Bug#771700: [freecol] freecol freezes on intro

[Vincent Fourmond]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Vincent Fourmond <fourmond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> wrote:
>> On 01.12.2014 19:42, Sascha Kühndel (InuSasha) wrote:
>>> Package: freecol
>>> Version: 0.10.7+dfsg-2
>>> Severity: grave
>>>
>>> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>>> On startup in the into movie, freecol freezes. No interaction is possible.
>>> I had tested it with Oracle JDK 1.7.0_72 and openjdk7. The same behavior
>>> on both.
>>>
>>> Problem is known upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/bugs/2703/.
>>> I had added log to the upstream bug report.
>>>
>>> A possible workaround is, to disable the intro.
>>> Add "--no-intro" in /usr/games/freecol to the excecution command.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for the report. It seems upstream hasn't found a real solution
>> for this issue yet but the workaround seems to work. Adding --no-intro
>> to our wrapper script would be a good idea.
>
>   Reading through the whole report, there seems to be problems further
> down (game doesn't start). I'll check that right now.

  As far as I can tell, running with the --no-intro works for me, so
I'll upload that workaround tonight.

  Regards,

      Vincent