Bug 198197

Description of problem:

LightYears (a game which may be found here:
http://www.jwhitham.org.uk/biscuit_games/LightYears/) aborts
when beginning the game(the presentation screen and the menu 
screen work well). The last error message is:
pygame.error: SDL_ttf render failed

The whole traceback:
  File "./LightYears.py", line 20, in ?
    startup.Main()
  File "code/startup.py", line 81, in Main
    main.Main()
  File "code/main.py", line 103, in Main
    quit = Main_Menu_Loop(n, clock, screen, (width, height))
  File "code/main.py", line 232, in Main_Menu_Loop
    (width,height), None, cmd)
  File "code/game.py", line 224, in Main_Loop
    Summary(g)
  File "code/game.py", line 198, in Summary
    New_Mail("You are playing " + lev[ g.challenge ] + " game.")
  File "code/mail.py", line 58, in New_Mail
    __messages.append((time.time() + MSG_EXPIRY_TIME,

I have the latest rawhide installed, with 
SDL-1.2.10-3
SDL_ttf-2.0.7-4.fc5
freetype-2.2.1-2
pygame-1.7.1-7.fc6.1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install pygame
2. "install" LightYears
3.  wget http://www.jwhitham.org.uk/biscuit_games/LightYears/LightYears-1.2.zip
unzip LightYears-1.2.zip
cd LightYears
./LightYears.py

click on 'Play new gamùe' and the Tutorial (or any other game)

Actual results:

traceback with pygame.error: SDL_ttf render failed

Expected results:

The game was working before my latest rawhide update.

Additional info: