the requirements or the game need to be updated I'm not sure, I'll report it now. Thanks for your reports!

 

[DocTriv]

The launcher cannot diagnose why the game fails to launch - nice though that would be! They are separate apps maintained by separate teams, AND it has to support 8 games on 4 platforms and 3 OSs ... !

No doubt the new Stellaris patch was built under Ubuntu 18 or later, we've seen issues like that before under other games. Whether the requirements or the game need to be updated I'm not sure, I'll report it now. Thanks for your reports!

Thank you for responding!

 

[entheate]

Having the same problem here on Ubuntu 18.04. Error message is

$ ./stellaris
./stellaris: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by ./stellaris)
./stellaris: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./stellaris)
./stellaris: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by ./stellaris)

My installed glibc and libstdc++ are indeed older:

$ ldd --version
ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1.4) 2.27
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
$ strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep LIBCXX | tail -2 | head -1
GLIBCXX_3.4.25

I ran an apt update and those are indeed the latest in the Bionic repos. It looks like updating to Ubuntu 20.04 will probably fix it, and of course one can install newer versions of the specific packages by hand, but it's disappointing that this doesn't work out of the box on an in-life-cycle version of a major distro.

EDIT to add: I updated to Ubuntu 20.04 and that fixed it as expected. And in the long run it's probably easier than having all your base C/C++ libraries installed by hand.

 

[Felinis]

Having the same problem here on Ubuntu 18.04. Error message is

$ ./stellaris
./stellaris: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by ./stellaris)
./stellaris: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./stellaris)
./stellaris: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by ./stellaris)

My installed glibc and libstdc++ are indeed older:

$ ldd --version
ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1.4) 2.27
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
$ strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep LIBCXX | tail -2 | head -1
GLIBCXX_3.4.25

I ran an apt update and those are indeed the latest in the Bionic repos. It looks like updating to Ubuntu 20.04 will probably fix it, and of course one can install newer versions of the specific packages by hand, but it's disappointing that this doesn't work out of the box on an in-life-cycle version of a major distro.

EDIT to add: I updated to Ubuntu 20.04 and that fixed it as expected. And in the long run it's probably easier than having all your base C/C++ libraries installed by hand.

I concure - after several days of struggling to get the new patch to run under Ubantu Linux today I upgraded from Ubantu 18.04 to 20.04.
This takes about an hour.

I then changed the Stellaris beta version to "none". The Steam system downloaded the new patch and started the Paradox loader which updated and ran the new 3.3.2 Libra patch version of the game.

I find it very confusing that both PDX and Steam advertise the patch with links that do not actually download the patch, but instead run a video explaining the patch. In reality there is nowhere to download the patch from, no matter how hard you search.

Only the Paradox loader will update Stellaris and then only if you first deactivate the beta version. I used to know this back in 2019 but had to relearn it this time around. The process is not explained anywhere.

 

[AndrewT]

As you may have seen, the approach chosen was to update the official minimum requirement to Ubuntu 20.04 .

I find it very confusing that both PDX and Steam advertise the patch with links that do not actually download the patch, but instead run a video explaining the patch. In reality there is nowhere to download the patch from, no matter how hard you search.

We have not provided separate patch downloads since EU3 days, I'm afraid. They come down automatically in Steam, or by clicking Update in the PDX Dist client.

 

[Physician]

Thank you entheate! I had 18.04 and after update to 20.04 it works. (GOG version)