zsnes crashed on opening (will not open, instead crashes unity launcher))

[primefalcon]

brad@blackbeard~~$ 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/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/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: zsnes 1.510-2.2ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 27 18:24:01 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: zsnes
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-27 (0 days ago)

[mkmatney (mkmatney)]

This happens to me using Ubuntu 11.10 Unity 2d. To recreate:
1. Open zsnes
2. Maximize the window using alt-Enter
3. Close zsnes. Now, it will try to open maximized and will crash.

To temporarily fix it, I specify to not open it in full screen. To do this, I open a terminal, and type:
zsnes -v 2

Now it will work from the Unity launcher again until it is closed as a maximized screen.
If that doesn't work, you can type:
zsnes -?
Look at the -v options for video mode and find one that works.

I don't know how to change the commands in the Unity launcher yet. I think if I can figure out how, I can make it always open in a certain screen resolution and not have this problem any more.

[primefalcon (primefalcon)]

the temporary solution I am using is I opened it and have the settings how they need to be to open..... run the following to stop any configuration changes being made (note you mus be in your ~/.zsnes folder

sudo chown root zsnesl.cfg; sudo chmod a-w zsnesl.cfg; sudo chattr +i zsnesl.cfg

this will lock it into opening how you last opened it...

note: on first open when your setting your preferences (before you lock it down), navigate to your roms folder so it will open there from now on

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Antonio (souliaq)]

This happened to me in Lubuntu 12.04 64 bit, today 05-Jun-2013 (after executing apt-get -y update, apt-get -y upgrade, apt-get -y dist-upgrade):

Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event10. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event9. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
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/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/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Zsnes is configured to use fullscreen.

[shankao (shankao)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 861009

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for zsnes (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]