I can't point any particular reason for this, but I guess it was caused by one of recent updates (I'm updating my Gentoo box more often than playing games). Although it starts and shows main menu screen, Torcs segfaults wehever I try to start a new race. I tried to rebuild but it didn't help. During rebuild I copied unstripped torcs-bin dynamically linked binary and tried to do post portem analysis. It isn't helpful - seems like the stack is corrupted: Reading symbols from ./torcs-bin...done. [New LWP 17143] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `/usr/games/lib/torcs/torcs-bin -l ~/.torcs -L /usr/games/lib/torcs -D /usr/'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xb2d1d03b in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0xb2d1d03b in ?? () #1 0x08c88bf0 in ?? () Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update Gentoo box often 2. try to play games-sports/torcs game 3. in the main menu, try to start a new race Actual Results: Visual Properties Report ------------------------ Compatibility mode, properties unknown. /usr/games/bin/torcs: line 53: 17255 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l $LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $* Expected Results: no crash Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/x86/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.8.13-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.13-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 2067276 total, 125160 free KiB Swap: 2104508 total, 2055836 free Timestamp of tree: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 07:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.6.8, 2.7.5, 3.1.5, 3.2.5-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 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I've forgotten to add version info: this is games-sports/torcs-1.3.4
After recent alsa-lib upgrade (to version media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.1) I can see some progress here: after selecting new race in menu, a race screen is opened (for a first time!) with following output printed on a console: OpenAL backend info: Vendor: OpenAL Community Renderer: OpenAL Soft Version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.15.1 Available sources: 256 Available buffers: 1024 or more Dynamic Sources: requested: 235, created: 235 #static sources: 21 #dyn sources : 235 Unfortunately, after few seconds of hearing nice tune, a crash as usual kills the game.
Rebuilding of OpenAL did not help. However, since I've found that it is the sound that causes all of the problems, I went into configuration menu and changed sound system from OpenAL to plib - now torcs works fine!
you didn't proviede any debug information, so it's hard to say where is problem. You may try media-libs/openal-9999 from ::ixit overlay and report if it still segfailts? At least for me it solved one crash.
it's no better in 1.3.6 as far as I can tell.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=97caaf827ca530c3b8dcb7b1377bb403cac9b632 commit 97caaf827ca530c3b8dcb7b1377bb403cac9b632 Author: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-11-01 04:37:21 +0000 Commit: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-11-01 04:37:21 +0000 games-sports/torcs: treeclean Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/253517 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/479698 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/601636 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/711644 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/846671 Signed-off-by: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> games-sports/torcs/Manifest | 1 - .../torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-as-needed.patch | 96 ---------------------- games-sports/torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-flags.patch | 14 ---- games-sports/torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-format.patch | 34 -------- games-sports/torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-gcc6.patch | 11 --- games-sports/torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-gcc7.patch | 11 --- .../torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-no-automake.patch | 21 ----- games-sports/torcs/files/torcs-1.3.6-noXmuXt.patch | 15 ---- games-sports/torcs/metadata.xml | 11 --- games-sports/torcs/torcs-1.3.6-r2.ebuild | 68 --------------- profiles/package.mask | 7 -- 11 files changed, 289 deletions(-)
