monsterz game does not start

[Albert Astals Cid]

Installing monsterz and running it i get

tsdgeos@bluebox:~$ monsterz
/usr/share/games/monsterz/monsterz.py: could not open data from `/usr/share/games/monsterz'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/games/monsterz/monsterz.py", line 1984, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/games/monsterz/monsterz.py", line 1973, in main
    data = Data(sharedir)
  File "/usr/share/games/monsterz/monsterz.py", line 322, in __init__
    semi_grayscale(self.shaded[i])
  File "/usr/share/games/monsterz/monsterz.py", line 112, in semi_grayscale
    p[:] = (val + r) / 2, (val + g) / 2, (val + b) / 2
ValueError: matrices are not aligned for copy

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

I can not confirm this bug, please see the screenshot I have attached. I also ran it from the terminal.

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

What release of Ubuntu are you using? I tried this in Feisty and it worked.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

I think the problem might be i'm using a 64 bit arch machine, i tested at work, 32 bit machine also with Kubuntu 7.04, and it worked there

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Albert, thank you for comment. I wonder if it fails to build from source in a 64 bit environment.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

What do you mean build from source? As far as i know python apps are not compiled.

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

You are correct Albert...hmm I will have to think about this tomorrow.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I can confirm this on an up-to-date gutsy amd64 system. The sources build locally, but the resulting binaries continue to exhibit the problem even after rebuild.

[cysurfer (tadams2)]

I'm experiencing the same issue on 64-bit Fedora 7

[agent 8131 (agent-8131)]

A quick fix for monsterz on amd64 systems is to comment out lines 112 and 133.

http://ubuntumagnet.com/2007/10/quick-fix-game-monsterz-amd64-systems

# change line 112

    * from: p[:] = (val + r) / 2, (val + g) / 2, (val + b) / 2
    * to: # p[:] = (val + r) / 2, (val + g) / 2, (val + b) / 2

# change line 133

    * from: p[:] = (m + r) / 2, (m + g) / 2, (m + b) / 2
    * to: # p[:] = (m + r) / 2, (m + g) / 2, (m + b) / 2

[Roby Gamboa (regamboa)]

Hi, folks:

I've been able to confirm both that it's a 64-bit problem, and that the proposed fix returns the application to a runnable state. I'm running FC7 on a 4-way AMD Opteron 64 (I know, I know, it's overkill for Monsterz, but I've got to have something to do while the builds are running... :-)

[agent 8131 (agent-8131)]

I can confirm that this bug has still not been fixed in Hardy beta.

[STudo (rekvalmer)]

Using Ubuntu Hardy RC 64bit. And this problem is still there.

[Mjules (mjulien-m)]

problem fixed upstream by this commit :

http://sam.zoy.org/monsterz/msg00091.html

http://sam.zoy.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/monsterz.py?root=monsterz&rev=137&r1=135&r2=137

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed in intrepid.

[Giuseppe Pennisi (giupenni78)]

Not fixed in Hardy. I can't start the game.

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