I’m working on an installer for Star Trek: Starfleet Command II - Empires at War and I’ve run into an issue where manually installing the game works well, but replicating those steps through the installer fails with exit code 18432.
Again, I have the game up and running through lutris if I follow these steps manually, but I’d like to offer an installer if possible.
Any assistance is deeply appreciated.
Error Reports and Logs
The file created by running lutris --submit-issue in a terminal. Link
Output of lutris -d. Kill Lutris and run lutris -d through a terminal. Reproduce your problem and share the output. Link
The installer exits with code 18432 after the initial Setup.exe is completed. If files are not removed after the installer aborts and are configured to run through Lutris, the following logs are available after launching the game:
lutris-wrapper: Star Trek: Starfleet Command II - Empires at War
Started initial process 10155 from gamemoderun /home/rob/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/rob/Games/lutris/man/starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Taldren/Starfleet Command II/StarFleet2.exe
Start monitoring process.
gamemodeauto:
fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
Exit with return code 0
N/A
EDIT: The suggestion below solved this issue for me
Started initial process 3177 from /home/rob/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/rob/.cache/lutris/installer/starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war/cdrom/Setup.exe
so verify the file exists in this folder, has correct permissions etc
Thank you for the reply and suggestion. I can confirm that the Setup.exe does exist in ~/.cache/lutris/installer/starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war/cdrom/Setup.exe. I’ve also given everything in that folder 755. Unfortunately, this has not let me proceed past the exit condition.
Started initial process 2908 from /usr/bin/bash -c find /home/rob/.cache/lutris/installer/starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war/cdrom -name 'Setup.exe'
Start monitoring process.
/home/rob/.cache/lutris/installer/starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war/cdrom/Setup.exe
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 0
DEBUG 2024-03-01 08:44:44,230 [command.on_stop:219]:Process 2906 has terminated with code 0
DEBUG 2024-03-01 08:44:45,083 [commands._monitor_task:441]:Return code: 0
DEBUG 2024-03-01 08:44:45,083 [interpreter._iter_commands:317]:Installer command: {'execute': {'command': 'ls -la $CACHE/cdrom'}}
lutris-wrapper: /usr/bin/bash
Started initial process 2915 from /usr/bin/bash -c ls -la /home/rob/.cache/lutris/installer/starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war/cdrom
Start monitoring process.
total 686260
drwxr-xr-x 6 rob rob 4096 Mar 1 08:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 rob rob 4096 Mar 1 08:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 rob rob 4096 Mar 1 08:44 API
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 46 Mar 1 08:44 Autorun.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 2633728 Mar 1 08:44 Autostart.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 600978059 Mar 1 08:44 data1.cab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 296095 Mar 1 08:44 data1.hdr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 97185453 Mar 1 08:44 data2.cab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 104 Mar 1 08:44 DATA.TAG
drwxr-xr-x 2 rob rob 4096 Mar 1 08:44 DirectX7a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 1 Mar 1 08:44 disk1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 1 Mar 1 08:44 disk2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 297989 Mar 1 08:44 _INST32I.EX_
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 27648 Mar 1 08:44 _ISDel.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 4679 Mar 1 08:44 lang.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 883 Mar 1 08:44 layout.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 rob rob 4096 Mar 1 08:44 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 2 rob rob 4096 Mar 1 08:44 MPlayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 450 Mar 1 08:44 os.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 25045 Mar 1 08:44 readme.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 165400 Mar 1 08:44 setup.bmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 34816 Mar 1 08:44 _Setup.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 71680 Mar 1 08:44 Setup.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 94 Mar 1 08:44 SETUP.INI
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 59710 Mar 1 08:44 setup.ins
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 49 Mar 1 08:44 setup.lid
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 4710 Mar 1 08:44 sfc2.ico
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 175312 Mar 1 08:44 _sys1.cab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 3905 Mar 1 08:44 _sys1.hdr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 663793 Mar 1 08:44 _user1.cab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob rob 4737 Mar 1 08:44 _user1.hdr
I should clarify that Setup.exe can run and does run. This was the case with the installer script initially.
The resulting files in $GAMEDIR are a well installed game. If I choose not to remove files after the installer aborts, I can configure Lutris to run it.
So my problem is understanding what signal Lutris is seeing in that install process to exit early. Since this is an older game that requires multiple patches and configuration to run optimally, it would be great to run past the game setup file.
Apologies for not completely describing my problem, I’ve edited the initial post to add clarity.
Thank you again for the reply and suggestions. It is appreciated.
Thank you both (@OJ1 and @legluondunet) for the help offered here and on the discord. Disabling the exit code in the wineexec task by adding return_code: 18432 allowed the installer to continue past that point and complete successfully.
