[IloveMusic]

Hello everyone, let me introduce my problem : if I will start my dota 2 server with srcds.exe it's OK.
But if I will start the server from any other env ( python or socket io ) I'm getting error and server shuts down.
How to fix that? I'm using subprocess.popen ( python 2.7 ).

Threaded logs : ( server crashes in 3-5 seconds )

PHP Code:

Opened server(27015) (threaded)
exec: couldn't exec server.cfg
Unknown command "sm_flood_time"
Unknown command "sm_reserve_type"
Unknown command "sm_reserved_slots"
Unknown command "sm_hide_slots"
Unknown command "sm_chat_mode"
Unknown command "sm_timeleft_interval"
Unknown command "sm_trigger_show"
Server is hibernating
CTextConsoleWin32::GetLine: !GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents
CTextConsoleWin32::GetLine: !GetNumberOfConsoleInputEventsAsync I/O disabled on dedicated server. 


Non-threaded logs: ( server is running )

PHP Code:

Opened server(27015) (threaded)
exec: couldn't exec server.cfg
Unknown command "sm_flood_time"
Unknown command "sm_reserve_type"
Unknown command "sm_reserved_slots"
Unknown command "sm_hide_slots"
Unknown command "sm_chat_mode"
Unknown command "sm_timeleft_interval"
Unknown command "sm_trigger_show"
Server is hibernating
Connection to Steam servers successful, Game Server SteamID [A:X:XXX:XX] (XXXX).
CDOTAGCServerSystem - adding listener
    VAC secure mode is activated.
NOTE: Not updateing item schema. Using version 8F89695F; latest version is 727BA225
GC Connection established for server version 0 


P.S. This launch scripts works perfect 4 linux systems.

[Potato Uno]

Your subprocess.Popen should have the command line parameters to launch srcds, and your working directory should be the folder where srcds is located (not strictly required but is easiest).

Do NOT use subprocess.PIPE in stdin or stdout in the Popen constructor since for some reason that never works with srcds:

PHP Code:

from subprocess import Popen
process = Popen("srcds.exe -game dota") #add any additional command line parameters here
process.wait() 


[IloveMusic]

Originally Posted by Potato Uno Your subprocess.Popen should have the command line parameters to launch srcds, and your working directory should be the folder where srcds is located (not strictly required but is easiest). Do NOT use subprocess.PIPE in stdin or stdout in the Popen constructor since for some reason that never works with srcds: PHP Code: from subprocess import Popen process = Popen("srcds.exe -game dota") #add any additional command line parameters here process.wait()

Server starts. Map changes to dota. Everything with the start script is OK. But server fails after 3-6 seconds after the start.
And PIPE works well with srcds in linux. Windows prefer to give me screw errors.

PHP Code:

dota_process = subprocess.Popen(args, bufsize=0, cwd=dota_dir+'/', stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True) 


[Potato Uno]

Try:

PHP Code:

dota_process = subprocess.Popen(args, bufsize=0, cwd=dota_dir+'/', universal_newlines=True) 


In TF2 I just use simply:

PHP Code:

Popen("srcds.exe -game tf -maxplayers 32 +sv_pure 1 +sv_lan 0 +map mvm_decoy") 


and it works fine (just the launch command only).

[IloveMusic]

Ok, it works. If I'm not using stdout I can launch server. But I'm not able to connect to it.
After this I launched server without python and successfully joined the game. Any suggestion?

[Potato Uno]

Try using subprocess.Popen to open the batch file that launches your servers, as opposed to passing in the command line parameters directly.

So for tf2, it would be:

server = Popen("tf.bat")

Where tf.bat has the srcds command line parameters all in it. Maybe you have a dota.bat file inside the same folder as steamcmd is in.

All my servers launch perfectly fine in python (and python uses multiple threads to maintain each server), so I am not too sure why it's not working for you.

[IloveMusic]

Originally Posted by Potato Uno Try using subprocess.Popen to open the batch file that launches your servers, as opposed to passing in the command line parameters directly. So for tf2, it would be: server = Popen("tf.bat") Where tf.bat has the srcds command line parameters all in it. Maybe you have a dota.bat file inside the same folder as steamcmd is in. All my servers launch perfectly fine in python (and python uses multiple threads to maintain each server), so I am not too sure why it's not working for you.

Ok, I'll give it a try, thx.