Bug#1090067: minetest-server: Service fails to start after install due to missing --gameid

[James Valleroy]

Package: minetest-server
X-Debbugs-Cc: jvalleroy at mailbox.org
Version: 5.8.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt13-2+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

After installing minetest-server, the server fails to start:


minetest-server.service - Minetest multiplayer server minetest.conf server config
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/minetest-server.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2024-12-15 20:27:19 EST; 8min ago
    Duration: 533ms
  Invocation: cb85a5a51f264b9e8dfbf3e836bdfe2f
        Docs: man:minetestserver(6)
     Process: 3692 ExecStart=/usr/lib/minetest/minetestserver --config /etc/minetest/minetest.conf --logfile /var/log/minetest/minetest.log (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Main PID: 3692 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dec 15 20:27:19 DebianTesting systemd[1]: minetest-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Dec 15 20:27:19 DebianTesting systemd[1]: minetest-server.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 15 20:27:19 DebianTesting systemd[1]: minetest-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 15 20:27:19 DebianTesting systemd[1]: Failed to start minetest-server.service - Minetest multiplayer server minetest.conf server config.


2024-12-15 20:27:18: ERROR[Main]: To run a Minetest server, you need to select a game using the '--gameid' argument.
2024-12-15 20:27:18: ERROR[Main]: Check out https://content.minetest.net for a selection of games to pick from and download.
2024-12-15 20:27:19: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: Supplied invalid gamespec


I was able to work around this issue by copying and modifying minetest-server.service, adding "--gameid minetest_game" to the command line options.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.10-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages minetest-server depends on:
ii  adduser              3.137
ii  init-system-helpers  1.67
ii  libc6                2.40-4
ii  libcurl3t64-gnutls   8.11.1-1
ii  libgcc-s1            14.2.0-8
ii  libgmp10             2:6.3.0+dfsg-3
ii  libjsoncpp26         1.9.6-3
ii  libleveldb1d         1.23-5+b2
ii  libluajit-5.1-2      2.1.0+openresty20240815-1.2
ii  libncursesw6         6.5-2+b1
ii  libpq5               17.2-1
ii  libspatialindex7     2.0.0-1+b1
ii  libsqlite3-0         3.46.1-1
ii  libstdc++6           14.2.0-8
ii  libtinfo6            6.5-2+b1
ii  libzstd1             1.5.6+dfsg-1+b1
ii  minetest-data        5.8.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt13-2
ii  zlib1g               1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1

minetest-server recommends no packages.

minetest-server suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 840 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/attachments/20241215/76cf9ac9/attachment.sig>