unable to load any saved game

[Julien Aubin]

Binary package hint: simutrans

Hi,

I've remarked that with Simutrans 102, there's no way to load a saved game.

How-to reproduce :
DO: start a game with Simutrans.
DO: save it.
DO: reload it.
EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR: game is loaded successfully.
ACTUAL BEHAVIOUR: an error occurs, message is :
"FATAL ERROR: planquadrat_t::rdwr()
Unknown ground type: -1".

Bug is reproducible with both games saved with version 102 of the game, and any previous revision.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 18 16:10:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: simutrans 102.0-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: simutrans
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gpilotd:4704): gpilotd-WARNING **: Le nombre de périphériques est configuré à 0
 (gpilotd:4704): gpilotd-WARNING **: Aucun périphérique accessible disponible
 (gpilotd:4704): gpilotd-WARNING **: Le nombre de PDA est configuré à 0
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4723): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Julien Aubin (gojulgarbmail)]

World destroyed.
Calculating textures ...FATAL ERROR: planquadrat_t::rdwr()
Error while loading game: Unknown ground type '-1'

In debugger :
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00a42422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

Unfortunately I can't see anything else since there's no debugging symbol in the simutrans build.

[Julien Aubin (gojulgarbmail)]

Bug is commented out there :
http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=2447.0

[Vachigaggl (vachigaggl)]

On October 18 a stable version came out where this bug is supposed to be fixed.
-> package should be updated to Simutrans 102.2 - stable (October 18, 2009)

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

Is it possible to get this version into a PPA or something?

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

I just did a naïve backport with a bzr import-dsc on the karmic version and then a merge-upstream from the .orig.tar.gz from debian squeeze. It built and runs and loads all my saved games just fine now!

[Ansgar Burchardt (aburch)]

Hi,

Nick Moffitt <email address hidden> writes:

> Is it possible to get this version into a PPA or something?

It is available in Lucid and for Karmic in my PPA [1]. I could upload
it to the Games Team PPA [2] as well.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ansgar-43-1/+archive/ppa
[2] https://launchpad.net/~pkg-games/+archive/ppa

Nick Moffitt <email address hidden> writes:

> I just did a naïve backport with a bzr import-dsc on the karmic version
> and then a merge-upstream from the .orig.tar.gz from debian squeeze. It
> built and runs and loads all my saved games just fine now!

Um, why didn't you just take the dsc from Debian and rebuild the
package? This way you would also get the remaining changes
(e.g. updated translations).

Regards,
Ansgar

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

Ansgar Burchardt:
> Nick Moffitt <email address hidden> writes:
> > I just did a naïve backport with a bzr import-dsc on the karmic
> > version and then a merge-upstream from the .orig.tar.gz from debian
> > squeeze.
>
> Um, why didn't you just take the dsc from Debian and rebuild the
> package? This way you would also get the remaining changes (e.g.
> updated translations).

I tried that first, but there were unmet build dependencies in my karmic
pbuilder. Tossing on a new raw upstream tarball was the quickest route.
I'll try your PPA now, though.

--
Nick Moffitt

[Ansgar Burchardt (aburch)]

Marking as fix released as the problem is reported to be solved in version 102.2 (which is in lucid).
Setting importance to "Medium" as not being able to load saved games is a regression.

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

I created a backport (https://bugs.launchpad.net/karmic-backports/+bug/538897). So if you can test it, much appreciated!