Description of problem: Minetest crashes in the Online Mod Repository window Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): minetest-0.4.10-2.fc22.x86_64 in rawhide -- also happens in 0.4.9 in F20 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. run minetest, click on "mods" in the main menu screen 2. press the "Online mod repository" button 3. wait about three seconds Actual results: Crash! (See additional info.) Expected results: Some sort of online mod repository, I guess. :) Additional info: Irrlicht log: Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.1 Irrlicht log: Linux 3.16.0-0.rc7.git3.1.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 31 15:06:26 UTC 2014 x86_64 Irrlicht log: Creating X window... Irrlicht log: Using renderer: OpenGL 3.0 Irrlicht log: Gallium 0.4 on NVE7: nouveau Irrlicht log: OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better. Irrlicht log: GLSL version: 1.3 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'LuaError' what(): C++ exception Aborted (core dumped)
Hmmm. Built upstream master, and it doesn't have the problem. Not sure if there was a fix or if this shows a build/rpm problem.
Hmmm, part 2... works when I build from the tarballs in the source RPM. Does *not* work when I rebuild the source RPM and install.
Okay, so... good news and bad news. Commenting out patch #1 and leaving the bundled json in place cures this bug.
Upstream: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1147
The patch to (system) jsoncpp from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753560 fixes this. Updating to github master *does not*. (Unfortunately, though, the patch also makes a build test fail. What a mess!)
No, wait -- updating to github master _does_ work. But, sadly, it is not ABI compatible (despite no soname bump). So.... that's kind of a mess.
In case it helps, I built a jsoncpp 0.7.0 snapshot RPM at http://mattdm.org/misc/fedora/jsoncpp-0.7.0-0.1.20140917gitdf26dae.src.rpm and a Copr at http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mattdm/minetest/
Hmmmm, so.... new jsoncpp 0.10.0 upstream https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/releases says "(Based on 1.6.0. Binary-compatible with the old 0.6.0-rc2 from sourceforge.)"
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