Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 442818
bzflag segfaults on startup
Last modified: 2008-07-23 03:19:10 EDT
Description of problem: bzflag segfaults upon startup. [tonyb@tonybox ~]$ rpm -qi bzflag Name : bzflag Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.0.10 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 6.fc9 Build Date: Fri 22 Feb 2008 03:48:42 PM EST How reproducible: Every time for me tested on 2 different computers Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install bzflag 2.run 'bzflag' Actual results: Screen flashes black, Segmentation Fault follows. Expected results: BZflag runs. Additional info:
Created attachment 302689 [details] backtrace w/debuginfo reproduced, here's a backtrace w/debug info
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 443930 ***
*** Bug 447032 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't think this is actually a duplicate of 443930; that appears to be a Mesa bug, but this appears to actually be a bzflag bug (the stack trace I get, similar to the trace already added here, is entirely within bzflag and looks nothing like the traces in 443930). I've tried the mesa update listed in 443930 but bzflag still crashes for me.
I agree, this is definitely not a duplicate of either of the other two bugs listed here. I get a similar backtrace, and would love to get this working on a stock Fedora 9.
I've seen the same thing. CPU = Intel Core2 Quad, video = Nvidia 8600. [paj@eiffel ~]$ uname -a Linux eiffel.house 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 15:58:30 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Also, I've managed to run it on a couple of occasions. I don't know what makes the difference, but when it does run all the menu and configuration text is left-justified against the centre of the screen, and where there are two columns they appear over-laid. Sorry I can't get a screenshot. However I guess that this is also something to do with string length coming up zero. Uninitialised variable?
just rebuild bzflag 2.0.12 (http://my.bzflag.org/w/BZFlag_2.0.12) using slightly modified fedora spec file (http://vasile.fedoramd.org/bzflag.spec - only thing changed is plugin patch removed). BZflag does not crash at startup. Packages can be downloaded from http://repo.fedoramd.org/fmd/fedora/9/
I was already working on that, but I seem to have run into bug #448278 in the meantime. Version 2.0.12 should hit updates-testing soon so that those of you with other graphics hardware can test it.
bzflag-2.0.12-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
bzflag-2.0.12-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
bzflag-2.0.12-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update bzflag'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-6182
bzflag-2.0.12-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
bzflag-2.0.12-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.