Bug#434331: Fails to start: mixer system not initialized

[Damyan Ivanov]

Package: funnyboat
Version: 1.5-1
Severity: important

Hi, this might as well be grave, but seeing no one reported it already,
I assume that the game works for other people.

When I try to start it, I get:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/games/funnyboat/main.py", line 124, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/share/games/funnyboat/main.py", line 65, in main
    init()
  File "/usr/share/games/funnyboat/main.py", line 32, in init
    steamboat.init()
  File "/usr/share/games/funnyboat/steamboat.py", line 12, in init
    Steamboat.death_sound = util.load_sound("blub")
  File "/usr/share/games/funnyboat/util.py", line 109, in load_sound
    return pygame.mixer.Sound("data/" + name + ".ogg")
pygame.error: mixer system not initialized
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"aoss funnyboat" makes no difference.

Please tell me if there is something else I should try.

strace shows that funnyboat opens /etc/esound/esd.conf. Does it depend
on a running ESD?

    dam

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages funnyboat depends on:
ii  python               2.4.4-6             An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-numeric       24.2-8              Numerical (matrix-oriented) Mathem
ii  python-pygame        1.7.1release-4.1+b1 SDL bindings for games development
ii  python-pyogg         1.3-1.1             A Python interface to the Ogg libr
ii  python-support       0.6.4               automated rebuilding support for p
ii  ttf-bitstream-vera   1.10-7              The Bitstream Vera family of free 

funnyboat recommends no packages.

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