Bug#490119: vegastrike: starts with "Error: no rooms found"

[Thomas Knott]

Package: vegastrike
Version: 0.5~svn12126-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

NOTE: The following description is copied from 
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30533
My experience is exactly the same tho the output is different. The error 
messages are the same but of course I included the original output my install 
gave me. (esp since the mandriva-one is about 0.4.3)


When Vegastrike starts, it opens with a simple graphic of a ship and a message
"error: no rooms found". The usual graphics for the base interiors are missing;
there's just a single screen providing access to Ships, Upgrades, Cargo, etc.
Dynamic aspects like Missions and News are blank. The ship can be launched and
can navigate to other locations, but they are also missing the usual interior
graphics. No other ships are generated for ship-to-ship interaction. You're
bascially alone in the universe.

Starting from the command line, I get the following:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Compiling python module modules/dj.py
  File "/home/myusername/.vegastrike-0.4.x/modules/dj.py", line 1
    import dj_lib
                 ^

This is repeated a lot of times. Then:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax
pox -95124024.543917 412089916.256812 -110779667.398050
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/privateer.py", line 2, in <module>
    from random_encounters import random_encounters
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/random_encounters.py", line 9, in <module>
    import news
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/news.py", line 7, in <module>
    dnewsman_ = dynamic_news.NewsManager()
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 261, in __init__
    self.data = DynamicNewsData()
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 120, in __init__
    import dynamic_news_content
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py", line 53
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file /usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py on line 53, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details


Then some more of the first ones.
And finally this:

placing ships... ... ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "oceandayklkk.py", line 3, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/bases/ocean_lib.py", line 2, in <module>
    import dynamic_mission
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_mission.py", line 7, in <module>
    import dynamic_universe
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_universe.py", line 7, in <module>
    dnewsman_ = dynamic_news.NewsManager()
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 261, in __init__
    self.data = DynamicNewsData()
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news.py", line 120, in __init__
    import dynamic_news_content
  File "/usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py", line 53
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file /usr/share/games/vegastrike/modules/dynamic_news_content.py on line 53, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
dot 0.993099dot 0.993099ERROR: there are no rooms in basefile "oceanday.py" ...
Asking to undock
Writing Save Game Autosave-explore_universe_difficultyHi helper play 0

I can reproduce it on two computers, and I tried removing ~/.vegastrike-0.4.x 
but it didn't help. 
Could this be because vegastrike is 0.5svn and vegasrike-data is 0.4.3? 

Greetings, 
Thomas


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-10.slh.1-sidux-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vegastrike depends on:
ii  freeglut3              2.4.0-6.1         OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libboost-python1.34.1  1.34.1-11         Boost.Python Library
ii  libc6                  2.7-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libexpat1              2.0.1-4           XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-5         GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3-4           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.4-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.3-4           The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libogg0                1.1.3-4           Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenal0a            1:0.0.8-8         OpenAL is a portable library for 3
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-2          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a            1.2.0.dfsg-3.1    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3         1.2.0.dfsg-3.1    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxmu6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  python2.5              2.5.2-7           An interactive high-level object-o
hi  vegastrike-data        0.4.3-5           data files for vegastrike
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

vegastrike recommends no packages.

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