Description of problem: When starting TuxRacer from the KDE menu, it does absolutely nothing. When starting it from the CLI, I get a segfault and the following notification: "(SDL Parachute Deployed)". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.61 How reproducible: Click the tuxracer icon in KDE menu, or type "tuxracer" at the prompt. Actual results: ---8<--- [craig@fedora craig]$ tuxracer Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production (http://www.sunspirestudios.com) (c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry <jfpatry> "Tux Racer" is a trademark of Jasmin F. Patry Tux Racer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details. Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) [craig@fedora craig]$ --->8--- Additional info: This is a brand new install. It's a Dell Dimension XPS T450, P3-450, 384M RAM. I installed Fedora Core 2 from the four isos I just downloaded, it was a full install, nothing was left out. I have made no configuration changes since the default installation, other than shutting down extraneous services (chkconfig xyz off, service xyz stop, etc).
What video card does the system have. Also after the tuxracer crash does "dmesg" show any kernel "oops" message ?
Created attachment 100475 [details] xorg.conf file for Dell D800 with ATI 9600 Pro
Attachment #100475 [details] is for my Dell D800 with ATI 9600 Pro Video. I am running FC 2. When I launch tuxracer, my screen fades to white. I hear music. I press ESC to ge tout since I am afraid that the screen is going to burn out my LCD from the brightness of the white screen. Running ATI drivers from ATI website. Any ideas?
I have the exact same prob- fresh install on an asus a7n8x mobo with Nvidia 5700 gfx card- When I run from the menu the screen goes black, and reverts to the desktop, when I try from the console I get the "Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)" the kicked is that I re-installed the rpm, worked from the console, but as soon as I ran it from the menu- it died again. but now it runs intermittently form the console. and about 1/2-2/3 of the time gives me the seg fault.
What drivers is the nvidia one using. Problems involving ATI binary drivers or Nvidia binary drivers should go to ATI or Nvidia. We can only practically look at problems with the open source setups.
I'm getting the same problem (FC3T1 x86-64) with an NVIDIA GeForce 6800, though I don't get the "SDL Parachute Deployed" part. I also got it when I was using an ATI card with the default drivers (since ATI has no 64-bit drivers this was my only choice). tuxracer-0.61-26 kernel-2.6.7-1.494 This is what I get from dmesg: tuxracer[24883]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00000034c106b2a2 rsp 0000007fbffff390 error 6
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
tuxracer has been replaced by ppracer in extras