Louellay Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Hey. I have an rented server for 7 Days to Die, and since i updated to Alpha 18 it seems that it won't let the players connect and its stuck on initializing. When i tried to connect it, it had "Server is initializing, please wait" and it was stuck forever, then i looked at my server logs and saw this: [steamworks.NET] Could not initialize GameServer Anyone came across this issue? - Looking for help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracoPlaysGames Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 We are going to need more information. What server provider do you use? Have you attempted to contact them about this? This could be an issue where the server provider does not update the server to the newest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrokenAngel Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 I have the same issue on an ubuntu box running from my home. Have tried a complete reinstall of both 7d2d via steamcmd. Have checked ports and firewalls. Have also tried a couple of different settings in config xml. Nothing seems to get it to connect to steamworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambik Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 I have the same issue, also posted in the 'bugs' thread. *** FIXED *** see 2nd post below export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. in startup script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 The wiki misses out a core detail. In your firewall, you need to allow Steam's servers to connect to your server. They use three random ports, so you'll need to monitor your network traffic and see the connections your server attempts to make once it's loaded the map. You can find the IP's here: https://bgp.he.net/AS32590#_prefixes For my Ubuntu server hosted by Hetzner in Germany, the dedicated 7 Days To Die server tries to connect to this steam server: 162.254.196.84 so I allowed it through my firewall. If you have Ubuntu, I outlined what I did in order to find that IP: https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?127515-Ports-needed-for-Steamworks-NET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambik Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 The problem is fixed on my server. the following line was missing export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. Look at the 'startserver.sh' script that is accompanied with the install. For the past version of 7 Days it didn't seem to be necessary, but for the [A18] it does. Hope it works for you as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louellay Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Thank you Lambik for your answer, but i already had the following line. The problem lays directly on providers, so i dm'd them and they solved the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamzombie Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Wish I knew what your provider did to fix it, I'm having the same issue with my own linux server now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Wish I knew what your provider did to fix it, I'm having the same issue with my own linux server now Did you allow the Steamworks matchmaking server to connect to your server? It's not on the wiki, so you have to find it's IP manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoudenKalferas Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Thank you for this thread. My server used a custom start script that did not include this export. As soon as I added the export line, it fixed the server start up. The other gotcha was to make sure SELinux was disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Univarseman Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Where do you add the export line? I can't find anything. I shut my server down to try and add some mods to it specifically: farm2life CrosshairGoneWhile Aiming S420_SimpleUI-Compass S420_SimpleUI-CraftingQueue S420_SimpleUI--ForgeInput S420_SimpleUI-LeftHUD-BuffTimers When I went to start it back up it refused to initialize, when I removed all traces of all of the mods it continues to refuse to initialize. I'll gladly answer any questions you guys have. I also have absolutely no idea where to put that export thing, I don't have a "startserver.sh" Solved: For whatever reason when I shut down the dedicated server it didn't shutdown so therefore it was trying to use ports that were already in use. Found out when I opened task manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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