A healthy ARK: Survival Ascended server prints many lines that look like errors. waiting for rcon connection... with connection refused, Steam Subsystem initialized: FAILED and ProtonFixes ... WARN all appear on a normal start. The server is fine when it reaches Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join.
Lines you can ignore
| Line | Why it is normal |
|---|---|
waiting for rcon connection... | The panel's console waits for the game to open its admin port. It repeats until the game is ready. |
cli: auth: rcon: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:27020: connect: connection refused | The same: the game has not opened the port yet. |
cli: auth: rcon: rcon: read packet size: ... i/o timeout | The game is still loading and does not answer yet. |
ProtonFixes[...] WARN: Skipping fix execution. We are probably running a unit test. | ARK: Survival Ascended has only a Windows server, so it runs through Proton, which prints this. |
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. | From Steam's download tool. No effect. |
Please use force_install_dir before logon! | From Steam's download tool during the update check. No effect. |
flock /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor ... failed. errno = 13 | The game tries to read hardware details it is not allowed to. No effect. |
LogCFCore: Warning: Couldn't load mods library from disk | Normal when no mods are listed. |
Steam Subsystem initialized: FAILED | Ascended does not use Steam for this. The next line, EOS ownership validation initialized: Success, is the one that counts. |
../tier0/threadtools.cpp (3113) : Failed to set thread local value | Printed while the server shuts down. No effect. |
Lines that do matter
[PlayNHost] The ARK server process stopped on its own; restarting the server.: the game ended by itself and the panel restarted it. See ARK: Survival Ascended server problems and fixes.[PlayNHost] The default admin password is never used: this server's is in the file .pnh-ark-admin (Files). Set your own under Settings.: not an error. It shows only when Admin Password holds the shared placeholder word instead of a password of its own, so the server used a random one from that file. Type a password of your own in Admin Password and restart: How to become admin on your ARK: Survival Ascended server.
The lines that mean ready
Server: "<your Server Name>" has successfully started!Waiting commands for 127.0.0.1:27020 (or type :q to exit): the badge turns Online.Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join.: players can find it.
The Errors and Warnings filters at the top of the Console pick lines by words, so they show most of the lines above. More on the Console: How to use the Console on your ARK: Survival Ascended server.
