Bug 29114 – penguin-command freezes XFree

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description crusaderky 2003-09-19 06:19:44 UTC]

After some time (5 to 20 mins) that I'm playing with penguin-command, everything
freezes and the only solution is to press ctrl+alt+backspace.

My configuration:
Athlon XP 2400+
512Mb RAM
GeForce 4 MX440
Asus A7S333

I'm using NVidia accelerated drivers and the most up-to-date gentoo packages
(without ~x86), as well as linux-2.4.22-vanilla. I don't use XDM.
All other opengl games work well. 

These are my flags in make.conf:

USE="3dnow aalib apache2 cdr cscope cups curl directfb dga doc dvb faad fbcon
flash gd ggi gif gtk2 guile jikes kerberos imap lcms ldap mcal memlimit mmx
mozaccess mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpi mysql offensive
parse-clocks ppds samba scanner skey slp sse tcltk tiff v4l wmf wxwindows xml
xml2 xvid"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer
-falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-09-19 08:04:22 UTC]

*** Bug 29116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-09-19 08:43:58 UTC]

*** Bug 29115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-09-19 10:32:46 UTC]

i just added 0.6.6, could you try that out please ?

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-09-19 10:45:34 UTC]

err 1.6.6

[Comment 5 crusaderky 2003-09-19 15:11:41 UTC]

ebuild's broken.

#emerge -pv penguin-command

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies \
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "media-libs/jpeg-6b".

I've got jpeg-6b-r3 already installed.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-09-19 16:28:52 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29148 ***

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2003-09-19 16:29:34 UTC]

wrong bug, i fixed ebuild at Bug 29148

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2003-09-26 11:34:03 UTC]

so does the new ebuild fix your problem ?

[Comment 9 crusaderky 2003-09-26 14:09:03 UTC]

MUCH worse.

Now audio has about 500ms delay; also, I once did the following:
1)successfully launched the game, then exited from the main menu
2)re-launched the game a few seconds later; it icrashed immediately ("SDL
parachute deployed")
3)re-launched a third time; the screen went black. I pressed ctrl+alt+F2
for a console and typed "killall penguin-command", then pressed alt+F7 to
go back to XFree. The black screen was still there.

I couldn't reproduce this, however.

I can't say if there are still random freezes, as I'm not much willing to
play it without a decent audio...

[Comment 10 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 01:32:42 UTC]

I can reproduce the segfault pretty much whenever I want.  It goes like
this:

start the game
enter the option screen
press ESC
the game will exit
start it again
...SDL parachute deployed.

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2003-11-03 23:08:30 UTC]

i cant make the game reliably crash but if i keep re-running it i can get
it to both black screen and to sdl-parachute crash ...

running gdb on it doesnt seem to help ... seems to lock up in different places
each time ...

[Comment 12 SpanKY 2003-11-03 23:15:18 UTC]

when i disabled sound support, i couldnt make it crash anymore ...

so the good news is no crashing :D
bad news is no sound :/

sync up and re-emerge the game and see if you can get it to crash ... you'll
know if you've got the change if you dont have sound anymore :)

[Comment 13 SpanKY 2003-11-12 14:47:41 UTC]

punted sound support until it gets less buggy