Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo- r8-1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8-1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.29 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 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: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fet ch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.mirrorse rvice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X aac acpi alsa amazon apache2 asf avi berkdb binary-drivers bitmap-fo nts bzip2 cairo cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups daap dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread dvi effects elibc_glibc encode exif exo fastbuild ffmpeg fi refox flash foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icc imap input_devices_evdev input_devices_kdb input_devices_keyboard input_dev ices_mouse java javascript jpeg kernel_linux libg++ logrotate mad ming mmx mmxex t mng mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls no-seamonkey nosrc nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl pam pango pcre pdf pdflib perl php png ppds pppd ps python qt3 qt 4 quicktime rar readline reflection reiserfs samba sdl session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg swat tcpd thumbnail thunar-vfs tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1- fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx vorbis widescreen win32codecs wma wmf x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTA GE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS The errors are when trying to start any kind of game: LoadGame: [bool SpeciesData::loadObjects(const QColor&)] Loading object from group daisycutter 0.000002 Creating KInstance object... 0.000477 Processing cmdline... 0.000961 Checking config... 0.003260 Loading model... 0.003339 [virtual bool Loader3DS::load()] 0.026353 [virtual bool Loader3DS::load()] loaded from /usr/share/apps/boson/themes/species/human//objects/daisycutter.3ds 0.026416 [virtual Loader3DS::~Loader3DS()] 0.026519 [virtual Loader3DS::~Loader3DS()] done 0.028605 Completing model loading... 0.028862 LOD 0 had 5 meshes, containing 248 vertices in 280 faces 0.028895 Removing unused data... 0.028930 Transforming model... 0.028954 [bool Transformer::resizeModel()] Resizing model... 0.052258 [bool Transformer::applyTransformations(LOD*, Mesh*)] Transforming mesh... 0.055095 [bool Transformer::applyTransformations(LOD*, Mesh*)] Transforming mesh... boson: ERROR: [static QString BoBMFLoad::convertModel(const QString&, const QString&)] bobmfconverter did not write file boson: ERROR: [BosonModel* BosonModelFactory::createObjectModel(const KSimpleConfig*, const QString&)] model loading failed BosonModel: [BosonModel::~BosonModel()] BosonModel: [BosonModel::~BosonModel()] delete 0 lods BosonModel: [BosonModel::~BosonModel()] delete 0 materials BosonModel: [BosonModel::~BosonModel()] done LoadGame: ERROR: [bool SpeciesData::loadObjects(const QColor&)] NULL model created LoadGame: ERROR: [virtual bool BosonStartingLoadPlayerData::startTask()] loading objects failed LoadGame: ERROR: [bool BosonStarting::executeTasks(const QPtrList<BosonStartingTask>&)] could not complete task Load player data of player 1 (of 2) LoadGame: ERROR: [void BosonStarting::slotStart()] STARTING: game starting failed boson: [void BosonMainWidget::slotStartingFailed()] Error message: "Game starting failed"
that behaviuor is caused by an upstream bug in boson. It seems is has been fixed in the current version. Do you mind testing it in boson-1.11 or boson-1.12?
Thanks, it works now. Tested with boson-0.13.
bugzilla
boson-0.11 is long gone