Issues with starting a headless server on centos 7

[TheGleaner]

Hello, I did a fresh install of centos 7, then followed the the wiki.factorio.com guide to a headless server, and it went fine until the create/start part: I keep getting this error:

15.751 Error FileUtil.cpp:284: Can't remove /opt/factorio/temp/currently-playing: No such file or directory
15.751 Error Util.cpp:57: boost::filesystem::create_directory: Permission denied: "/opt/factorio/temp/currently-playing"

I am still relatively new to Linux, so does mean I did something wrong or is there a workaround I haven't found?

[DaveMcW]

Did you run

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su factorio

before trying to start it? You need to run the program while logged in as the owner of the files.

[TheGleaner]

Did you run

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su factorio

before trying to start it? You need to run the program while logged in as the owner of the files.

yes I did and when I made sure I got this no matter if I used a file I moved to it or created(where I got the first errors) using --create ./saves/newgame.zip

1.895 Error Util.cpp:57: boost::filesystem::status: Permission denied:

[TheGleaner]

When trying to load any save, created on machine or transferred to.

[factorio@Machinename]$ /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server newgame.zip
0.002 2017-07-12 09:15:32; Factorio 0.14.23 (build 25374, linux64, headless)
0.003 Operating system: Linux
0.003 Program arguments: "/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio" "--start-server" "newgame.zip"
0.003 Read data path: /opt/factorio/data
0.003 Write data path: /opt/factorio
0.003 Binaries path: /opt/factorio/bin
0.060 Running in headless mode
0.070 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
0.093 Loading mod base 0.14.23 (data.lua)
0.418 Checksum for core: 1291735968
0.418 Checksum for mod base: 786624017
1.887 Info PlayerData.cpp:57: Local player-data.json unavailable
1.887 Info PlayerData.cpp:62: Cloud player-data.json unavailable
1.891 Custom inputs active: 0
1.893 Factorio initialised
1.895 Error Util.cpp:57: boost::filesystem::status: Permission denied: "newgame.zip"

When trying to create one on the machine

[factorio@Machinename]$ /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --create ./saves/server3.zip
0.022 2017-07-12 09:24:37; Factorio 0.14.23 (build 25374, linux64, headless)
0.023 Operating system: Linux
0.023 Program arguments: "/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio" "--create" "./saves/server3.zip"
0.024 Read data path: /opt/factorio/data
0.024 Write data path: /opt/factorio
0.024 Binaries path: /opt/factorio/bin
0.100 Running in headless mode
0.123 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
0.169 Loading mod base 0.14.23 (data.lua)
0.581 Checksum for core: 1291735968
0.582 Checksum for mod base: 786624017
2.935 Info PlayerData.cpp:57: Local player-data.json unavailable
2.935 Info PlayerData.cpp:62: Cloud player-data.json unavailable
2.939 Custom inputs active: 0
2.942 Factorio initialised
2.943 Info Main.cpp:613: Creating new map /home/JAGrieger/./saves/server3.zip
19.587 Error FileUtil.cpp:284: Can't remove /opt/factorio/temp/currently-playing: No such file or directory
19.589 Error Util.cpp:57: boost::filesystem::create_directory: Permission denied: "/opt/factorio/temp/currently-playing"

It will create a .zip file, and I did check in the /opt/factorio/temp/ for currently-playing and it was not there.

[DaveMcW]

Run

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ls -al /opt/factorio

and post the results.

[TheGleaner]

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total 12
drwxrwxrwx. 6 factorio factorio 135 Jul 12 11:54 .
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root     root      50 Jul 10 20:19 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 3 factorio factorio  17 Jul 10 20:19 bin
drwxrwxr-x. 2 factorio factorio  24 Jul 12 11:54 config
-rw-r--r--. 1 factorio factorio 998 Jul 13  2015 config-path.cfg
drwxrwxr-x. 4 factorio factorio 144 Apr 19 08:20 data
-rw-rw-r--. 1 factorio factorio 925 Jul 12 11:54 factorio-current.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 factorio factorio 933 Jul 12 11:54 factorio-previous.log
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root     root       6 Jul 11 11:12 temp

[DaveMcW]

Ok, this command should fix it. Run while logged in as root.

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chown -R factorio:factorio /opt/factorio

[TheGleaner]

Ok, this command should fix it. Run while logged in as root.

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chown -R factorio:factorio /opt/factorio

still getting this on any save I try

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2.015 Error Util.cpp:57: boost::filesystem::status: Permission denied: "server1"

[DaveMcW]

As long as it fails saying it cannot find/open the savename.zip you are set! Just upload a save from your own computer and put it in the /opt/factorio/saves directory

[TheGleaner]

As long as it fails saying it cannot find/open the savename.zip you are set! Just upload a save from your own computer and put it in the /opt/factorio/saves directory

I have. I still get that error.

[DaveMcW]

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/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server /opt/factorio/saves/server1.zip

[TheGleaner]

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/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server /opt/factorio/saves/server1.zip

One problem with that: there is no file/folder there, it created a folder under home... and after adjusting that it still spits out a permission denied error.