Hi,

I just bought the game and want to run it on Arch Linux. I get the following error code if I execute the `start.sh`.

>$ ./start.sh
Running Hacknet
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for System.Console ---> System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for System.ConsoleDriver ---> System.Exception: Magic number is wrong: 542
at System.TermInfoReader.ReadHeader (System.Byte[] buffer, System.Int32& position) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.TermInfoReader..ctor (System.String term, System.String filename) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.TermInfoDriver..ctor (System.String term) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.ConsoleDriver.CreateTermInfoDriver (System.String term) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.ConsoleDriver..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Console..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Hacknet.Game1..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Hacknet.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0


Any thoughts? To this point I can only find some entries in Steam forums arguing about having a Settings.txt and reducing the display resolution (which produces the same error).


Regards
hringriin

This is not an issue with the game, but rather with Mono. I found the following bug on the mono GitHub: https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/6752#issuecomment-365212655, and the workaround is to set TERM=xterm when starting the game from console. This solves the issue, and the game starts as it should.

$ TERM=xterm "~/GOG Games/Hacknet/start.sh"

Thank you very much!

I just ran into this on Fedora 32 on x86_64, running in Sawfish window manager with Konsole as the terminal. hjahre's TERM=xterm workaround did the trick. I added it near the top of start.sh so it doesn't need to be typed each time:

[code]
#!/bin/bash
#... SNIP...
# Hacknet

#;; Fix from the GoG forums:
TERM=xterm
export TERM

# Initialization
CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "... SNIP...
[/code]

Then ./start.sh works. Thanks hjahre. Haven't run into any other bugs getting past the first few challenges.

Thanks, I just edited the start.sh and replaced this:
[code]
run_game() {
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
cd game
./Hacknet
}
[/code]

to this:
[code]
run_game() {
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
cd game
TERM=xterm ./Hacknet
}
[/code]

It just changes TERM only for hacknet, not for whole system. But thank you all, now it work!