When I try to start a new game, Balazar says: Error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> (Exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not GLError)

[Christian Meyer]

Binary package hint: balazar

It didn't exactly crash, I just couldn't start a game, and when I closed it, I got this crash notifier.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 7 08:35:12 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/games/balazar
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: balazar 0.3.3.ds1-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -O /usr/games/balazar
ProcCwd: /home/chris
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/games/balazar']
SourcePackage: balazar
Uname: Linux Ventilope 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Matthias Geiser (matthias-geiser)]

I can confirm this bug.

Shell output:

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$ balazar
* Balazar * Balazar lives in /usr/share/games
* Balazar * (Psyco not found ; if you are using an x86 processor, installing psyco can speed up Balazar a little)
* Soya * Using 8 bits stencil buffer

* Soya * version 0.12
* Using OpenGL 1.3 Mesa 6.5.2
* - renderer : Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 1x TCL
* - vendor : Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
* - maximum number of lights : 8
* - maximum number of clip planes : 6
* - maximum number of texture units : 6
* - maximum texture size : 2048 pixels
* Using OpenAL 1.1
* - renderer : Software
* - vendor : OpenAL Community

GL_INVALID_ENUM
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/games/balazar/gui.py", line 216, in play_solo
    r = balazar.game_interface.start_single(globdef.NAME, "test")
  File "/usr/share/games/balazar/game_interface.py", line 110, in start_single
    r = tofu.single.serve_forever(login = login, password = password)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/tofu/single.py", line 75, in serve_forever
    return tofu.IDLER.idle()
  File "main_loop.pyx", line 109, in _soya.MainLoop.idle
  File "main_loop.pyx", line 158, in _soya.MainLoop.main_loop
  File "main_loop.pyx", line 247, in _soya.MainLoop.render
  File "renderer.pyx", line 424, in _soya.render
  File "renderer.pyx", line 399, in _soya.check_gl_error
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not GLError
* Soya3D * Quit...

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported by other users. Feel free to report any other bug you find.