Game crash with exception when trying to launch

[Rafal Mielniczuk]

OS: Arch Linux

Game crashes with the following message:

$ widelands
This is Widelands Version build-19 (Release)
Set home directory: /home/ck/.widelands
There's no configuration file, using default values.
Adding directory: /usr/share/widelands
selected language: (system language)
using locale en_GB.UTF-8

Caught exception (of type 'St12out_of_range') in outermost handler!
The exception said: basic_string::substr: __pos (which is 8) > this->size() (which is 7)

This should not happen. Please file a bug report on version build-19(Release).
and remember to specify your operating system.

backtrace:
(gdb) bt
#0 __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=obj@entry=0x555555ef5d30, tinfo=0x7ffff5fd3038 <typeinfo for std::out_of_range>,
    dest=0x7ffff5cfc200 <std::out_of_range::~out_of_range()>) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:80
#1 0x00007ffff5ce259e in std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt (__fmt=<optimized out>) from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#2 0x0000555555776a0d in ?? ()
#3 0x000055555577beee in WLApplication::WLApplication(int, char const* const*) ()
#4 0x000055555577c330 in WLApplication::get(int, char const**) ()
#5 0x000055555575bf3c in main ()

Am I mising some files, is this Arch Linux packaging problem?

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Do you know which files are missing?

It would be good to have a better error message here in any case.

[kaputtnik (franku)]

Don't know if this is related:

For me it is not possible anymore to compile build19 on archlinux. It fails with:

[ 8%] Building CXX object src/ui_fsmenu/CMakeFiles/ui_fsmenu.dir/options.cc.o
In file included from /home/kaputtnik/widelands-repo/build19/src/ui_fsmenu/options.cc:36:
/home/kaputtnik/widelands-repo/build19/src/graphic/text/bidi.h:43:36: Fehler: »UnicodeString« bezeichnet keinen Typ
 std::string icustring2string(const UnicodeString& convertme);

So i wonder how the archlinux package was build. The last build was done on 2018-05-31.

Rafal, i recommend using the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/widelands-bzr/

[kaputtnik (franku)]

Found the bug 1760581 related to my previous post. We should apply the fix also to build 19. Don't know how though.

[Rafal Mielniczuk (kruk87)]

Thanks kaputtnik, I will give it a try.

BTW, Sorry the stacktrace was wrong in my first message, it's failing on some substring out of bound

#0 __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=obj@entry=0x555555ef5d30, tinfo=0x7ffff5fd3038 <typeinfo for std::out_of_range>,
    dest=0x7ffff5cfc200 <std::out_of_range::~out_of_range()>) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:80
#1 0x00007ffff5ce259e in std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt (__fmt=<optimized out>) from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#2 0x0000555555776a0d in ?? ()
#3 0x000055555577beee in WLApplication::WLApplication(int, char const* const*) ()
#4 0x000055555577c330 in WLApplication::get(int, char const**) ()
#5 0x000055555575bf3c in main ()

[kaputtnik (franku)]

I have installed widelands now from the official repository, but i can't confirm this bug for archliunx. widelands starts and i can also start a new game.

Rafal, can you check the dependencies?

$ > pacman -Qi widelands
Name : widelands
Version : 19-12
Description : A realtime strategy game with emphasis on economy and transport
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://widelands.org/
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : sdl2_mixer sdl2_image sdl2_net sdl2_ttf sdl2_gfx lua51 glew python2 boost-libs
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : widelands-data
Installed Size : 241.67 MiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <email address hidden>
Build Date : Thu May 31 04:00:44 2018
Install Date : Wed Jul 18 08:16:37 2018
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

[Rafal Mielniczuk (kruk87)]

OK it works now for me as well, after I removed ~/.widelands dir.

Seems I had the game installed before with previous version and the directories were not compatible.

Not sure which version back then that was, I did not kept copy of the dir....

I can see the oldest version available on
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/w/widelands/

is widelands-18-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz. I am not able to install it, since it depends on widelands-data pkg which is not available there.

Thanks

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Migrated to https://github.com/widelands/widelands/issues/3292