Aisleriot solitare crashes when choosing new game from Select Game

[Jerad Hurst]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

How it started crashing for me:

1. From the help menu, choose the game-specific help
2. Minimize the help window and quickly choose a new game

When reopening Aisleriot, and again choose Select Game it is likely to crash, even with the Help window closed. When running from Terminal, I get the following upon crashing:

Backtrace:
In /usr/share/sol-games/sol.scm:
 480: 0* (if (defined? (quote card-guardian)) (letrec (# #) (catch # # ...)) ...)
 481: 1 (while (card-guardian))
In unknown file:
   ...
   ?: 2 [catch break #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure #f v>]
   ?: 3* [#<procedure #f ()>]
   ?: 4* [continue]
   ?: 5 (or (not (card-guardian)) (begin (begin) (continue)))
   ?: 6 (begin (begin) (continue))
   ?: 7* (begin)

<unnamed port>: In procedure begin in expression (begin):
<unnamed port>: missing or extra expression

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I am seeing this too with up to date dapper as of 2006/06/18.

[polpak (polpak)]

Same issue, same backtrace.

[polpak (polpak)]

Bug #49923 is a duplicate of this bug. As someone mentioned there.. If you pass --variation freecell or some other game to /usr/game/sol you can change games properly.

[Jerad Hurst (jvhurst)]

Unfortunately, for me the fix only seems to work when doing --variation freecell (klondike still crashes when skipping games). Even freecell only partially works, as it seems upon selecting the third new game from Select Game crashes Aisleriot, regardless of if it's by double-click or pressing OK.

Thanks for pointing out the other one though. I noticed it, but based on the topic I thought it was a different error :)

[Will Hayworth (whayworth)]

Also happens for me.

[Mazin (mat5000)]

Apparently this has been fixed in the CVS for gnome-games:

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/callum

You have to edit the file /usr/share/sol-games/sol.scm (around line 481) from this:

    (while (card-guardian))

to this:

    (while (card-guardian) #t)

Apparently, the card-guardian loop needs "something to chew on", else it crashes. So far the fix is working for me, and I'm happy to get my solitaire games back. :)

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I tried the above patch, and it is working great.

[Richard Hoelscher (rahga)]

This crasher was accidentally introduced in gnome-games-2.14.2... It's been patched upstream and will soon be released as gnome-games-2.14.2.1

As Mazin noticed, it's just a matter of moving that one-line patch from head to stable.

[Matthew Marshall (matthew-matthewmarshall)]

2.14.2.1 has been released, fixing this and the highscores corruption bug.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I just uploaded gnome-games 2.14.2.1 to dapper-udpates. When it has passed the moderation queue, this will be fixed.

[RichardRothwell (richard-caliban)]

Hi,
Just installed 6.06 and Aisleriot didn't work. Reinstalled gnome-games from binaries and it still crashed on changing games.

I found this stand and applied the "#t" patch - and thank you it now works, but I thought you ought to know this was still required on gnome-games 2.15.1

rgds,
Richard Rothwell