[Bug]: vhserver update error "[ FAIL ] Updating vhserver: Checking remote build: SteamCMD"

[historical-theology]

User story

Fresh Valheim server installation with LinuxGSM in Debian 12. Running ./vhserver update yields this error message.

Game

Valheim

Linux distro

Debian 12

Command

command: update

Further information

This issue was just mentioned in a separate issue thread by @jaumebecks:

#4588 (comment)

It is not isolated to my own setup.

Relevant log output

[ FAIL ] Updating vhserver: Checking remote build: SteamCMD

Steps to reproduce

No response

[Aquato]

The same here.
On Satisfactory Server.
It is not necessarily the update function, as the check for update function is also affected and is certainly part of the update function.
The Steam version cannot be accessed, it seems.

[irobot73]

Same for most of the servers I run (PW, PZ, VH, SDTD).

Simply run SteamCMD manually & seems to work as expected

steam_upd.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/app/*server stop
steamcmd +runscript /data/steamcmd.txt
/app/*server start

steamcmd.txt

force_install_dir /data/serverfiles
login anonymous 

// https://steamdb.info/app/{Steam_Dedi_Id}
//app_update {Steam_Dedi_Id} validate //-beta latest_experimental //{depot_id}

quit

[Aquato]

If you address the server with the parameter fu "force update" it also works manually. But it's all inconvenient and takes time.

[majorpdd]

Same here for insurgency server

[freaky-m0]

It seems to me that steamcmd no longer provides the necessary information.

vhserver@gameserver:~$ steamcmd +login user password +app_info_update 1 +app_info_print 896660 +quit
Redirecting stderr to '/home/vhserver/.local/share/Steam/logs/stderr.txt'
Logging directory: '/home/vhserver/.local/share/Steam/logs'
[  0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
UpdateUI: skip show logoSteam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1733269577
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK
Logging in using username/password.
Logging in user '15_tatsache' [U:1:123456789] to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK
No app info for AppID 896660 found, requesting...
vhserver@gameserver:~$

From lgsm/modules/core_steamcmd.sh // fn_update_steamcmd_remotebuild():

remotebuildversion=$(${steamcmdcommand} +login "${steamuser}" "${steampass}" +app_info_update 1 +app_info_print "${appid}" +quit | sed -e '/"branches"/,/^}/!d' | sed -n "/\"${branch}\"/,/}/p" | grep -m 1 buildid | tr -cd '[:digit:]')

From log/steam/appinfo_log.txt:

[2024-12-13 21:14:03] Client version: 1733269577
[2024-12-13 21:14:03] ThreadedReadFromDisk: loading appinfo cache from: /home/vhserver/.local/share/Steam/appcache/appinfo.vdf
[2024-12-13 21:14:03] ThreadedReadFromDisk: header version: 0x7564429
[2024-12-13 21:14:03] ThreadedReadFromDisk: apps updated: 181
[2024-12-13 21:14:03] CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 5 milliseconds to initialize
[2024-12-13 21:14:05] RequestAppInfoUpdate: AppIDs 7
[2024-12-13 21:14:06] Change number 26635879->26635881, apps: 0/2, packages: 0/0
[2024-12-13 21:14:06] Requesting 2 apps, 0 packages (meta data, 1024 prev attempts, expected 0 KB)
[2024-12-13 21:14:06] GetValidPlatforms: skipping platform entry  macos for app 18010
[2024-12-13 21:14:06] Requested 1 app access tokens, 0 received, 1 denied
[2024-12-13 21:14:06] UpdatesJob: finished OK, apps updated 0 (0 KB), packages updated 0 (0 KB)

[AndrewSav]

It seems to me that steamcmd no longer provides the necessary information.

We can confidently say that the old way does not work. I do not think you can blanketly judge "that steamcmd no longer provides the necessary information". Perhaps it changed, or perhaps the devloper need to come with an alternate way of doing this to fix the issue. For example we can see that this latest build id number is still publicly available here: https://steamdb.info/app/1690800/depots/?branch=public (I'm giving the satisfactory example, because this is the game server I have problems with) so it would be reasonable to assume there are working ways to retreive it.