openmw randomly crashes

[Maksim S]

This is a known issue with release 0.45 if built with openscenegraph 3.6.4
Upstream bug report: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/-/issues/5205
AFAIK be fixed updating to openmw 0.46 built with openscenegraph 3.6.5

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: openmw 0.45.0-4build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-37.41-generic 5.4.41
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jun 16 14:10:55 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-12 (247 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Beta amd64 (20190926.1)
SourcePackage: openmw
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-16 (0 days ago)

[Bret Curtis (psi29a)]

As reported https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/-/issues/5205 and also in Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=945875

OSG 3.6.4 is broken (by broken, it crashes applications that links to it) and should not have been pulled downstream, compounded by the fact that it replaced working OSG 3.4. The OpenMW team worked hard to trace the problems down and sent patches upstream to openscenegraph which made a 3.6.5 release which does not crash.

There are still additional patches in for OSG 3.6.6 but that has not yet be releases but those are more quality-of-life patches.

I do not know if it is still possible to get OSG 3.6.5 into 20.04 proper; could it at least be put into bionic-backports?

Cheers,
Bret Curtis (OpenMW Lead and Debian Package Maintainer)

[Bret Curtis (psi29a)]

Redirecting to openscenegraph; openmw works fine with OSG 3.6.5; OSG 3.6.4 is broken and causes applications linked against it to crash.