Re: [freesci-develop] Release Candidate 2: Please test

[Matt]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:


For VM crashes, typing 'bt' and including that output can also be useful 
sometimes.

> > SQ3:
> > Seg faults during intro before the glass slides away from Roger's face.
> > Here is the last messages on the shell.
> > The core dump is at
> > http://de.geocities.com/robertwenner/core-sq3.zip
>
>  Your core file does not appear to include debug symbols (or
> otherwise by gdb is confused).  Could you try re-running this, and
> this time run with 0.6.3 compiled via
>
>  CFLAGS="-g -O0" ./configure && make
>
> please?  This will give a noticeably slower executable, but I should
> be able to figure out what I need from there.

You could also try running valgrind and giving the output right before the 
crash. This may provide the information necessary to pinpoint and fix the 
problem more quickly.


> > KQ4:
> >
> > Sometimes in scenes like Rosella cleaning up the dwarves' house, it seems
> > the game hogs all the processor resources (admittedly, this is an old
> > machine). The game briefly freezes and the console has lots of these
> > messages:
> > Looping song iterator 00230014.
> > and sometimes
> > Looping song iterator 001a0014.

This is the same bug I saw in scenes with pan playing his flute.