Pingus in Lucid crashes with ALSA output

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek]

Binary package hint: pingus

I use Lucid with ALSA backend (instead of PulseAudio). When I start Pingus with ~/.pingus directory removed, the program crashes immediately, printing this:

$ pingus
Error: DictionaryManager: Couldn't find LanguageDef for '', leaving current dictionary unchanged
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/levels/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/levels/dist
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/themes/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/savegames/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/images/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/cache/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/demos/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/backup/
Successfully created: /home/mgol/.pingus/screenshots/
Welcome to Pingus 0.7.2!
========================
data path: /usr/games/../share/games/pingus/data/
language: English (en)
font encoding: iso-8859-1
sound support: enabled
music support: enabled
resolution: 800x600
fullscreen: disabled

SavegameManager: Parser problem: Couldn't open file '/home/mgol/.pingus/savegames/savegames.scm'.
Unable to initialize SDL_Mixer: No available audio device
Pingus: Unknown throw caught!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pingus 0.7.2-4ubuild1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 29 05:47:46 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
SourcePackage: pingus

[Gabriel Rota (gabriel-rota)]

can you see if you have libsdl1.2debian-alsa installed (follow command to install it)
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2debian-alsa

for use alsa in Lucid you have remove pulseaudio ? if not you can try to install support (follow command to install it)
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

I'm on Maverick now and I have libsdl1.2debian-all installed and it works correctly now.