Bug#708996: supertuxkart keeps crashing randomly and one of the sprites is mangled

Vincent Cheng vincentc1208 at gmail.com
Mon May 20 15:34:30 UTC 2013


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:22 AM,  <georgiytreyvus at riseup.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:55 PM,  <georgiytreyvus at riseup.net> wrote:
>>> package: supertuxkart
>>> version: 0.7.3-2
>>>
>>> For reasons I can't ascertain supertuxkart keeps crashing randomly. Also
>>> one of the sprites/karts the monkey "Suzanne" is horribly mangled.
>>>
>>> In like June of last year I was using Debian Sid with supertuxkart
>>> version
>>> 0.7.3 and it worked just fine without any issues.
>>>
>>> Maybe consider recompiling a slightly older/newer patch of version 0.7.3
>>> and replacing it with what's now in Wheezy.
>>
>> This is a known issue, see #619071, #677609, #695747 (and the dozen or
>> so bugs on launchpad, for ubuntu) for the crashes and #679837 for
>> Suzanne being incorrectly rendered.
>>
>> I'll prepare a backport of stk 0.8 for wheezy users soon. Of course,
>> if you're willing to dig into this further, I'd gladly accept
>> non-intrusive patches (i.e. acceptable for a stable update) to fix
>> whatever's causing this issue in irrlicht/stk.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vincent
>>
> Like in early June of 2012 when I used STK 0.7.3 from Sid it worked
> perfectly. Wouldn't the simplest solution be to just replace the current
> version of STK 0.7.3 with the one that was in Sid in like June 2012? Or
> are there dependency or security issues I'm missing here?
>

It took a few months for anyone to discover stk 0.7.3 had any
stability issues and to report it (I certainly didn't, and wouldn't
have uploaded stk 0.7.3 if I had caught this in my testing). FWIW, the
diff between 0.7.3-1 and -2 is misleadingly large; the only change
that took place between the stk version that I uploaded to Sid in June
2012 (0.7.3-1) and the current version in wheezy (0.7.3-2) is that the
build system was switched from autotools to cmake, which I highly
doubt caused this issue. In other words, I feel fairly confident in
saying that it's only a matter of time before you hit the same issue
with stk 0.7.3-1.

Regards,
Vincent



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