Battletech on Solus

synthsncats

I downloaded and installed Battletech 1.9.1 through minigalaxy. As it was starting up and went through the developer screen logos, the game suddenly went "black" with a "press esc to skip" on the upper left hand corner of the screen, but nothing happens. I had to manually power down and restart my Macbook Pro to exit out of it.

After doing a quick search, I noticed there was a "fix (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/battletech-crash-on-startup-linux.1413661/)" this problem, by going into "BATTLETECH/BattleTech_Data/Plugins/x86_64/libc.so.6" and removing "libc.so.6", but doing this actually made Solus unusable (i.e., login loop screen, CLI mode 'ALT + control + F2' rendered useless). Luckily, I was able to revert back by using a live solus iso usb by using gnome disk to move "libc.so.6" back to where it originally was. If I had deleted the said file, I can just imagine the huge headache of potentially reinstalling solus. TL/DR Is there a reason why "libc.so.6" makes solus unusable when removed from a game folder?

Staudey

Are you sure you didn't somehow accidentally remove the system libc.so.6 from /usr/lib/? Because that is one of the most important files in your operating system.

synthsncats

Staudey I'm very certain. I even recreated the problem and fixed it along the way (for solus, not the game). Moving libc.so.6 from the game folder to my home folder is a BIG no no, because it conflicts with solus, but if I move it to another place like "Desktop" or rename the file, it's all back to normal. So now I'm back to square one with this darn game not working ha ha.

Staudey

Oh, I see, so the problem was that all applications were using the libc.so you moved out of the game folder instead of the system's own. Though I'm surprised they'd load libraries directly from your home folder.

So if I understand you correctly, when you move libc.so.6 out of the game folder (to a save location 😀 ), Battletech still won't launch? Does it show the same issue you originally had or is something different?

Teggs

I had this happen subsequent to game version 1.6x. The thread for the solution is https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/battletech-black-screen-after-initial-credit-logos-linux.1312273/

Basically, they added a dependency on libbsd which kept the intro from playing and therefore blocked the entire game. Solus does not install that library by default, but it is in the Software Center. If that is the issue, installing libbsd will fix.