Game does not start in Linux

[dholth]

FEZ 1.12 doesn't start in SteamOS. Here's the console output and debug log.

Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 224760
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198010520836 [API loaded no]

(17:26:43.520) [FNA] WARNING : AL_SOFT_gain_clamp_ex not found!
(17:26:43.522) [FNA] WARNING : Update your OpenAL Soft library!
(17:26:43.541) [Version] INFORMATION : 1.12, Build Date : 2016-11-27 22:12:43
(17:26:43.677) [FNA] INFORMATION : IGLDevice: OpenGLDevice
(17:26:43.710) [Unhandled Exception] ERROR : System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at System.Text.Encoding.CreateDefaultEncoding () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Text.Encoding.get_Default () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.String.CreateString (System.SByte* value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, System.Text.Encoding enc) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.String.CreateString (System.SByte* value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at (wrapper managed-to-managed) string:.ctor (sbyte*)
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.OpenGLDevice.glGetString (GLenum pname) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.OpenGLDevice..ctor (Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.PresentationParameters presentationParameters, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsAdapter adapter) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.SDL2_FNAPlatform.CreateGLDevice (Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.PresentationParameters presentationParameters, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsAdapter adapter) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice..ctor (Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsAdapter adapter, GraphicsProfile graphicsProfile, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.PresentationParameters presentationParameters) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.Microsoft.Xna.Framework.IGraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.get_GraphicsDevice () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.InitializeGraphicsService () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DoInitialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at FezGame.Program.MainInternal () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Common.Logger.Try (System.Action action) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
(17:26:43.721) [FEZ] INFORMATION : Exiting.

[dholth]

Steam does allow me to switch to 1.11 MonoGame which runs.

[flibitijibibo]

Your system is not set up with a UTF8 language (en_US instead of en_US.UTF8). This usually happens with custom SteamOS installs and affects all titles using Mono 4.0 and higher.

[dholth]

Thank you. That solves the problem. Unfathomable that utf8 is still not the default everywhere 😥On Dec 30, 2016 18:07, Ethan Lee notifications@github.com wrote:Your system is not set up with a UTF8 language (en_US instead of en_US.UTF8). This usually happens with custom SteamOS installs and affects all titles using Mono 4.0 and higher.

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