Bug 56933 – supertux-0.1.1-r1: "Error: Can't covert to display format"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carsten Milkau 2004-07-13 10:57:53 UTC]

$ supertux
Datadir: /usr/share/games/supertux
Warning: No joysticks are available.

Error: Can't covert to display format
/usr/share/games/supertux/images/status/letters-black.png

Abgebrochen

This error message only appears when running supertux as a non-privileged user, it's probably some wrong permissions.  It is a quite strange error message, so I do not know how to recover from it.  I post this to gentoo because the message appeared after the update of various gentoo packages which did NOT include the supertux package.  I think this might be caused by a dependency or ebuild error.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge supertux-0.1.1-r1
2. run supertux as non-privileged user
3.

Actual Results:  
Error message as mentioned above, program abort. 

Expected Results:  
program startup 

# emerge info 
 
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" 
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ 
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ 
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo 
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo 
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo 
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo 
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ 
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo 
" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="3dfx 3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr clanJavaScript 
clanVoice crypt cups curl directfb dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif 
gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib innodb java jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_de 
linguas_en mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis 
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres postgresql ppds python qt quicktime 
readline ruby scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd 
tetex threads tiff truetype usb video_cards_radeon vim-with-x wmf x86 xml xml2 
xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-07-14 01:11:49 UTC]

What's the ouput of the groups command for the user?

[Comment 2 Carsten Milkau 2004-07-14 06:37:38 UTC]

$ groups
tty wheel floppy audio cdrom games cdrw users parport vmware-user fetch

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-07-17 03:18:45 UTC]

Remerge libsdl, run revdep-rebuild and remerge supertux and see if that makes
a difference.  Works fine here.

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-07-25 23:43:13 UTC]

Reopen with the results of trying that please.

[Comment 5 Carsten Milkau 2004-07-26 01:01:52 UTC]

Rebuild of broken dependencies solved the problem for me.  I am sorry but I do not have the output of revdep-rebuild on hand.  I believe to remember that libSDL and friends were involved.

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-07-26 01:16:59 UTC]

Ok. sounds fixed to me.

[Comment 7 Carsten Milkau 2004-08-29 13:54:51 UTC]

The problem appears again in supertux-0.1.2. Revdep-rebuild does not find broken binaries, nor does remerge of supertux help.

[Comment 8 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-08-29 18:13:23 UTC]

rebuild all the listed deps for supertux and try merging it again.

[Comment 9 Carsten Milkau 2004-08-30 04:23:39 UTC]

I rebuilt media-libs/sdl-image-1.2.2, which made the error disappear. However, I think it is not a good thing that this necessity was not discovered by the portage tools.
Nevertheless this "works for me" now. 

[Comment 10 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-08-30 11:54:14 UTC]

I don't know why you have this failure.  I have never seen it.

[Comment 11 Pekka Paalanen 2008-08-02 11:07:18 UTC]

I've hit the same problem as in the original report, with supertux 0.1.3.
I've tried re-emerging libsdl, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, libXt, and supertux itself, but the problem persists.

'sudo /usr/games/bin/supertux' exhibits the problem, but 'sudo su -' and then '/usr/games/bin/supertux' does not, so it's probably something in the environment. Very weird.

The error message can be found in this source file:
http://supertux.lethargik.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/tags/supertux/0_1_3/src/texture.cpp?revision=3398&view=markup

[Comment 12 Tupone Alfredo 2008-11-09 12:48:03 UTC]

Please post your emerge --info and check if you have the png use flag enabled