Bug#490119: vegastrike: "No Rooms Found"

[Curt Howland]

Package: vegastrike
Version: 0.5~svn12126-2+b1
Followup-For: Bug #490119


I just updated to the latest version in Sid, the error is still occurring.

Here is what seems to be the relevant output from the command line:

refusing to bind command to joystick (joy-nr too high)
FOUND MODIFICATION = test2 FOR PLAYER #0
CREATING A LOCAL SHIP : llama.begin
Hi helper play 0
Herepox -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
Force feedback support disabled when compiled
Loading completed, now network init
Loading active missions True
dot 0.993099Purging...

and 

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 0.993099ERROR: there are no rooms in basefile "oceanday.py" ...
Asking to undock
Writing Save Game Autosave-explore_universe_difficultyHi helper play 0
HereAL lib: ALc.c:1255: exit() 1 device(s) and 1 context(s) NOT deleted
AL lib: alSource.c:2291: alcDestroyContext(): 32 Source(s) NOT deleted
AL lib: alBuffer.c:1097: exit() 17 Buffer(s) NOT deleted



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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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                1:4.3.1-8         GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3-5           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.3-5           The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-3         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  libopenal1             1:1.4.272-1       Software implementation of the Ope
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             4.3.1-8           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              2.5.2-9           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  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.

vegastrike suggests no packages.

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