cube crashes

[Richard Kleeman]

Ran the game cube in a standard breezy. It crashes after some time with many
messages of the type:

write /dev/sequencer: Bad file descriptor

followed by:

Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

These problems do not occur if the program is run through aoss or if the esd
process is killed.

I have an Audigy 2 soundcard and nvdia 3d drivers installed....

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you please generate a backtrace as described on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash?

I did not see a similar report for esd, I assume the crash is somewhere in cube
itself or in SDL.

[Richard Kleeman (kleeman)]

Created an attachment (id=4052)
strace for cube

cube is not compiled with debug symbols. I tried running the program through
gdb and also through strace and the
program no longer crashed. Confirmed the original crash with updated system
(9/24/05). strace produces large output file which I have attached. Command
used was:
strace -o cube.txt ./cube_unix -w1600 -h1200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created an attachment (id=4052) [edit]
> strace for cube
>
> cube is not compiled with debug symbols. I tried running the program through
> gdb and also through strace and the
> program no longer crashed.

Ah, classic Heisenbug then. However, can you please try to build a
debugging-enabled version of cube and try again to run it under gdb?

[Richard Kleeman (kleeman)]

Martin,
Dowloaded the source but it is in a fairly basic state: only Makefiles. I tried
hand editing the Makefile to get it to work but got stuck
with this error which looks like some kind of basic c++ error. Fortran is my
forte ;-)

g++ -Wall -O3 -fsigned-char -fomit-frame-pointer -I../enet/include
-I/usr/include/GL `sdl-config --cflags` -c -o client.o client.cpp
tools.h: In constructor ‘vector<T>::vector()’:
tools.h:159: error: there are no arguments to ‘gp’ that depend on a template
parameter, so a declaration of ‘gp’ must be available
tools.h:159: error: (if you use ‘-fpermissive’, G++ will accept your code, but
allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
tools.h: In constructor ‘hashtable<T>::hashtable()’:
tools.h:234: error: there are no arguments to ‘gp’ that depend on a template
parameter, so a declaration of ‘gp’ must be available
client.cpp: In function ‘void gets2c()’:
client.cpp:289: warning: enumeration value ‘ENET_EVENT_TYPE_NONE’ not handled in
switch
make: *** [client.o] Error 1

Not sure this is worth the effort. Might be better to take this up with the cube
developer directly?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

(In reply to comment #4)

> Not sure this is worth the effort. Might be better to take this up with the cube
> developer directly?

Yes, that would be easier. Since cube is in universe and we have a lot of things
to do to fix main until Breezy releases, I'm afraid I can't be of much help
about this anyway. You can also try to file a Debian bug, the Debian maintainers
are often pretty clueful about the upstream code, too.