Using the patch from Jeremy Lainé above, I noticed that the crash at the tutorial start was always glGetIntegerv(0xba2) (GL_VIEWPORT).
So I stuck a print before and after each such call in Scene.py and View.py (there's one in GameEngine.py, but Jeremy's patch doesn't log that one) and bizarrely, the tutorial happily played for a while. I think it crashed right after I missed by first note, the second note in the "easy lick". (I was hitting all the other notes, dunno if I was supposed to do that) This time, the crash was glGetDoublev(0xb00) (GL_CURRENT_COLOR). I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I definitely thought it was odd that adding the prints fixed it. The latter crash was the third in a sequence of such calls, but the GL_VIEWPORT crash was not preceded immediately by a GL_VIEWPORT lookup. The only other thing I can think of is that I've using the NVidia binary blob (169.12-1), maybe the people who aren't seeing it are using a different one that uses the mesa GLX? I'm going to try rebuilding python-opengl against the nvidia binary blob in case this is a binary problem of some kind... Hmm, another data point. If I run fof with python2.4, I don't get the crash at the start of the tutorial, but I do get the crash on the song-select screen. With python2.5, the tutorial crash is consistent. If I run python2.5 under gdb, the tutorial doesn't crash immediately either, but the song-select screen does. ... Anyway, just went off and generated some stack traces, which I've attached. Both show what appears to be a segfault at the same point in the nvidia driver's binary blob GL implementation. (Makes sense, they're both calling glGetIntegerv, and probably both caling it with GL_VIEWPORT, although I didn't check that in these stacktraces) The 2.4 backtrace is using a rebuilt with DH_BUILD_DEPS=nostrip python-ctypes based on a rebuilt libffi5 with the patch from the BTS for the critical error and the addition of assembly debugging symbols. In this one, I went straight to the song-select menu The 2.5 backtrace is with stock sid python2.5 and python2.5-dbg installed. (Python2.5 builds in its own ctypes extension, and that seems to not be using the system libffi...) In this, I went to the tutorial and let the countdown complete. So my current theory is that it's the NVidia binary blob, unless someone else with this issue is using a different GLX implementation? -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shorter .sig for a more eco-friendly paperless office.
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