Bug#461330: Does not start on system without sound card

[Emanuele Rocca]

Hi,

* Ronny Standtke <Ronny.Standtke at gmx.net>, [2008-01-17 21:08 +0100]:
>  I tried running pathological on a system without sound card. This failed with 
>  the following error message:
>  ---------------------
>  $ pathological
>  ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
>  ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver 
>  returned error: No such device
>  ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
>  ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned 
>  error: No such device
>  ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
>  ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned 
>  error: No such device
>  ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
>  ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/games/pathological/pathological.py", line 2205, in ?
>      setup_everything()
>    File "/usr/share/games/pathological/pathological.py", line 2188, in 
>  setup_everything
>      pygame.mixer.init()
>  pygame.error: No available audio device
>  ---------------------

Ubuntu uses the following patch to fix this bug:

diff -pruN 1.1.3-8/pathological.py 1.1.3-8ubuntu2/pathological.py
--- 1.1.3-8/pathological.py 2008-06-01 14:14:45.000000000 +0100
+++ 1.1.3-8ubuntu2/pathological.py  2008-06-01 14:13:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -2185,7 +2185,12 @@ def setup_everything():
 
    # Initialize the game module
    pygame.display.init()
-   pygame.mixer.init()
+   try:
+     pygame.mixer.init()
+   except:
+     print "error on pygame.mixer.init() inside setup_everything():"
+     print sys.exc_info()[0],":",sys.exc_info()[1]
+     print "...ignoring it"
    pygame.font.init()
    pygame.key.set_repeat(500, 30)
 
http://patches.ubuntu.com/p/pathological/pathological_1.1.3-8ubuntu2.patch

ciao,
    ema