Not showing the Session name

[deronneal0]

After it say the server is up I ran the command to see the session name but nothing is coming back

Success! App '2430930' fully installed. Starting the ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated server... Start parameters: TheIsland_WP?listen?Port=7777?RCONPort=27020?RCONEnabled=True -WinLiveMaxPlayers=50 -clusterid=default -ClusterDirOverride="/home/gameserver/cluster-shared" Proton: Upgrading prefix from None to GE-Proton8-21 (/home/gameserver/server-files/steamapps/compatdata/2430930/) esync: up and running. Failed to read /etc/machine-id, error Invalid argument. wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely docker exec asa-server-1 cat server-files/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini | grep SessionName docker exec asa-server-1 cat server-files/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini | grep SessionName

[deronneal0]

I figured it out but its not showing up on the Unofficial list. Also when creating the Gameuser and Game.ini how do i find the fold to make them in? Is it the same folder that the Docker- Compose. yml file or somewhere else.

docker stop asa-server-1 ^C root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server# ^[[200~docker exec asa-server-1 cat server-files/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini | grep SessionName~ docker: command not found root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server# docker exec asa-server-1 cat server-files/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini | grep SessionName SessionName=ARK #476639 root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server# docker exec asa-server-1 cat server-files/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini | grep SessionName SessionName=ARK #476639 root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server#

[mschnitzer]

For the server not showing up issue, did you try this?

As for the Game.ini and GameUserSettings.ini, it is documented here how to edit both ini files.

[deronneal0]

Well damn lol. Thank you so much ! I didn't notice this wasnt checked.

As for the Game. ini and gameusersetting.ini. I cant find /var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer.

and thanks a bunch for making this and helping me. This is my first Linux gaming sever and this has helped me so much

[deronneal0]

Do I add it to the asa-server folder? There is one already in there but its saying i dont have permission to save anything or delete it.

[mschnitzer]

Can you enter the path /var/lib/docker/volumes/ on your host and run ls -l and share the output with me? You need to be root to access that directory.

[deronneal0]

root@TheBatServer:/home/deron# /var/lib/docker/volumes/ bash: /var/lib/docker/volumes/: Is a directory root@TheBatServer:/home/deron# ls -l total 44 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 01:25 asa-server drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 27 14:31 Downloads -rw-rw-r-- 1 deron deron 3602 Apr 27 14:32 Game.ini drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Public drwx------ 5 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 15:26 snap drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Templates drwxr-xr-x 2 deron deron 4096 Apr 22 14:37 Videos

[mschnitzer]

You need to put cd in front of /var/lib/dokcer/volumes, so that it becomes: cd /var/lib/docker/volumes

The output you are showing says that entering the directory failed, as bash assumes you want to run a command, as you left out the cd in front of it. Because of the switch to the other directory failed, you ran ls -l on your current location, which in your case was your home.

[deronneal0]

root@TheBatServer:/home/deron# cd /var/lib/docker/volumes root@TheBatServer:/var/lib/docker/volumes# ls -l total 40 drwx-----x 3 root root 4096 Apr 27 00:17 asa-server_cluster-shared drwx-----x 3 root root 4096 Apr 27 00:17 asa-server_server-files-1 drwx-----x 3 root root 4096 Apr 27 00:17 asa-server_steam-1 drwx-----x 3 root root 4096 Apr 27 00:17 asa-server_steamcmd-1 brw------- 1 root root 8, 2 Apr 27 13:10 backingFsBlockDev -rw------- 1 root root 32768 Apr 27 13:10 metadata.db

[deronneal0]

backingFsBlockDev is a different color if that makes a difference

[mschnitzer]

You can ignore backingFsBlockDev.

Can you access /var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer at all (as root user on the host) ? You should find the inis there. If that's not the case, what is the content of that directory?

As I said before, you need to make sure to access that directory as root user.

[deronneal0]

I Found it! and i assume i can just ass the Game.ini to this same folder?

[mschnitzer]

Yes, the Game.ini needs to be created in that directory as well. Make sure that it is owned by uid & gid 25000: chown 25000:25000 Game.ini

It sets the permissions automatically if you run docker-compose up -d again.

[deronneal0]

And i add that to docker-compose.yml file?

[mschnitzer]

No, you just put it in the same directory like the GameUserSettings.ini. The docker-compose.yml won't be touched. See this section

[deronneal0]

Awesome That you so much for helping and making this. I really appreciate all the help

[deronneal0]

Awesome That you so much for helping and making this. I really appreciate all the help you have given me

[deronneal0]

Sorry to rebug you i got the files where the need to go but now i cant get the server to start. I used docker start asa-server-1 command but it did do anything. Im i doing something wrong This is the message i get:

root@TheBatServer:/home/deron# docker-compose start asa-server-1 ERROR: Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any parent. Are you in the right directory?

    Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml, compose.yml, compose.yaml

[mschnitzer]

docker-compose commands almost in all cases require the yml to be present in the same directory, from which you are running your docker-compose commands from. In your case, it seems that /home/deron doesn't have any yml specification present.

[deronneal0]

This is where the docker file is. Im not sure what command i use to start the server

[kalewenn]

This is where the docker file is. Im not sure what command i use to start the server

You have to go in the directory where the file is, then execute your docker compose command :

cd ~/asa-server

docker-compose up -d

[deronneal0]

root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server# docker-compose up -d Starting asa-server_set-permissions-1_1 ... done Starting asa-server-1 ... done root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server# docker-compose start asa-server-1 Starting asa-server-1 ... done root@TheBatServer:/home/deron/asa-server#

Does this mean the server is up and running

[kalewenn]

This mean that the docker container is started. To check the container logs :

docker logs -f asa-server-1

You should visit https://docs.docker.com/guides/ if you are not a docker expert.

The ark server is running inside the container, to check if all is good, you have to check the ark server logs, I think that the default directory is :

/var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Logs/

[mschnitzer]

You can check whether the server is running by running docker ps. If the ASA container is shown, it is running.

But you are confusing the location of the ini files with the location of the docker-compose.yml. The docker-compose.yml can live wherever you want, but the ini files must be in the volume location /var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer.

[deronneal0]

that game ini. I put in there by mistake

[mschnitzer]

OK, so all of your questions have been answered now?

[deronneal0]

Yup! all my question have been answered

[deronneal0]

I got the server running. but for some reason when i added a few mods only 1 showed. after restarting it none of the mods showed.

[mschnitzer]

Please open a separate issue for this.