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Source engine got an update on Friday that broke GMod. Foolish of them to update it when they don't even work the weekends... Garry has released an update to them early Saturday but it is likely that the game will not work until Monday, when Valve is assumed to be back to work.


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"Client.dll init () in library client failed
Saturday, December 18, 2010 by Garry Newman

I’m aware that this has been happening for the last 6 hours, since Valve updated the engine. I’m going to head into the office right now to look into it and see if I can get a patch to fix it.

This is the cost of being on the newest version of the Source engine. It’s going to happen sometimes. But I’d rather have a days downtime every 6 months than be on a 2 year old version of the Source engine. I hope you agree. I’ll edit this post with updates as I get them.

09:18 – Got into the office. Looking into the issue.
09:24 – Apparently mdlcache is NULL. Uh-oh. Merging code with Valve’s latest.
09:56 – Merging code. It’s slow shoving code about on SVN.
10:07 – Chatting in the steam chat while I’m waiting – join it here
10:18 – 200 people in chat, it’s unchattable. Merging code now, going well so far.
10:37 – Merge was successful, committing, then I’ll try to compile it, then fix any errors. Then hopefully we should be ready.
10:38 – PC is compiling fine – mac is complaining: “ld: library not found for -l-liconv”
11:21 – After much head scratching – I think I have fixed the OSX build. Testing now.
11:41 – SVN version should work properly now
11:52 – Waiting for OSX build to complete
12:09 – .. and I’m done! I’ve done everything I can. It’s in Valve’s hands now. I’ve emailed everyone I know there to tell them there’s an update that needs to go out but I don’t know whether they work on a Saturday. Wish they’d let us push our own updates out! Oh well, fingers crossed that it fixes everything!"