error 105 with recent SteamVR

[ChristophHaag]

I'm compiling with my pull request #30.

This config worked before, so presumably a SteamVR/lighthouse update broke it.

"Got error code 105" is probably the error that makes it fail.

HmdError_Init_InterfaceNotFound (105) - The specific interface function requested by VR_Init or VR_GetGenericInterface could not be found. Is the SDK being used newer than the installed runtime?

June 03 12:40:20.902 info [OSVR]: Logging for /usr/bin/osvr_server
June 03 12:40:20.902 info [OSVR Server]: Using config file osvr_server_config.vive.sample.json from command line argument.
June 03 12:40:20.902 info [OSVR Server]: Attempting to load config file 'osvr_server_config.vive.sample.json'.
June 03 12:40:20.902 info [OSVR Server]: Constructing server as configured...
June 03 12:40:20.904 info [OSVR Server]: Loading auto-loadable plugins...
June 03 12:40:20.969 info [OSVR Server]: Loading plugins...
June 03 12:40:20.969 info [OSVR Server]: Instantiating configured drivers...
June 03 12:40:20.971 info [OSVR Server]: Display descriptor found and parsed from config file.
June 03 12:40:20.971 info [OSVR Server]: RenderManager config found and parsed from the config file.
June 03 12:40:20.971 info [OSVR Server]: Triggering automatic hardware detection...
June 03 12:40:20.971 info [OSVR Server]: Registering shutdown handler...
June 03 12:40:20.971 info [OSVR Server]: Starting server mainloop: OSVR Server is ready to go!
June 03 12:40:20.971 info [OSVR Server]: Performing hardware auto-detection.
June 03 12:40:21.261 info [OSVR-Vive]: Found the Vive driver at /home/chris/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/SteamVR/drivers/lighthouse/bin/linux64/driver_lighthouse.so
June 03 12:40:21.261 info [OSVR-Vive]: Driver config dir is: /home/chris/.local/share/Steam/config/lighthouse
June 03 12:40:21.261 info [OSVR Server]: Added device: com_osvr_Vive/ViveSync
June 03 12:40:21.270 info [OSVR Server]: Sent path tree to clients.
Got error code 105
June 03 12:40:21.271 error [OSVR-Vive]: Could not start the server device provider in the Vive driver. Exiting.
June 03 12:40:21.271 error [OSVR-Vive]: Vive driver startup failed.
June 03 12:40:21.271 info [OSVR-Vive]:  Unloading to perhaps try again later.

[Balderick]

Can confirm the latest osvr-vive pre compiled binaries also crash osvr server with error 105.

[rpavlik]

Looks like some change in steamvr-1496873977, the previous stable steamvr-1495066092 apparently works fine.

The only particularly relevant change I see when looking at the grepped interface strings is IVRSystem_015 to IVRSystem_016, but I didn't think this plugin used that interface.

Here's the diff between the grepped interface strings of those two versions:

[Balderick]

Just realised both ChristophHaag and I both reported this over a week ago which means something additional to the steamvr home being added to default steam client (latest update) is going on.

I shared a steamreport.txt when I asked ValveSoftware/openvr#535 which helps to confirm the 105 crash is related too other things other than the most recent steam client update.

[georgewsinger]

Can anyone confirm that HTC Vive Controller tracking worked before this issue (i.e., with steamvr-1495066092 @rpavlik)?

[DuFF14]

@georgewsinger Yes, everything was working for me about 5 days ago.
Current workaround for me is to revert the lighthouse driver at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers\lighthouse\bin\win64

[Balderick]

@DuFF14 Can you share or point us to a copy of those older lighthouse drivers that do work?

Or did you use steamcmd to download those drivers like mncharity describes at #20 (comment) ?

[georgewsinger]

Are lighthouse drivers cross-platform (that is, would they work on linux)? If so, I second @Balderick in requesting a copy of the lighthouse drivers that work with OSVR-Vive :)

[DuFF14]

@Balderick @georgewsinger I only have the Windows driver. mncharity's solution should work or something similar. I don't know if we're permitted to distribute old SteamVR builds.

[Balderick]

Okay. Thanks for confirming.

A lot of good info in mncharity's thread just needs stitched together to make a good how to on how to get osvr-vive working with current steam client versions since we know or can workout last known stable version from dates listed at https://steamdb.info/depot/250823/manifests/ or https://steamdb.info/depot/250821/manifests/

Example For Using SteamCMD

Known-good versions can be obtained using SteamCMD. Installation should be straightforward. Then:

login <YOUR-STEAM-NAME>   # and enter password, and Guard.
app_info_request 250820
app_license_request 250820
download_depot 250820 250821 3490945749231862464
quit

For linux, that would be

download_depot 250820 250823 9183475244149741279

Notes: That's download_depot [appid][depotid][target manifestid] where the SteamVR appid is 250820. SteamVR's OpenVR Win32 depotid is 250821, and OpenVR Linux depotid is 25083. The currently recommended 2016 July 5 release has a MANIFESTID in the Win32 depot of 3490945749231862464, obtained from https://steamdb.info/depot/250821/manifests/

Once you have the downloaded files you can just change the path in the openvrpaths file (on Linux, think it's in ~/.config/openvr/) to point to where you put the corrected runtime version - OSVR-Vive parses that file, just as SteamVR's vrpathreg tool does.

Sometimes just replacing lighthouse drivers in your current steam install can be enough to workaround osvr-vive crashing osvr server with error 105

Far from the automated methods being discussed in other thread but hopefully is a workaround for using this build of osvr-vive

#30 with current steam client versions

[gfrolov]

Hi @ChristophHaag,
It appears that there has been an update to the lighthouse driver with one of the latest SteamVR update and which made it incompatible with Vive plugin, because there is a new interface added but the OpenVR SDK was not yet updated to reflect the changes.
We should be able to get it fixed, once there is a new version of OpenVR SDK released.

[Balderick]

Hi mars979

Does #30 provide the expected openvrSDK requirements for current steam versions?

or we need to wait for openvr 1.0.8?

[gfrolov]

@Balderick ,
Unfortunately it wouldn't work. Christoph mentioned in the issue that he also tried a build with #30, but it didn't work for him neither. The new interface hasn't been added to the OpenVR SDK, so we'll need to wait for a new release.

[Balderick]

Are Valve aware of our need for update?

Valve have posted and reposted that new openvr versions should all be backward compatible so that apps, drivers and plugins built with older version do not break because of new version.