Hello there, there are other instances running, but on different domains and on different ports. I didn't know some friends were also running factorio. I just changed the port. They used the same port as I did and started their server inbetween me updating mine. Thanks for the tip.
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Hello there,
I updated the headless from 0.17.25 to 0.17.34 but cannot get it to start.
It's a Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS‬ linux and the previous versions worked fine. The only thing I found was "MultiplayerManager failed: Host address is already in use". But I checked via htop that no other game is running ...

Hello there again. First: Server works again!

A friend helped me with the symlink thing, but it didn't work. That is not the problem. I uploaded the files from the 0.15.40 server again and now I get a different error msg:

0.000 Error Util.cpp:62: There is no package core in /usr/share/factorio ...

Ok. I am not that good around linux to see through and pinpoint the post straight to a solution.
I still don't understand why the headless 0.15.37 ran just fine and the 0.15.40 doesn't. I didn't restart the server hardware in over a year. And it is 64bit or the 0.15.37 couldn't have worked.
Can you ...

the factorio file has no extension. its name is just "factorio"

Yes. First thing I checked. Twice. All files and folders have the same owner and group "factorio".
I run the server in a screen called "factorio-server". With "screen -S factorio_server" I create that screen. Does a screen need to have the same permissions as the process its running? I can't ...

Hello there fellow factorians. I run a factorio headless server. The last version was 0.15.37 and it was working perfekt. After the update, I replaces all files with the new ones put when I try to start the server with "sudo -H -u factorio /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server /opt/factorio ...