zsnes: Segmentation fault at startup on Intrepid/amd64

[Philipp Kern]

Binary package hint: zsnes

It's not exactly like #250425 (i.e. no glibc buffer overflow detection) but similar:

pkern@asterix:~$ zsnes
ZSNES v1.51, (c) 1997-2007, ZSNES Team
Be sure to check http://www.zsnes.com/ for the latest version.

ZSNES is written by the ZSNES Team (See AUTHORS.TXT)
ZSNES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
please read 'LICENSE.TXT' thoroughly before doing so.

Use ZSNES -? for command line definitions.

Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event8. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event7. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event6. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event5. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event4. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event3. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
Segmentation fault

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/zsnes
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: zsnes 1.510-2.1ubuntu1.1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: zsnes
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-13-generic x86_64

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2698830&group_id=19677&atid=119677
Note: I couldn't link to zsnes package when forwarding upstream.

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

The core dump. Somehow apport is not really able to deal with this. The proc was in tracing stop because I had it in gdb, but gdb does not give anything meaningful despite zsnes-dbgsym being installed. (Maybe dying somewhere in the x86 asm.)

[Ben M. (bmhm)]

It works when starting with -ad sdl for the first time. It happens on the wrong audio device.

[Ryan (ryan-delaney)]

I am getting this error in Jaunty x64. I have two sound cards and pulseaudio. The following command seems to have gotten Zsnes working, thanks to bmhm:

$ zsnes -ad sdl

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

This bug wasn't fixed upstream but had a workaround at http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12339. Closing with that workaround. If there are still issues please file a new bug report.