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

[Georgiy Treyvus]

On 05/20/2013 11:34 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> 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
I never had any problems with 0.7.3-1 or whatever the version was circa
May/June 2012. As far as the switch from autotools to cmake I also
sincerely doubt that has anything whatsoever to do with it. My guess is
that more likely you got a corrupted download from somewhere upstream
and perhaps may not have verified it properly. This is probably no fault
of your own nor of the Debian infrastructure as I'm not sure if the STK
site provides checksums or signatures you can use to verify the
download. It could also be quite possible they pushed out a buggy 0.7.3
but I had no problems with it either with Debian Sid nor from Fedora
Rawhide so I'm not sure what to think.