Re: [glob2-devel] my final release candidate testing feedback

[Joe Wells]

Okay, I'm really stopping after this.  :-)  No more time for testing.

• BUG:  I got a segmentation violation when pressing right mouse
  button to switch the contents of the right panel.  The game was
  paused at the time, so I can be pretty sure that the crash resulted
  from switching the panel.  Of course, there is no core dump file, so
  I can't help figure out why.

• BUG:  I am getting glibc/malloc corruption crashes.

  I got a crash with this message:

    *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x08d38da0 ***

  This seems to have happened while formatting a message for display
  on the screen.  This is bug #20771.

  I also got a crash with this message:

    *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x08d95b98 ***

  This seems to have happened while deconstructing a Game object (when
  exiting the editor).  This is bug #20772.

  I got yet another crash with this message:

    *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x090845d0 ***

  This happened when I was overrunning the enemy base and seems to
  have been triggered by deconstructing a Building object.  This is
  also part of bug #20772.

• BUG: The game got into a state where most of the commands were being
  delayed by about 15 seconds.  Things that were delayed: pausing (the
  “p” key), quitting (from the menu), adjusting number of requested
  globules or radius on a flag.  Things that still worked instantly:
  moving the viewport with mouse or keyboard, dragging flags.  The
  game was almost over so I didn't get much more experience with this.

• BUG:  The fertility map sometimes completely does not work (nothing
  shows anywhere).  But sometimes (later in the same game) it works
  fine.

• BUG (old, I think):  The damage map is not working.  It doesn't show
  anything, despite lots of damaged globules.

• When glob2 is run the very first time (and there is no ~/.glob2
  directory yet), it prints this error message:

    Settings::load("preferences.txt") : error, can't open file.

  Given that this is a normal course of events, it would be better if
  no error message were printed to avoid scaring the user.

• It would be better if the fertility map did not highlight areas with
  stone on them, given that nothing can ever grow where there is
  stone.

I hope these comments are helpful.

-- 
Joe