FA doesn't launch through FAF on Linux

aphoswro

Hi,

I set up everything for Linux according to anything I can find on the topic, including the Wiki and stickied threads in #technical-help but I cannot get my game to launch through FAF. Forged Alliance launches fine on Steam. What's weird is I hosted a bot game just fine, and my friend watched the replay. But when we tried to play, I discovered I can not join their game, or any game, or even host another game myself.

Now I am getting the following error when trying to do anything in FAF:

NotifiableException(i18nKey=game.start.couldNotStart, i18nArgs=[])
	at com.faforever.client.game.GameService.lambda$startGame$37(GameService.java:607)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniApply.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:642)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:506)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:2137)
	at com.faforever.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl.lambda$start$7(IceAdapterImpl.java:221)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/home/m/apps/faf/run" (in directory "/home/m/.faforever/bin"): error=13, Permission denied
	at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1142)
	at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1073)
	at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService.launch(ForgedAllianceService.java:136)
	at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService.startGameOnline(ForgedAllianceService.java:81)
	at com.faforever.client.game.GameService.lambda$startGame$37(GameService.java:604)
	... 5 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=13, Permission denied
	at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.forkAndExec(Native Method)
	at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:313)
	at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:244)
	at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1109)
	... 9 more

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.. thank you.

aphoswro

The highlighting on this forum post made it clear my run file needs to be executable. That fixed it. Thank you.