People with installer crashes

[Xordan]

I'm trying to work out why these are happening for some people and not for others. Anyone who experiences a _installer_ crash, can you post the dump file and your system specs here please?

Can those people also try this dummy installer and tell me if it crashes?

http://download.xordan.com/test.bin

[Induane]

Test installer fails.  I can repeat it over and over.

Contents of  Bitrock_Installer.log  :

Log started 08/03/06 at 09:05:09
Preferred installation mode : gtk
Mode gtk successfully initted
Preparing to Install

Contents of bitrock_debug.xml :

<errorDump>
    <dump>6gNRX/N7uSjPI5oWY+XRqdh4ee0CQRcdJ1wfpna5z3MVzDVPWBvUWLFS9bP/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vEBr4A5slzsiDtNtWkulVHPmv0t6UEoswtxA5kFdUtIOPn7J/oFX6sWmXrkY
sAyXU/8i7+1Gqq+PDryfnNLI5h7VILotK9ZxB0wImZ5EwvlgydqjZcnV8f6u
PeC/jQVT0k11+FdzstE=</dump>
    <installerVersion>1.0</installerVersion>
    <platformInfo>Linux 2.6.15-26-386 i686</platformInfo>
</errorDump>

[Xordan]

Ok, can you try again with:

http://download.xordan.com/test2.bin

[Induane]

I have no issues with test2.bin. Install works normally.

[Xordan]

Ok great. Everything is fixed then. I probably won't update the current binary, but the next one will work fine (hopefully) for everyone.

[stevit]

just for completeness (answered your pm allready):
test1: does not crash, but cannot complete through exit script failure
test2: runs fine

[Ylaron]

I reported the bug before. It crashes with the proprietary fglrx rubbish and doesn't crash with the free r300 driver. It happened with the game installer as well as the test installer. The problems with fglrx started after upgrading my debian/sid to Xorg 7.0. Some other programs crash as well.

Perhaps it might be interesting, which driver and Xorg version people are using.

My bitrock_debug.xml:

<errorDump>
    <dump>6gNRX/N7uSjPI5oWY+XRqdh4ee0CQRcdJ1wfpna5z3MVzDVPWBvUWLFS9bP/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</dump>
    <installerVersion>1.0</installerVersion>
    <platformInfo>Linux 2.6.17-rivendell i686</platformInfo>
</errorDump>

[Induane]

I was getting the error with the opensource nv and proprietary nvidia drivers on my geforce cards... so I don't think it had anyhting to do with fglrx... maybe but I doubt it.  I'd think that the driver change was changing something with X that made it work correctly.

[stevit]

mhhh interesting point.

when occured the installer problem i was using the fglrx drivers for x.
During my conversion to modular x i lost them temporary, so my last test (resultiung in an cleen install with the test.bin) are based on other drivers.

I'll give it a try with the old installer to check that.

[Ylaron]

I was getting the error with the opensource nv and proprietary nvidia drivers on my geforce cards... so I don't think it had anyhting to do with fglrx... maybe but I doubt it.  I'd think that the driver change was changing something with X that made it work correctly.

Okay, if the problem exists with nvidia as well there must be something else.

Your assumption about changing the driver corrects somthing about X somewhere else, doesn't make sense to me. I have some sort of dual installation of both drivers, which i created with netenv. Now I can choose the driver in the grub menu. Therefor the driver must have an influance.

[Valbrandr]

In X somewhere else, I meant a problem in the mesa opengl implementation.

[Xordan]

Ok, I've reuploaded the installer.

http://download.xordan.com/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.015b.bin

a5070408f260fbb850bf4edec10648e9

The errors should be fixed now, let me know how it works!

[Nill]

Thanks for the new installer, Xordan. I haven't tested it yet but i will try it tomorrow.

If you want to save Xordan some bandwidth you can also get the installer through:
wget -c http://xrl.us/pslinux315b
wget -c http://xrl.us/pslinux315bmd5  (for the md5sum)
(the option -c is to tell wget to continue the download if it gets interrupted. Of course you can use another downloader of your choice, too)

[zeroGsmith]

Hey thank you for the quick reply..........I typed in what you said.......just copy and paste it right into the console after i changed to root and this is what I got....

AN13GYKW36:/opt/planeshift# chmod -r 777 /opt/planeshift
chmod: cannot access `777': No such file or directory

As you can probably guess Im a linux noob.......I did see the option to give permission to users when I installed the game but Im not sure how to do it.  I only have 3 users.  Admin  Justin Holly.

If I wanted to give access to just Justin when Im installing the game as root/admin what would I type in when it asks if i want to give permissions?

thanks for all your help.

[Xordan]

hmm, you would put

justin:games as the user:group and 700 as the permissions I think.