Problem database
On this page, we try to collect several problems players or devs came across while trying to run UH in various environments and the solutions we found.
- Remove your settings file (#Settings)
- Command line users can alternatively do:
unknown-horizons --restore-settings
This is a warning that you get when logging is turned off, just disregard it.
Your OpenAL configuration tries to load pulse before the sound driver you actually use.
Edit the drivers= line in the config file (usually found in /etc/openal) and put your sound system on pole position in the list.
- Currently, a master server is used to set up games. Your router might not support 2 players joining from the same network.
- You can circumvent this by using your own master server and then connecting to it
(a more convenient GUI-only version of this is planned but not implemented yet):
./server.py -h <your-ip> -p <any-port>- now start UH asunknown-horizons --mp-master=<server-ip:server-port>
Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "C:\Program Files\Unknown Horizons\horizons\gui\modules\playerdataselection.py", line 79, in set_color
self.gui.findChild(name='selectedcolor').background_color = Color[color_id]
File "C:\Program Files\Unknown Horizons\python\lib\site-packages\fife\extensions\pychan\properties.py", line 65, in __set__
color = fife.Color(color.r,color.g,color.b,color.a)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'r'We have no idea how this happened, but your settings file contains a weird ColorID. Replace the 0 in this line with a 1:
<Setting name="ColorID" type="int"> 0 </Setting>Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/fife/fife.py", line 55, in _swig_getattr
raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: getSoundClipManagerYou're using FIFE older than 0.3.4 which is incompatible with our release. Please uninstall any older FIFE versions in your system (package manager!) and install 0.3.4 either from source or as nightly build.
Traceback (most recent call last):
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NameError: global name 'InitializationError' is not definedUpdate FIFE to current svn revision (unless you are currently following our source install guide) and remove older FIFE versions from your system. Make sure you also remove the ones installed through your package manager!
Please replace your file Unknown Horizons/horizons/util/yamlcache.py with the contents of this
[patched yamlcache.py] (https://raw.github.com/gist/2630130/4f236a3ae0ec7f5d9d6a7e97df9886c83d0197d1/horizonsutilya)
Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.x/lib/python2.x/locale.py", line 435, in _parse_localename
raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8In the "advanced" tab in Terminal's preferences, uncheck "Set LANG environment variable on startup"
Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/fife/fife.py", line 3531, in createFont
return _fife.GUIChanManager_createFont(self, *args)
RuntimeError: _[SDLException]_ , SDL reported something bad :: Fatal Error when
loading image into a SDL_Surface: Unsupported image formatThis is caused by an old FIFE somewhere in your system. If you compiled the recent FIFE sources from svn, try removing the package fife-python from your system. If you use the latest FIFE release: Sorry, that's not compatible with current UH HEAD anymore. Please check our homepage for a guide on how to compile the svn sources.
To fix it, please install [cPython] (http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/python-2.7.2.msi) to C:\python2
and copy the contents of it to your unknown horizons installdir into the python folder Python27/
This is a known bug with some older ATI drivers and newest FIFE. To solve, locate <Module name="FIFE"> in your settings file (#Settings) and add these two new entries:
<Module name="FIFE">
<Setting name="GLUseFramebuffer" type="bool"> False </Setting>
<Setting name="GLUseNPOT" type="bool"> False </Setting>
</Module>If that fails, find the following line near the top of the settings file:
<Setting name="RenderBackend" type="str">OpenGL</Setting>Change it to:
<Setting name="RenderBackend" type="str">SDL</Setting>If you have graphical glitches [like this one] (http://6g6.eu/sih-graphical-glitches-windows), please install the last offical driver for your graphic card from the manufacturer's website.
Quite annoying, but there's a commit missing in the last FIFE release.
To fix this, add 1024x600 to the list of valid resolutions; see [this commit] (http://fife.trac.cvsdude.com/engine/changeset/3800) for the details. No rebuild of FIFE is required!
Alternatively, do not open the settings dialogue and directly edit #Settings ;)
This is probably a bug in the translation you are using (we currently know of the danish translation that has this bug). To solve this, please play in english. You have to edit the settings.xml file manually to fix it.
- Open your settings.xml (Where is it: #Settings)
- Change the line
<Setting name="Language" type="unicode">YOURLANGUAGE/System Default</Setting>to
<Setting name="Language" type="unicode">English</Setting>- Save the file
There is a bug related to updating old settings file. This is the most likely cause for UH 2011.2 not starting. The command line output contains something like this:
Updating settings.xml to the default, it is missing the entry: ($entry) for module unknownhorizons
Traceback (most recent call last):
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AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'show_popup'The fix is explained in detail here: [Fix in the forums] (http://forum.unknown-horizons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=197)
Remove your old settings file: C:\Users\USERNAME\.unknown-horizons\settings
A new settings file with default values will be generated by the next start of Unknown Horizons.
Traceback (most recent call last):
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AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'enet'- Download the missing file
enet.so(depends on your architecture and OS) from our repository: https://github.com/unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons/tree/2011.1a/horizons/network - Copy it (with root permissions) to the proper path:
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/horizons/network/***/enet.so
If you saved the game during the tutorial, quit and then loaded it again the tutorial will not advance any further. This has been fixed in the development version and will be fixed with the next release.
- Play the tutorial in one try. We're sorry for not noticing this bug earlier :(
- Check out #865 including comments for the latest information
- (This line can appear during the build process, resulting in an error shortly thereafter.)
- This usually means swig is missing, installing it should fix the issue.
This is the last part of a crash caused by our YAML cache being in a messed up state.
Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shelve.py", line 223, in __init__
Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag), protocol, writeback)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/anydbm.py", line 85, in open
return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
error: (22, 'Invalid argument')Delete yamldata.cache in the same folder as your #Settings to fix it.
