Random(?) Segmentation Fault Crash

[davewb]

Hi

I have been experiencing segmentation faults with the 0.3.0010 PS client, which I never saw under the 0.3.0009 version. They\'ve all occurred in the sewers: 1. lying dead after a gobble killed me; 2. during the \'map\' change after entering the sewers behind the pub; 3. just walking down some steps with no other stuff going on.

On the last occasion, I\'ve done a GDB backtrace from the core dump:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x43d91421 in ov_read ()
   from /home/dave/planeshift/cal3d/libvorbisfile.so.3
#1  0x43d8ab35 in csOggSoundData::ReadStreamed(long&) ()
   from /home/dave/planeshift/CS/sndogg.so
#2  0x00000002 in ?? ()

I don\'t know if this is useful; I\'ll keep the core dump too if its of any benefit if you want me to examine something...

My system is PIV/1.5GHz, Mandrake 10.0, kernel 2.6.3, GLibC 2.3.4.

Cheers
Dave

[Leeloo]

I suggest checking what version you have of libogg and libvorbis. Possibly an old buggy version...

[davewb]

My libogg is 1.1 and libvorbis is 1.0.1. AFAIK, these are the latest... I certainly haven\'t changed them ever. All was well with previous PS.

Dave

[lethe]

i could minimal the random crashes by deactivating the sound completely

greets

lethe

[Platyna]

Actually it has to be a CS bug. He is using library that comes with the client.

Regards.

[davewb]

FYI, I have been running last couple of days with the sound off and so far I\'ve not had the crash...

Dave

[Leander256]

I just had a crash which seems to be related to sound in CS, when going out of the Temple of Laanx:

Crossed from sector laanxmain to sector laanxentrance.

MovePlayerTo
:
  Setting position of player to the new sector

MovePlayerTo
:
  Setting position of player 1.013346 -0.012151 -7.358077

CheckSectorCrossing
:
  Sector crossed from laanxmain to laanxentrance.

*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid pointer: 0xa941e1d0 ***
Abandon (core dumped)

And here\'s the backtrace (not very useful, looks like stack was damaged because of addresses in 0x0000000?):

#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7d918ef in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7e96ff4 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x0000000d in ?? ()
#4  0xb7dcf144 in realloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x00000002 in ?? ()
#6  0xb7e89457 in in6addr_any () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0xb4ba72dc in ?? ()
#8  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#9  0xb6ebea86 in csSoundRenderSoftware::isStereo (this=Cannot access memory at address 0xf3ff0008
) at srdrcom.cpp:285
Cannot access memory at address 0xf3ff0000

[Havox]

the linux client in my experience is still very buggy.
The damned thing keeps crashing on me.
It doesn\'t even segfaults it just as i enter the tavern|temple|wherever, move to a diferently lighted area or switch region says goodbye and crashes to the desktop.
Had to turn off the sound completly to reduce the crashes, now it crashes every other day :O
The force is strong on this project tho so i have confidence it\'ll be much better in the future.  

[lethe]

It doesn\'t even segfaults it just as i enter the tavern|temple|wherever, move to a diferently lighted area....

i could solve this by updating to the latest nvidia driver,  if you own a nvidia card.

[Havox]

Originally posted by lethe
i could solve this by updating to the latest nvidia driver,  if you own a nvidia card.

Im using the nvidia-glx v1.0.7174 package and it doesn\'t give me problems anywhere else :] (The latest are the v1.0-7664)
The thing is i think it has something to do with the sound since i turned it off it crashes less often. Oh and the openal sound doesn\'t work (and crashes as often as the software sound) despite the fact that i do have openal and openal-dev installed (to the latest stable version)
Like i said i believe it\'s the client that needs more work.    :baby:

[lethe]

that is true ... playing without sound is half the fun.

[Havox]

So i just finished updating the nvidia driver (had nothing better to do - now running 1.0-7664).
Still crashes randomly both with sound enabled and disabled. It seems to happen mostly when i change areas or walk to a diferently lighted space, cant really put my finger on it, sometimes it just works sometimes it doesn\'t. Like i said doesn\'t seem to be a problem with my system ergo it should be a bug on the linux client.
I have encountered a gameplay issue not being able to gain 1pt in mining skill and am honestly bored of killing rats for most of the time i play, so i\'ll probably not be playing much until someone answers my thread on the newbie section or i get some more free time.
Hope the linux client devs can work theses problems out, im too lazy to post all the debug stuff

[Havox]

Damn thing crashes @ the worst times   X(

- Ubuntu 5.04
- Xorg 6.8.2-10
- FX5200 drivers- 1.0-7664

:emerald: http://havox.no.sapo.pt/psoutput.log
:emerald: http://havox.no.sapo.pt/csdebug-hav0x.txt

[AryHann]

It might sound stupid but have you tried to disable sounds for avoiding the crashes?

Both CS and PS have sounds problems.

[Havox]

Aye you are right.
I was playing with the sound disabled at the time.
Upated the nvidia drivers but the problems continued until i rebooted (i dont reboot that often heh ) now it usually crashes with sound enabled and only in Hydlaa, i play without a glitch on every other region with software sound but when it loads the Plaza it crashes