Games swell-foop and lightsoff both segfault in 11.04

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

I recently upgraded to the 11.04 beta on my eeePC 1005HA netbook; I decided to try the games swell-foop and lightsoff since these were inoperable in 10.10 until very recently (the programs ran but did nothing). A fix was released - the attachment from #12 in bug #626016 has these games up and running under 10.10 on my desktop.
I expected this fix to get pushed through to 11.04 but the situation is now worse than before - if I try to launch either game, I get a segmentation fault + core dump.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: swell-foop 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 5 11:20:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-games
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-04 (1 days ago)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about it at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Actually, swell-foop and lightsoff have both been disabled by default by the gnome-games developers since they are known to have graphics problems. Therefore, these two games are not installable in Ubuntu 11.10.

I am going to go ahead and close this bug since the games are known not to be very reliable.