Linux client error

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Just downloaded the Linux client binaries and the 1.2 GB package of resource
files from Bioware (version 1.29, not upgraded yet) and unpacked them
into /usr/games/nwn. When I run the nwn script, I get this error:

Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

It doesn't give any useful information as far as I can tell.

Would I be better off deleting the downloaded resource files and copying the
necesary files from my Windows install once I have NTFS support working, or
is there something that can be done the way I have things right now?

 

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Paul Fedorenko wrote:

> Just downloaded the Linux client binaries and the 1.2 GB package of
> resource files from Bioware (version 1.29, not upgraded yet) and unpacked
> them
> into /usr/games/nwn. When I run the nwn script, I get this error:
>
> Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
>
> It doesn't give any useful information as far as I can tell.
>
> Would I be better off deleting the downloaded resource files and copying
> the necesary files from my Windows install once I have NTFS support
> working, or is there something that can be done the way I have things
> right now?
I usually have a problem when I install linux games into the /usr/games
folder.

when I install the games into my home directory in a games folder
i.e /home/username/games/nwn
it cures quite a lot of problems, as /usr/games does not always have full
permissions access for local users.

BL

 

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Paul Fedorenko wrote:
| Just downloaded the Linux client binaries and the 1.2 GB package of resource
| files from Bioware (version 1.29, not upgraded yet) and unpacked them
| into /usr/games/nwn. When I run the nwn script, I get this error:
|
| Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
|
| It doesn't give any useful information as far as I can tell.

I've never got that*, but I do recall that a lot of people did back when the linux
client was first released - in other words, it's a problem that has already been
solved. I would strongly advise doing a search on the Bioware boards, because it's
been discussed there; possibly by a dev or two.

* I think. I vaguely remember mucking around with symlinks and opengl though, so ymmmv.

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Hello, your problem is that the SDL libraries are not well installed. in
fact if you run glxgears, it should also give you an error (in my case it
crashes X window)

Do the following :

What card do you have ? In case of Nvidia, do you have the latest nv
drivers ?

in the /etc/X11/XF86Config

do you have : Load "glx"
and commented /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so

Try also to run the following script. it corrects conflicts with different
drivers beeing loaded

http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/nv_check.sh
ftp://www.p-two.net/pub/nv_check.sh

Hope it helps

Alex


Brian Leyland wrote:

> Paul Fedorenko wrote:
>
>> Just downloaded the Linux client binaries and the 1.2 GB package of
>> resource files from Bioware (version 1.29, not upgraded yet) and unpacked
>> them
>> into /usr/games/nwn. When I run the nwn script, I get this error:
>>
>> Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
>>
>> It doesn't give any useful information as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Would I be better off deleting the downloaded resource files and copying
>> the necesary files from my Windows install once I have NTFS support
>> working, or is there something that can be done the way I have things
>> right now?
> I usually have a problem when I install linux games into the /usr/games
> folder.
>
> when I install the games into my home directory in a games folder
> i.e /home/username/games/nwn
> it cures quite a lot of problems, as /usr/games does not always have full
> permissions access for local users.
>
> BL

 

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None wrote:
| Hello, your problem is that the SDL libraries are not well installed. in
| fact if you run glxgears, it should also give you an error (in my case it
| crashes X window)
|
| Do the following :
|
| What card do you have ? In case of Nvidia, do you have the latest nv
| drivers ?

Eek! You don't want to run NWN with the nv drivers, you want the nvidia drivers.
There's quite a difference.


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Leo Fellmann wrote:

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> None wrote:
> | Hello, your problem is that the SDL libraries are not well installed. in
> | fact if you run glxgears, it should also give you an error (in my case
> | it crashes X window)
> |
> | Do the following :
> |
> | What card do you have ? In case of Nvidia, do you have the latest nv
> | drivers ?
>
> Eek! You don't want to run NWN with the nv drivers, you want the nvidia
> drivers. There's quite a difference.

That's all pretty much moot because I've got a Radeon 9000, running whatever
drivers came with the distro out of the box. I'm a little leery of
installing ATi's drivers, which I've heard are really good, because I don't
know the ins and outs of X all that well, and don't want to start messing
things up.

The game ran (kinda mostly) on my old (out of the box) Fedora Core 1
install, but I wiped that out and installed Core 3 from scratch.

 

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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Fedorenko <pfedorenko@look.ca> writes:

Paul> Just downloaded the Linux client binaries and the 1.2 GB
Paul> package of resource files from Bioware (version 1.29, not
Paul> upgraded yet) and unpacked them into /usr/games/nwn. When I
Paul> run the nwn script, I get this error:

Paul> Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute
Paul> Deployed)

Paul> It doesn't give any useful information as far as I can tell.

Paul> Would I be better off deleting the downloaded resource files
Paul> and copying the necesary files from my Windows install once
Paul> I have NTFS support working, or is there something that can
Paul> be done the way I have things right now?

Can you post an "ls -l" from the lib directory of your NWN Linux
directory ?

Almost sure the linker can't find the SDL lib ...

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that smashes the stack can cause a return from the routine to jump to
a random address, resulting in some of the most insidious
data-dependent bugs known to mankind.

 

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Paul Fedorenko wrote:
| Leo Fellmann wrote:
|
|
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|>None wrote:
|>| Hello, your problem is that the SDL libraries are not well installed. in
|>| fact if you run glxgears, it should also give you an error (in my case
|>| it crashes X window)
|>|
|>| Do the following :
|>|
|>| What card do you have ? In case of Nvidia, do you have the latest nv
|>| drivers ?
|>
|>Eek! You don't want to run NWN with the nv drivers, you want the nvidia
|>drivers. There's quite a difference.
|
|
| That's all pretty much moot because I've got a Radeon 9000, running whatever
| drivers came with the distro out of the box. I'm a little leery of
| installing ATi's drivers, which I've heard are really good, because I don't
| know the ins and outs of X all that well, and don't want to start messing
| things up.

I've never done it, not having a radeon card, but it should be merely a matter of
replacing a driver name in XF86Config.
Assuming the install script actually does it's job properly.

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