Crashes on start (Couldn't open font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-isabella/Isabella.ttf)

[Sergey Basalaev]

When started, crashes with the following stacktrace

$ magicmaze
Starting Magic Maze...
Setting up graphics...
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/graphics.rb:170:in `open': Couldn't open font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-isabella/Isabella.ttf: Couldn't open /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-isabella/Isabella.ttf (SDL::Error)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/graphics.rb:170:in `font_init'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/graphics.rb:86:in `initialize'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/graphics.rb:73:in `new'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/graphics.rb:73:in `get_graphics'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/game.rb:47:in `init_graphics'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/magicmaze/game.rb:32:in `initialize'
        from /usr/games/magicmaze:110:in `new'
        from /usr/games/magicmaze:110:in `<main>'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: magicmaze 1.4.3.6+dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Aug 22 12:34:48 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-06 (776 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: magicmaze
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-03-04 (535 days ago)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I get the same error message when attempting to start magicmaze on Ubuntu 15.04.

The bug report in Debian mentions a workaround which creates a symbolic link so that magicmaze is able to find the font in the place it expects.

# ( cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ && ln -s isabella ttf-isabella )

Briefly tried this (with sudo in front of ln) and it seems to make the game able to run at least...

[David Daynard (nardholio)]

The game files are written in Ruby, you can also edit them to change the location it looks since it's a plain text file.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

David: Yes, I didn't think about that. Thanks for the tip. :)

I prepared a small patch which I submitted to the Debian bug report. Hopefully the maintainer will take a look at it soon.

[David Daynard (nardholio)]

If there is a fix for this why is this package still buggy 3 years later in Ubuntu 18.10. This is code rot. If the package isn't being maintained it needs to be dropped.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package magicmaze - 1.4.3.6+dfsg-3

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magicmaze (1.4.3.6+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Andreas Beckmann ]
  * QA upload.
  * Set Maintainer to Debian QA Group. (See: #869294)

  [ Hans Joachim Desserud ]
  * Depend on fonts-isabella now that ttf-isabella is a virtual package.
  * Update isabella path in patch to new location,
    closes: #747046, LP: #1360075.

 -- Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:18:35 +0200