Bug#716720: billard-gl: Crashes when quitting the game

Markus Koschany apo at gambaru.de
Sun Jul 21 18:11:22 UTC 2013


reassign 716720 freeglut3
forwarded 716720 https://sourceforge.net/p/freeglut/bugs/201/
thanks


On 16.07.2013 22:12, Hans Joachim Desserud wrote:
[...]

> I've done some testing since last time, and I think I've tracked down which change
> caused this issue.
> 
> I have Ubuntu Saucy (the current development release) where the crash is occuring, 
> and Ubuntu 13.04 aka Raring (the latest stable release) where it doesn't crash. Assuming
> whatever causing the crash had been introduced since Raring was released, I figured
> I'd try to install the newer packages on the old system and see what happened.
> 
> First I upgraded billard-gl and -data to 1.17-13, but it closed as expected without any 
> error messages. Ok, next stop dependencies.
> 
> I pulled in the latest version of the freeglut3 package, and then I got the error messages
> and crash when attempting to quit billard-gl. I also verified it went away when I uninstalled
> the package and reinstalled the old one.
> In other words:
> with freeglut3 2.6.0-4ubuntu1 : exits cleanly
> with freeglut3 2.8.1-1 : error message and crash
> 
> I don't have any older Debian releases to test with right now, otherwise I'd done so,
> though since I can reproduce crash in Sid I assume it was also introduced there 
> with the new version of the library.

I think this is most likely a bug and a regression in freeglut3, version
2.8.1. I have forwarded this bug report to freeglut's upstream bug
tracker at sourceforge.net.

https://sourceforge.net/p/freeglut/bugs/201/

I think the way how billard-gl calls "exit" is correct and there is not
much what we can do here to improve the situation.

Regards,

Markus


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