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Rust (experimental) fails to launch on my linux machine (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 64-bit).

This has been the case for the last seven days, [save for yesterday when the 'stable' build worked... but then the most recent update broke it.]
Here's the rundown of the behavior when starting rust from steam: ('Play' -> 'Play Rust' -> 'Rust Configuration' -> 'OK')

With the 'opt-out of all betas' build, the game freezes at the grey "BOOTSTRAPPING...' Screen.

On all other builds, i get a black screen, a flash of grey background, then an immediate crash. This has been the case across all of the updates over the last week; except for the 'stable' build yesterday, (which worked until the latest update).

I completely removed rust, unity3d, and steam -- then re-installed -- still the problem persists.

Anyone else experiencing this??

I couldn't locate any crash log files, but i did run 'gdb' --- i will post the output if anyone thinks it will help.

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UPDATE: The game still won't start. I removed & re-installed everything again. Made sure I had the most up-to-date drivers. Results: now, all branches/builds exhibit the same behavior: Immediate crash at grey "self-test" screen. Legacy just hangs on the grey facepunch screen.

Scoured the forums, placed a couple of posts. I can see that others are experiencing this too. (But fewer than I would expect if all Linux users were affected.) Interestingly, some Windoze users reported almost identical symptoms. In most of those cases, EAC was implicated as the culprit, and some of them were able to fix the problem by either re-installing EAC, tweaking their anti-virus, or opening ports on their firewalls. This makes me think that the problem is likely with the linux implementation of EAC --( maybe using some obscure libraries via 'mono'??). I checked out an EAC forum. Here are my somewhat disheartening findings: Apparently, the eac devs can't be bothered to provide support for Linux until 'late 2015'. Hopefully, the code-wizards here at Facepunch have a fix in the works... It *would* be nice to have a bit of reassurance from the team that they are working on this¸ though. :/

EAC forum: http://easyanticheat.userboard.net/s...keywords=linux

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Having the same issue getting the New version to run. I'm running Linux Mint 17. Just wondering if i'm stuck with legacy er what.

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SOLVED: Ok, I finally got it to run! When starting rust on x86_64 arch it looks for libraries in ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Rust/rust_Data/Plugins/x86_64, doesn't find them, and then quits. I copied the .so files in the Plugins directory over into the x86_64 subdirectory with,

cp ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Rust/rust_Data/Plugins/*.so ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Rust/rust_Data/Plugins/x86_64

And voila! that did the trick!

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Glad you got it to work I'm still having trouble with mine can't seem to find the correct .so files. Pretty frustrating, any chance you know where to look in Mint?