Fedora 10 - Segmentation Fault

[Psignosis]

Hmm... about a year onward, I try to Download and install Planeshift again...

Last time, I had graphics issues. Game worked but all 3d stuff was gone and only big transparent box's remained.

This time... its even more interesting...

[root@localhost Download]# ./PlaneShift-v0.4.03-x86.bin
Segmentation fault
[root@localhost Download]#

Im running a freshly installed Fedora 10 distro (x86).

I tried with and without root.

Anyway, Keep up the good work guys. I'll try again in another six months.

[Nykolai Raskaniov]

Compare checksum with the original one, or try to download from another source. Segmentation fault on running the installer is not one of the known bugs.

[peeg]

If md5sum matches try to run the installer with "--mode text" (or similar, can't check atm :S --help should give you the details in case i'm mistaken)

Good luck!

[Psignosis]

I tried installing with --mode text and it went through smoothly. So I ran pssetup, then I ran psclient. Everything appeared to load correctly but the moment I typed in my email address from front screen and clicked okay, the screen vanished and died.

I had done an md5sum on it and the numbers where different from the Planeshift page... Im not sure if there could be reasons for this or not. I had downloaded the file Direct so I see reason that there may have been a download inconsistency. Anyway, I downloaded the Linux x86 torrent, threw my previously downloaded copy of Planeshift into it to see and then clicked verify file. It had a bit of a think but generally skipped over it all and passed the hash check. It wasnt able to detect any problems and just ran off to seeding as though it was a newly downloaded file. So Im not sure about the checksum? When I run md5sum Planeshiftxxxx its still giving me a different number than whats on your download page, which I dont understand?

Anyway, I ran psclient from Console again, typed email and clicked Okay then it died again. Planeshift just vanished and left me with my desktop background looking back at me. I picked up a log trace:

Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_MARRIAGE flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_MESSAGES flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_CACHE flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_PETS flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_USER flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_LOOT flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_DUELS flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, LOG_TRIBES flag deactivated with no filter.
Fri Dec 12 00:50:08 2008, All LOGS are off.
Mounting skin: /this/art/skins/elves.zip
Mounting skin: /planeshift/art/skins/base/client_base.zip
  psEngine initialized.
Using fontsize 13 for resolution 800x600
WARNING! Object 'spikes_03' is not closed!
WARNING! Object '_s_walls_01' is not closed!
WARNING! Object '_s_sigil_01' is not closed!
WARNING! Object '_s_sigil_05' is not closed!
WARNING! Object '_s_bridge_01' is not closed!
WARNING! Object '_s_sigil_03' is not closed!
...
(0) : fatal error C9999: *** exception during compilation ***
Cg compiler terminated due to fatal error[root@localhost PlaneShift]#

Incidentally... as its probably one of the questions needed to diagnose this... do I have Drivers installed?

# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

So at this point, I dont really know. I tried to read your Linux specific issues but I couldnt find anything on this issue. Its not asking for Libraries that I can tell? As far as I know, I've got a fairly standard stock install of Fedora 10. I dont imagine Fedora to be an un-common distro as I could only assume Fedora and Ubuntu would be the most popular.

# lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]

# lsmod

radeon                233424  3

?

Aside from the obvious usual things that go wrong, it doesnt seem to be one of them. Other 3d games work fine on this machine so at this point, I can only conclude that its got to be a Planeshift programming fault. At the very least, a fault in having cryptic error messages that dont help identify the cause.

Anyway... not sure what else to say at this point. Enjoy.

[Psignosis]

Incidentally, I followed this guys thread well :

http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=34182.0

I ran psupdater -repair

I got all excited but sadly... same.

Okay, Im definitely giving up now heh...

[peeg]

server glx vendor string: SGI

... looks a bit strange to me. Are you using ATI's official drivers?

[shumi]

there are no official ATI drivers for fedora 10 yet !!!!

btw. i have no problems running planeshift on fedora 8 (except the usual ones)

[brokenknee]

Had same problem. Seg Fault right off the bat. MD5sums on the download page are not for the current version.

Check: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=31776.105 and http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=19389.0

~brokenknee

[hollywoodb]

I can verify that PlaneShift-v0.4.03-x86.bin does indeed segfault when you run it under Fedora 10.  The md5sum matches, there isn't anything wrong with the download.  Running the installer with "--mode text" worked and Planeshift installed successfully.  Post-install I ran psupdater, pssetup, and psclient (in that order), and I just finished the tutorial.  The client runs acceptably at 800x600 on my integrated Intel graphics laptop.

[rasjani]

One more report about the same incident.

Running on Fedora 10, i do however have the official ati drivers installed.

Installer binary is segfaulting if you dont run it with --mode text

Game however patched and ran fine atleast into few first meters of the tutorial..


PS. FYI Md5sum didnt match because download links point to 0.4.03 and the md5sum on the download page is for earlier release. The sum is the same with the post in to forums thou.