When i try to run Blobwars, it gives me this error message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Aborted I did an strace and found this information: [SNIP] open("/usr/share/games/parallelrealities/blobwars.pak", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=7469084, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x3014e000 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=7469084, ...}) = 0 _llseek(3, 7340032, [7340032], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(3, "\212OL/\0\31/\256\305\344\16oT\n\300\261\267\217,\234]"..., 129044) = 129044 read(3, "\0qAD\0\0\2\212", 131072) = 8 mmap(NULL, 3499102208, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) mmap(NULL, 3499233280, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) mmap(NULL, 2097152, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x3016e000 munmap(0x3016e000, 598016) = 0 munmap(0x30300000, 450560) = 0 mprotect(0x30200000, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3499102208, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) futex(0xf359998, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 0 futex(0xf26d200, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 0 write(2, "terminate called after throwing "..., 48terminate called after throwing an instance of ') = 48 write(2, "std::bad_alloc", 14std::bad_alloc) = 14 write(2, "\'\n", 2' ) = 2 write(2, " what(): ", 11 what(): ) = 11 write(2, "St9bad_alloc", 12St9bad_alloc) = 12 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 tgkill(15755, 15755, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge blobwars 2. blobwars 3. Actual Results: Blobwars wouldn't run Expected Results: Blobwars should have been executed sucessfully Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 10 2005, 16:13:25)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mabi=altivec -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mabi=altivec -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_IE" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/hmtr/ROOT/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X alsa altivec apm artworkextra bitmap-fonts cdr cups dga dhcp eds encode esd foomaticdb gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal jikes jpeg mad mikmod mozilla moznomail mppe-mppc nls nptl nptlonly offensive oggvorbis opengl pic png ppds samba sdl ssl truetype unicode usb xml2 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
resync and remerge and see if that helps
It did work, allright, but I don't understand why. Could you please explain?
Oops, talked too early. The game launches, the intro plays, but then complains about a missing file: An unforseen error has occured A required file (gfx/main/prlogo.gif) was not found in PAK file I reinstalled Blobwars to no avail.
there is a big endian issue with blobwars
and it's been patched.
