ULX & ULib not working (at all)

[Bumbanut]

I have installed the latest ULX and ULib (from the SVN) onto my server (placed the ULX and ULib folders into the addons folder), restarted the server, updated the FastDL, restarted the server again and joined. The console command 'ulx' does not work, nor any of its sub-commands like 'ulx slay' or 'ulx bring' (says "Unknown command "ulx""). Basically, ULX does not work for some reason. It appears that I have installed it correctly. Is anyone else getting this sort of error? If so, or even if you aren't getting it, it would be great if you helped me fix it, it's pretty annoying.

[JamminR]

Really sounds like it wasn't installed, or errors out during start up.
During server start up, any errors about it loading (or not loading) in server console?
And when you say 'from the SVN', you mean github.com's version of it, right?

Additionally, it's probably not good to copy addons to a server with it running.
Any manual file changes, not just addons, are not recommended when a server is running.

[Bumbanut]

The SVN is the Github, that is correct. Would you recommend I install the non-SVN version to see whether it works? I'll do that right now and get back to the thread.
Nope, doesn't work at all. There are seemingly no ulx or addon-related errors.

Can you walk me through all of the steps of installing ULX and ULib? Perhaps I missed something when following the guide or something.

[JamminR]

This.
Then perhaps;
7. Make sure you grabbed ULib too. (ULX won't start without it, and that guide only shows the ulx svn repository path as an example...more exists 'up the chain')
8. Shut down server.
9. Ftp, or if your host has a web panel uploader, the two folders you just checked-out to your servers <gmod server root>/addons/ folder.
9.5. Add yourself as superadmin to your <gmod server root>/cfg/users.txt for good measure.
10. Restart server. (cache rebuild)
11. Shut down.
12. Upload your <gmod server root>/cache folder to fast dl.
13. Restart server.
14. Have fun.

If that isn't working, and you don't see any errors, I'm clueless as to why it isn't working.
It's working for 100s of others.

[sorrensen]

wouldent work untill i copied these files garrysmod/addons/Ulib/data/ulib all of those files and copy them over to garrysmod/data/ulib (if ulib folder isn't there make one same with ULX)
and ULX  addons/ulx/data/ulx to garrysmod/data/ulx

[JamminR]

Sounds like the user your server runs under doesn't have write access to your gmod/data folder...if this is the case, Ulysses projects won't be the only issue you experience troubles with.

[Megiddo]

There's some issues with file reading at the moment, JamminR. We were working around one of Garry's earlier file system bugs, which has a partial fix now. We recently removed our work around and it exposed some new bugs in Garry's file system API.

We're going to create our own file system wrapper (sick of dealing with this utter ridiculousness), but we haven't got to it quite yet. We have a temp workaround in that should work in the mean time (fixes what sorrensen was experiencing, anyways), but if you hear about file problems in the future, it may be on us.

[JamminR]

Ugh. Not really on us now though.
I blame garry.
Either way, I was partially right, file issues.