Bug #17530, was updated on 2010-Sep-23 02:36 Here is a current snapshot of the bug.
Project: LinCityNG Category: unreproducible Status: Open Resolution: None Bug Group: None Priority: 5 Submitted by: tsu Assigned to : none Summary: Game crashes late on OpenSuSE 11.3 Details: Overall plays well. Crash easily repeatable. For a very long whether you play the game aggressively or conservatively it plays well except for some other non-critical bugs. The real problem is that when the game becomes very "busy" the game may suddenly crash and go to black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. If the game is exited when the game is very busy... often before but certainly about the time that solar plants become available then when the game is exited voluntarily the game will exit, flash approx a quarter sized screen (VGA?) then go to black screen with the blinking cursor. The only way to proceed is to hit CTL-ALT-F5 which seems to logout and exit to command line mode. Logging in as the original User returns to the pre-CTL-ALT-F5 crash (blinking cursor in top left on a black screen). Logging in as a different User is possible, but when attempting to STARTX a debugging error displays which indicates the X Server is already running on instance 0 (zero) and another X Server cannot be started. Didn't try to stop the X Server at that point I've just been doing a shutdown/restart. Without viewing any logfiles, to my eye this looks like a memory bounding error where addresses are improperly written to either when the game has become overly active/busy or something happens when the game exits. OS: OpenSuSE 11.3, KDE 4.4.4 kernel 2.6.34.7-0.2 Hardware: Pavillion dv9500 Core2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz) 4GB RAM GeForce 8600M GS (latest nVidia drivers from nVidia website) 1680x1050 Follow-Ups: Date: 2010-Oct-06 21:55 By: wolfgangb Comment: >From the description I'd guess it might be a hardware or video driver issue. Was it a general problem with games on Suse or was something wrong in their Lincity-NG package? Do they even have one? ------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2010-Sep-25 00:46 By: tsu Comment: Since submitting, I have since found it's likely to be a widely reported problem in the initial RTM of OpenSuSE 11.3 (was released approx 1 month prior to this submission). So, this bug should probably be considered closed. ------------------------------------------------------- For detailed info, follow this link: http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=17530&group_id=2929 _______________________________________________ Lincity-ng-devel mailing list Lincity-ng-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/lincity-ng-devel
