We should add a Pelican egg

[IGSteven]

We don't personally use Pelican but if someone would like to create one and do a pull request, I'm sure people would appreciate it.

[MrLuckyGamer]

https://github.com/HyberHost/gameforge-sbox-egg/pull/13

[shadowtor]

Hey

Just testing this currently and confirming that it doesnt seem to be downloading the game files via steamCMD at all
Install:

pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as offline...
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Cleaning up...
[----] Update complete, launching Steamcmd...
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work/.
Redirecting stderr to '/mnt/server/Steam/logs/stderr.txt'
Logging directory: '/mnt/server/Steam/logs'
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
[ 0%] Downloading update...
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Download complete.
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Extracting package...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Installing update...
[----] Cleaning up...
[----] Update complete, launching Steamcmd...
UpdateUI: skip show logo
steamcmd.sh[14]: Restarting steamcmd by request...
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work.
Redirecting stderr to '/mnt/server/Steam/logs/stderr.txt'
Logging directory: '/mnt/server/Steam/logs'
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1773426366
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK
Unloading Steam API...OK
'linux32/steamclient.so' -> '/mnt/server/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so'
'linux64/steamclient.so' -> '/mnt/server/.steam/sdk64/steamclient.so'

SteamCMD installation completed...

Startup:

[pelican Daemon]: Updating process configuration files...
[pelican Daemon]: Ensuring file permissions are set correctly, this could take a few seconds...
pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as starting...
[pelican Daemon]: Pulling Docker container image, this could take a few minutes to complete...
Pulling from hyberhost/gameforge-sbox-egg
Status: Image is up to date for ghcr.io/hyberhost/gameforge-sbox-egg:latest
Digest: sha256:8e2ab7126053dfa16083b434aaeab4b24fbc74a33da8c1d17135135b95f04198
[pelican Daemon]: Finished pulling Docker container image
warn: /home/container/sbox requires reseed (empty install directory) but prebaked Windows template is missing /opt/sbox-server-template/sbox-server.exe
warn: Steam compatibility loader missing at /home/container/steamcmd/compat/lib/ld-linux.so.2
warn: SteamCMD runtime probe failed; cannot run auto-update
error: SteamCMD probe failed and /home/container/sbox/sbox-server.exe is missing
pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as offline...
[pelican Daemon]: ---------- Detected server process in a crashed state! ----------
[pelican Daemon]: Exit code: 1
[pelican Daemon]: Out of memory: false
[pelican Daemon]: Updating process configuration files...
[pelican Daemon]: Ensuring file permissions are set correctly, this could take a few seconds...
pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as starting...
[pelican Daemon]: Pulling Docker container image, this could take a few minutes to complete...
Pulling from hyberhost/gameforge-sbox-egg
Status: Image is up to date for ghcr.io/hyberhost/gameforge-sbox-egg:latest
Digest: sha256:8e2ab7126053dfa16083b434aaeab4b24fbc74a33da8c1d17135135b95f04198
[pelican Daemon]: Finished pulling Docker container image
warn: /home/container/sbox requires reseed (empty install directory) but prebaked Windows template is missing /opt/sbox-server-template/sbox-server.exe
warn: Steam compatibility loader missing at /home/container/steamcmd/compat/lib/ld-linux.so.2
warn: SteamCMD runtime probe failed; cannot run auto-update
error: SteamCMD probe failed and /home/container/sbox/sbox-server.exe is missing
pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as offline...
[pelican Daemon]: ---------- Detected server process in a crashed state! ----------
[pelican Daemon]: Exit code: 1
[pelican Daemon]: Out of memory: false
[pelican Daemon]: Aborting automatic restart, last crash occurred less than 60 seconds ago.

Happy to be a test dummy with pelican eggs if you need one

[IGSteven]

Oh looks like the preseeding method didn't work.

warn: /home/container/sbox requires reseed (empty install directory) but prebaked Windows template is missing /opt/sbox-server-template/sbox-server.exe

I hadn't actually tested pelican prior as we don't personally use it as mentioned in the pull request, can take a look in the morning at the actual image.

Can you share what your folder structure looks like.

[IGSteven]

@shadowtor can you test now, we have pushed some updates.
HyberHost@f1a56ae

[shadowtor]

@IGSteven it gets a lot further this time, it has the files and such now
But, fails to start

[pelican Daemon]: Ensuring file permissions are set correctly, this could take a few seconds...
pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as starting...
[pelican Daemon]: Pulling Docker container image, this could take a few minutes to complete...
Pulling from hyberhost/gameforge-sbox-egg
Status: Image is up to date for ghcr.io/hyberhost/gameforge-sbox-egg:latest
Digest: sha256:8dcb7a8b41d9bbc0104bf5014ea6c9c2cb9b42af0fd55affccc9c616fee09897
[pelican Daemon]: Finished pulling Docker container image
[2026-04-14 06:11:12] INFO: updating S&Box server files on boot...
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work.
Redirecting stderr to '/home/container/Steam/logs/stderr.txt'
Logging directory: '/home/container/Steam/logs'
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1773426366
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK
"@ShutdownOnFailedCommand" = "1"
"@NoPromptForPassword" = "1"
Unloading Steam API...OK
[2026-04-14 06:11:17] INFO: running SteamCMD app_update for app 1892930 with forced platform 'windows'
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work.
Redirecting stderr to '/home/container/Steam/logs/stderr.txt'
Logging directory: '/home/container/Steam/logs'
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1773426366
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK
"@ShutdownOnFailedCommand" = "1"
"@NoPromptForPassword" = "1"
"@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType" = "windows"

Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK
Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 39.03 (1280225540 / 3279820782)
Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 77.56 (2543693486 / 3279820782)
Update state (0x0) unknown, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
Success! App '1892930' fully installed.
Unloading Steam API...OK
[2026-04-14 06:11:30] INFO: Starting S&Box server in Steam relay mode
[2026-04-14 06:11:30] INFO: Command: wine "/home/container/sbox/sbox-server.exe" +game facepunch.walker +hostname GGAU
[2026-04-14 06:11:30] ERROR: S&Box server process exited unexpectedly (pid=86, exit=0)
pelican@GG-AU S&Box ~ Server marked as offline...
[pelican Daemon]: ---------- Detected server process in a crashed state! ----------
[pelican Daemon]: Exit code: 1
[pelican Daemon]: Out of memory: false
[pelican Daemon]: Aborting automatic restart, last crash occurred less than 60 seconds ago.

[IGSteven]

Interesting, looks like its failing just at the point where it hands off from the entrypoint to the sandbox-server exe.

Can you share the build log inside logs.

[shadowtor]

sbox-server.log
sbox-error.log
sbox-update.log
only 3 files in logs

[IGSteven]

What happens if you restart the server again, does the logs show anything different now its been prepopulated?

wonder if pelican uses different user id (uid) and group ids (gid) from pterodactyl, when we wrote it we made sure it wasn't running as root so messed with some permissions in the image.

If nothing changes, can I get you to try stop the server, delete everything in the files and start it again.

I think the walker game mode requires a map, if you try set facepunch.flatgrass does it do anything different?

[shadowtor]

Reboot does not change anything (its killing the server when fails btw so its a fresh boot each time)

Deleted files, same error on startup once re-seed happens

Added map (was just basing off the comment to leave blank if wanting default map)

Before wipe:

before-sbox-error.log
before-sbox-server.log
before-sbox-update.log

After Wipe:

after-sbox-server.log
after-sbox-error.log
after-sbox-update.log