Startup Issue with ARK: Survival Ascended - Mods cause the server to stop

System Information

Field Value
Operating System Linux - Debian GNU/Linux 12 on x86_64
Product AMP ‘Callisto’ v2.5.1.8 (Mainline)
Virtualization QEMU_KVM
Application ARK: Survival Ascended
Module GenericModule
Running in Container No
Current State Failed

Problem Description

Issue

When setting up a new instance of ASA the server refuses to start with the Enable mods toggle turned on, it worked before the new update but now doesn’t work at all.

All other options so far seem to work fine but this one causes the RCONN to not connect. Will include logs in a followup to this ticket.

Reproduction Steps

  • Configured the server
  • Switched on the use mods toggle under configuration>asa
  • server refuses to start up and times out two times.

Log as followls

[06:36:57] [RCON:admin Error/23] : Source RCON failed to connect:
Connection refused.
[06:36:57] [RCON:admin Info/23] : Source RCON disconnecting…
[06:36:58] [RCON:admin Info/23] : Source RCON disconnected
[06:37:02] [API:admin Activity/23] : Changing setting Meta.GenericModule.mods to False
[06:37:03] [Generic:admin Info/23] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:03] [Generic:admin Info/23] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:03] [Generic:admin Info/23] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:03] [Generic:admin Info/23] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:03] [RCON:admin Error/8] : Source RCON failed to connect:
Connection refused.
[06:37:03] [RCON:admin Info/8] : Source RCON disconnecting…
[06:37:04] [RCON:admin Info/8] : Source RCON disconnected
[06:37:08] [API:admin Activity/18] : Changing setting Meta.GenericModule.modslist to 929420,929868,928793,1007609,928824,959391,1056795,961162,1050566,1013622,965961,970540,972484,1058624,916922,927131,926259,914844,978862,929684,983782,972253,928597,953154,968943,931874,951148
[06:37:08] [Generic:admin Info/18] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:08] [Generic:admin Info/18] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:08] [Generic:admin Info/18] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:08] [Generic:admin Info/18] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:09] [RCON:admin Error/8] : Source RCON failed to connect:
Connection refused.
[06:37:09] [RCON:admin Info/8] : Source RCON disconnecting…
[06:37:10] [RCON:admin Info/8] : Source RCON disconnected
[06:37:12] [API:admin Activity/22] : Starting the application.
[06:37:12] [Generic:admin Info/22] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:12] [Generic:admin Info/22] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:12] [Generic:admin Info/22] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
[06:37:12] [Generic:admin Info/22] : Merging config file ./ark-sa/2430930/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini (INI format) using Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.
fsync: up and running.
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.

[06:37:15] [RCON:admin Error/30] : Source RCON failed to connect:
Connection refused.
[06:37:15] [RCON:admin Info/30] : Source RCON disconnecting…
[06:37:15] [Core:admin Warning/22] : Slow method invocation: Start took 3101ms to complete.
[06:37:15] [Core:admin Warning/22] : Slow response: Core.Start took 3102ms to complete.
[06:37:16] [RCON:admin Info/30] : Source RCON disconnected
2024.10.18
.Doughnut [UniqueNetId:00021e1196894aefb9d529fd0eef0872 Platform:None] joined this ARK!

This can be closed I have resolved the issue, was a problem on my end.

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