CK2 will not launch - Ubuntu 19.10

[atmafox]

Hello!

I've reinstalled CK2, cleared my user folder for it out, installed the package for libtbb2 just in case (was getting an error there running by hand) and a few other things -- all to no avail.

The game executable launches, doesn't crash, but hangs forever on something. I straced it and got this:

socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 23
fcntl(23, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl(23, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
setsockopt(23, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
connect(23, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(57343), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = 0
getpid() = 10995
gettid() = 10995
sendto(23, "\r\0\0\0", 4, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4
sendto(23, "\t\1\0\0\0\363*\0\0\363*\0\0", 13, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 13
poll([{fd=23, events=POLLIN}], 1, 180000) = 1 ([{fd=23, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(23, "\f\0\0\0\n", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5
recvfrom(23, "\27\0\0\202\27\0\0%\343Z\357", 11, 0, NULL, NULL) = 11
poll([{fd=23, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=23, events=POLLIN}], 1, 180000
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So I'm not really sure where to go from here. By my count, that 180000 timeout will take approximately 50 hours to time out and nothing seems to be coming back. I have tried clearing out my launchers and updating them to no avail as well.

Thank you,
-Atma

 

[AndrewT]

Does your issue look like this report?
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/game-causes-system-freeze-ubuntu-19-10.1272004/

If so that seems to be a Gnome bug and that workaround should help you.

Good luck with that!

 

[atmafox]

Nope, it doesn't even ever pop up the launcher. I never get anything displayed on my screen from it. Nothing ever freezes, either. It's like there's some resource either locally or on the internet it's trying to wait on -- judging from the port, I would guess the launcher but the launcher doesn't seem to be working (on any game) so it never gets beyond that.

 

[AndrewT]

This game does not use the new launcher that EU4, HOI4 and Stella have, so this issue is elsewhere I think - or there are two separate issues.

You can put -skiplauncher in the Steam Launch Options field to test your theory though.

Has this game ever run on this machine? Or never yet?

 

[atmafox]

It's run before, and then it just started running again so this can be closed. I'm sorry to have bothered y'all. Not sure what 'caused it, since I could run OpenGL stuff but I blame the nVidia drivers.