Main window doesn't appear, CPU usage at 100% (after config file created on first run)

[oldfred]

Using 12.04 with fall-back mode and nVidia proprietary driver.
openyahtzee (1.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

top - 14:40:38 up 1 day, 23:23, 1 user, load average: 0.56, 0.50, 0.44
Tasks: 153 total, 2 running, 151 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 50.2%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 49.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4048544k total, 3848720k used, 199824k free, 1251984k buffers
Swap: 7268664k total, 1768k used, 7266896k free, 1836364k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22404 fred 20 0 327m 12m 10m R 0.3 0:13.65 openyahtzee
   10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.44 ksoftirqd/1
 1309 root 20 0 158m 54m 18m S 0 1.4 19:48.19 Xorg
22410 fred 20 0 568m 17m 11m S 0 0.4 0:00.19 gnome-terminal
22471 fred 20 0 17332 1316 948 R 0 0.0 0:00.01 top
    1 root 20 0 24460 2008 1348 S 0 0.0 0:00.66 init

fred@fred-Precise:~$ echo $PATH
/home/fred/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
fred@fred-Precise:~$ whereis openyahtzee
openyahtzee: /usr/games/openyahtzee /usr/share/man/man6/openyahtzee.6.gz
fred@fred-Precise:~$

fred@fred-Precise:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu precise (development branch)"

ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 20 15:12:20 2012
Dependencies:
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 debconf 1.5.42ubuntu1
 debianutils 4.2.1ubuntu2
 dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
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 libc-bin 2.15-0ubuntu9
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DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111107)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openyahtzee 1.9-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
SourcePackage: openyahtzee
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I could not reproduce the crash.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[oldfred (oldfred)]

Ran backtrace

If I run openyahtzee from command line, processor #1 goes to 100%, If I try running it again then both processors show 100% until I kill the process. No window ever opens.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

The second time I ran it, I encountered a crash as well. Deleting the ~/.openyahtzee file allowed the program to run again.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I grabbed openyahtzee 1.9.1 source from Debian sid, built a .deb on precise, and the issue appears to be resolved. Unfortunately, the openyahtzee svn and bug tracker appear to be outdated, so no clues as to what caused the crash. The only changelog I found for 1.9.1 made a vague reference to fixes that affect Linux users. Hopefully, this can be FFe'd before Precise release.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I filed FFe bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openyahtzee/+bug/987089

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

As a workaround for 12.04, here's a command that replaces the settings file with an unwritable empty one that seems to prevent the issue from occurring:

$ rm -f ~/.openyahtzee && touch ~/.openyahtzee && chmod -w ~/.openyahtzee

This obviously prevents you from saving any settings, but then again you can't utilize saved settings with the buggy version anyway.

To revert the workaround, remove the unwritable dummy file with:

$ rm -f ~/.openyahtzee

[oldfred (oldfred)]

My workaround was to download into my test install of 12.10 and copy that .deb file into 12.04.

That newer version then worked and I did not have to recompile myself.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Sorry for the noise. I was trying to split the bug into different Series (since it's been fixed in Quantal). I don't think I can do that, though, so marking Fixed.