Startup Issue with Source Dedicated Server - Unable to Start Garry's Mod: Unable to Run

[Mike]

Source Dedicated Server won't start on Debian 12+ / Ubuntu 20.04+

For any users who are finding that Source based games such as CSGO, Gmod and others won’t start on Debian 12 or newer versions of Ubuntu, find bin/libgcc_s.so.1 in your instances data under the srcds directory and rename it to libgcc_s.so.1.old - the server should then start as normal. This is caused by the game shipping with a version of libgcc that isn’t compatible with these distributions. By renaming it, the server will instead use the version installed as part of your OS, which will allow …