Bug 87032 – Frozen-bubble exits on startup with error "Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/games/bin/frozen-bubble line 169."

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Parker 2005-03-28 14:21:03 UTC]

on line 169, the program attempts to return a variable $$sound, where it shoudl return $sound.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.attempt to execute frozen bubble in CLI
2.Read the error
3.

Actual Results:  
mattp@daresbalat xdm $ frozen-bubble
        [[ Frozen-Bubble-1.0.0 ]]

  http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

  Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau.
  Artwork: Alexis Younes <73lab at free.fr>
           Amaury Amblard-Ladurantie <amaury at linuxfr.org>
  Soundtrack: Matthias Le Bidan <matthias.le_bidan at caramail.com>
  Design & Programming: Guillaume Cottenceau <guillaume.cottenceau at free.fr>
  Level Editor: Kim and David Joham <[k|d]joham at yahoo.com>

  Sponsored by MandrakeSoft <http://www.mandrakesoft.com/>

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as
  published by the Free Software Foundation.

[SDL Init] [Graphics...] [Levels] [Sound Init]
Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/games/bin/frozen-bubble line 169.


Expected Results:  
started

[Comment 1 Matt Parker 2005-03-28 14:25:22 UTC]

Created attachment 54721 [details, diff]
one line patch for frozen-bubble

Don't know about the format for patches... it's only a one-character change...
hope this helps.
-Matt

[Comment 2 Matt Parker 2005-03-28 14:28:55 UTC]

Comment on attachment 54721 [details, diff]
one line patch for frozen-bubble

>Line 169 should read:
>return $sound;
>

169c169
<		return $$sound;
---
>               return $sound;

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-03-28 15:52:37 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86930 ***

[Comment 4 sanmail 2005-03-28 18:47:49 UTC]

So, you wrote the patch. And what about the Intro music? Is it playing?

[Comment 5 Matt Parker 2005-03-28 19:41:22 UTC]

Yes, sound working for me (Gentoo 2.6.8 w/ ALSA).

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-04-12 07:33:29 UTC]

*** Bug 88854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 09:05:35 UTC]

Closing to clean up after bugzilla upgrade.  reopen if closed in error.  Thanks.

[Comment 8 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-09-14 20:34:58 UTC]

clean up bug list after bugzilla update