When Launching Armegtron I get Segmentation Fault

[valdes]

Getting Segmentation Fault as soon as I start the game.
I compiled from source code and also had tried the general rpm Package.
I am running Fedora Core 5.
Please help...
Thanks

Valdes

[aaron@krypton ~]$ armagetronad
Segmentation fault

[wrtlprnft]

Any chance you can run it through gdb (run “gdb armagetronad”, then say “run”, then after the crash say “bt” and post the result) or strace (run “strace armagetronad”)?

[mdetrano]

I am getting the same thing on FC6 (32 and 64 bit versions). If I disable sound, it will launch (set SOUND_QUALITY to 0 in ~/.armagetronad/var/user.cfg). I can enable sound once I am in the game, but it will not launch with this setting enabled. I played around with different settings for SDL_AUDIODRIVER, but if it is not "alsa", I get no sound at all, and with alsa I get the segfault.

I did the gdb trace as suggested in this topic, and here is the tail end of it:

New Thread 1084229952 (LWP 4924)]
[Thread 1084229952 (LWP 4924) exited]
[New Thread 1084229952 (LWP 4925)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 46912496304448 (LWP 4921)]
0x0000003c3b075510 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000003c3b075510 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x0000003808c2867b in open_file () from /usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
#2 0x0000003808c318f1 in Timidity_Error () from /usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
#3 0x0000003808c32388 in Timidity_Init () from /usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
#4 0x0000003808c134fa in open_music () from /usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
#5 0x0000003808c11fa0 in Mix_OpenAudio () from /usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
#6 0x00000000004b3961 in std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string<char*> ()
#7 0x000000000040963d in __cxa_pure_virtual ()
#8 0x0000003c3b01da44 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#9 0x00000000004073c9 in __cxa_pure_virtual ()
#10 0x00007fffc49d6f28 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

[Lucifer]

Try installing timidity.

[Z-Man]

Whoa. Does that mean SDL_Mixer's initialization will crash if Timidity is not installed? Do we use it? If not, I'd suggest that means we should tell SDL_Mixer not to try to initialize it

[dlh]

That backtrace is the same as I was getting on the Mac OS X builds with sound enabled. This is a bug in Timidity, and it has nothing to do with Timidity not being installed. I reported it to SDL a few months ago — never got a response. Recently someone else reported it to SDL (and “cc”ed me). So they definitely know about it…