After few minutes of play torcs 1.2.4-r1 segfaults giving this message: ^[[C/usr/games/bin/torcs: line 52: 19326 Segmentation fault $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l $LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $* I tried running torcs with gdb (torcs -d), which I am not sure is useful, since I use fomit-frame-pointer and I get this info: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1299420256 (LWP 19512)] 0xb7a46de0 in alGetString () from /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 emerge --info: Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-ck10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck10 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 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, 2.59-r7 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-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texm f/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirr ors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_US sk" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --excl ude='/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 3dnowext X aac aalib alsa apache2 apm artworkextra avi bash-completion be rkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cpudetection crypt cups curl custom-cflag s dbus divx4linux dlloader dri dts dv dvb edl eds emboss encode exif fbcon fbdev fftw fi refox flac foomaticdb fortran fpx gd gdbm gif gimp glibc-omitfp gnome gphoto2 gpm graphv iz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k lcms libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn nas ncurses network new-login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia nvtv ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils png pppd python quicktime readline real refle ction rtc sdl seamonkey session spell spl sse ssl svg tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff t k truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf x ml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ke rnel_linux linguas_en_US linguas_sk userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vid eo_cards_fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXT RA_OPTS
The crash seems to be caused by bug in openal, see Bug #145245. As a workaround, it is possible to change sound system to plib instead of openal and after torcs runs without crashes.
Please test it with openal-0.0.8-r1
Seems fine with openal-0.0.8-r1
