Bug 149008 – quake3-1.34_alpha789 crashing with openal-0.0.8

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Stimpson 2006-09-24 18:17:52 UTC]

I can get to the menu screen, but when I try to load any of the original quake3 levels, it crashes.  Interestingly, a couple of the levels that come with the Reaction Quake 3 mod (420main and feud) will load.  The first is completely playable (the elevator sounds aren't being played correctly, though); the latter will load, but as soon as you start to interact with anything, it crashes like the rest.

After upgrading to gcc and glibc to current versions a month ago, I rebuilt everything, and many things broke.  I went around fixing them, and have only now noticed that quake3 has stopped working, so I'm not sure exactly what has broken it.  I do remember upgrading to openal-0.0.8 happened right before it, but downgrading to older versions doesn't fix it.  I recompiled openal with the debug flag, and even applied the patches described in <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145245">Bug 145245</a>, to no avail.  The output of the crash and my emerge --info are attached.

Since I haven't found any other bugs that sound like this, I'm guessing it's going to be unreproducible on other machines, just a peculiarity of my hardware.

[Comment 1 Andrew Stimpson 2006-09-24 18:22:39 UTC]

Created attachment 97991 [details]
Output of quake3 crash

[Comment 2 Andrew Stimpson 2006-09-24 18:23:41 UTC]

Created attachment 97992 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-29 10:06:41 UTC]

Can you see if it still crashed with openal-0.0.8-r1?

[Comment 4 Andrew Stimpson 2006-09-29 23:42:34 UTC]

Yes, it still crashes with openal-0.0.8-r1.  No change at all.

[Comment 5 Prakash Punnoor 2006-09-30 05:55:26 UTC]

Recompile quake3 w/o mfpmath=sse. It won't work with quake's i387 asm.

[Comment 6 Andrew Stimpson 2006-09-30 11:49:44 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Recompile quake3 w/o mfpmath=sse. It won't work with quake's i387 asm.

This fixed it.  Thanks!  I would have never figured this out myself.  Is using this CFLAG a bad idea in general, or is this just a quirk of quake3?

[Comment 7 Prakash Punnoor 2006-10-01 02:40:18 UTC]

As long as your package doesn't do explicit i387 operation, the flag is safe, but if it does (as quake3) it breaks. But there should be the possibility to disable i387 asm, as quake3 works on x86_64 as well, where newer gcc's uses mfpmath=sse by default.

[Comment 8 Prakash Punnoor 2006-10-01 06:58:30 UTC]

BTW, I don't think this bug shou be marked "fixed", as the ebuiold doesn't filter the offending cflag out on x86. The bug should rather be marked INVALID...

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-10-03 08:28:17 UTC]

Actually, I just updated CVS, so we can leave this as FIXED.