Bug#490119: vegastrike: starts with "Error: no rooms found"

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 04:32:47 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 09 July 2008 07:11:59 pm Thomas Knott wrote:
> Package: vegastrike
> Version: 0.5~svn12126-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> NOTE: The following description is copied from
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30533
> My experience is exactly the same tho the output is different. The error
> messages are the same but of course I included the original output my
> install gave me. (esp since the mandriva-one is about 0.4.3)
>
>
> When Vegastrike starts, it opens with a simple graphic of a ship and a
> message "error: no rooms found". The usual graphics for the base interiors
> are missing; there's just a single screen providing access to Ships,
> Upgrades, Cargo, etc. Dynamic aspects like Missions and News are blank. The
> ship can be launched and can navigate to other locations, but they are also
> missing the usual interior graphics. No other ships are generated for
> ship-to-ship interaction. You're bascially alone in the universe.
>
> Starting from the command line, I get the following:
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> Compiling python module modules/dj.py
>   File "/home/myusername/.vegastrike-0.4.x/modules/dj.py", line 1
>     import dj_lib
>                  ^
>
> This is repeated a lot of times. Then:
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> pox -95124024.543917 412089916.256812 -110779667.398050
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/privateer.py", line 2, in
> <module> from random_encounters import random_encounters
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/random_encounters.py", line 9,
> in <module> import news
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/news.py", line 7, in <module>
>     dnewsman_ = dynamic_news.NewsManager()
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 261, in
> __init__ self.data = DynamicNewsData()
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 120, in
> __init__ import dynamic_news_content
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py", line
> 53 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file
> /usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py on line 53, but
> no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
> details
>
>
> Then some more of the first ones.
> And finally this:
>
> placing ships... ... ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "oceandayklkk.py", line 3, in <module>
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/bases/ocean_lib.py", line 2, in
> <module> import dynamic_mission
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_mission.py", line 7, in
> <module> import dynamic_universe
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_universe.py", line 7,
> in <module> dnewsman_ = dynamic_news.NewsManager()
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 261, in
> __init__ self.data = DynamicNewsData()
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 120, in
> __init__ import dynamic_news_content
>   File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py", line
> 53 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file
> /usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py on line 53, but
> no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
> details dot 0.993099dot 0.993099ERROR: there are no rooms in basefile
> "oceanday.py" ... Asking to undock
> Writing Save Game Autosave-explore_universe_difficultyHi helper play 0
>
> I can reproduce it on two computers, and I tried removing
> ~/.vegastrike-0.4.x but it didn't help.
> Could this be because vegastrike is 0.5svn and vegasrike-data is 0.4.3?
>
> Greetings,
> Thomas

Try issuing the command 'vegastrike explore_universe.mission'. You can 
actually replace 'explore_universe.mission' with any mission file in the 
directory '/usr/share/games/vegastrike/mission/'.

This is fixed in SVN packaging of 0.5.

-- 
Regards,
Andres
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