Bugzilla Bug 155276

flightgear-0.9.10 crashes at startup.

Error message:
fgfs
Error reading properties:
Failed to open file
 at /home/aniruddha/.fgfs/autosave.xml
 (reported by SimGear XML Parser)
  Model Author:  Unknown
  Creation Date: 2002-01-01
  Version:       $Id: c172p.xml,v 1.17 2006-03-13 15:27:14 ehofman Exp $
  Description:   Cessna C-172
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file or directory
Audio initialization failed!
   There was an error opening the ALC device
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Failed to load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
Error loading MK VIII sound sample "application-data-base-failed.wav": Failed
to                                                                           
load wav file:
 at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state
freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6
.17-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:30:06 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shu
tdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms
/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo "
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
                                                                          
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/d                                                                  
        istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib
cr                                                                          
ypt cups dbus dedicated dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss
enc                                                                          
ode esd fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk
ha                                                                           l
iconv imagemagick imlib input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_de 
                                                                        
vices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux ldap libg++
                                                                           mad
matroska mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive og   
                                                                       g opengl
oss pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readli        
                                                                  ne reflection
sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype tru             
                                                             etype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_nvidia vor           
                                                               bis win32codecs
wxwindows xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGU                                                                          
AS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

(In reply to comment #0)
> flightgear-0.9.10 crashes at startup.
> Error message:
> open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file or directory
> Audio initialization failed!

Do you have working sound?

> freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor
Known bug with freeglut; emerge freeglut-2.4.0-r1 and re-emerge FG

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 140542 ***