missing sdl_driver.so causes wings3d to crash on startup

Bug #1088 reported by Ralf Hölzemer
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libsdl-erlang (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

Reproduction Steps:

1) install wings3d
2) start it from an terminal

upon start of wings3d the following error message appears:

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Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.6 [source] [threads:0]

Reading preferences from: /home/ralf/.wings
Eshell V5.4.6 (abort with ^G)
1> Driver...

Reproduction Steps:

1) install wings3d
2) start it from an terminal

upon start of wings3d the following error message appears:

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Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.6 [source] [threads:0]

Reading preferences from: /home/ralf/.wings
Eshell V5.4.6 (abort with ^G)
1> Driver Failed {error,{open_error,"/usr/lib/erlang/lib/esdl-0.94.1025/priv/sdl _driver.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"}}

=ERROR REPORT==== 19-Jun-2005::15:40:15 ===
Error in process <0.31.0> with exit value: {badarg,[{erlang,port_control,[esdl_p ort,21,<<4 bytes>>]},{sdl,init,1},{wings_init,init,0},{wings,init,1}]}

sh: line 0: exec: sdl_driver: not found

Fatal internal error - log written to /home/ralf/wings_crash.dump

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copying the missing sdl _driver.so from another package to /usr/lib/erlang/lib/esdl-0.94.1025/priv/ resolved the issue for me.

see also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?postid=204629&highlight=sdl_driver.so#post204629

Changed in libsdl-erlang:
assignee: nobody → motu
Revision history for this message
Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

Appears to be a problem with libsdl-erlang. I am uploading a fixed (albeit newer) version of libsdl-erlang. Once that hits the archive I will rebuild wings with it. Thank you.

Changed in libsdl-erlang:
status: New → Fixed
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