Bug#498507: oolite segfaults at startup on amd64 platform

[John Winters]

Package: oolite
Version: 1.65-6+b1
Severity: important


On attempting to run oolite on an AMD64 Lenny system I get the
following:

john at liberty:~$ oolite
2008-09-10 17:37:39.660 oolite[9567] initialising SDL
2008-09-10 17:37:39.765 oolite[9567] init: numSticks=0
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] CREATING MODE LIST
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 1024 x 768
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 800 x 600
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 720 x 450
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 640 x 512
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 512 x 384
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 400 x 300
2008-09-10 17:37:39.766 oolite[9567] Added res 320 x 240
Segmentation fault
john at liberty:~$ 

Running with strace, and quoting the 25 lines leading up to the SEGV
I get:

read(4, 0xb7e5b4, 4096)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR)               = 11
mmap(NULL, 544768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_32BIT, 11, 0) = 0x408e0000
close(11)                               = 0
brk(0xc69000)                           = 0xc69000
brk(0xcb8000)                           = 0xcb8000
select(5, [4], [4], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [4])
writev(4, [{"\241\3\6\0\1\0@\4'\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\1\1\0\221\31\3\0\0\0\0\0\1"..., 36}], 1) = 36
select(5, [4], [], NULL, NULL)          = 1 (in [4])
read(4, "\1m\31\0\1\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0000\5)\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 36
read(4, 0xb7e5b4, 4096)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
getpid()                                = 9245
getpid()                                = 9245
shmdt(0x7f3de8aee000)                   = 0
select(5, [4], [4], NULL, NULL)         = 1 (out [4])
writev(4, [{"\241\4\2\0\1\0@\4+\4\1\0"..., 12}], 1) = 12
select(5, [4], [], NULL, NULL)          = 1 (in [4])
read(4, "\1\2\33\0\0\0\0\0 \0\300\3\0\0\0\0\34C\0\0\0\0\0\0P\2477\373\377\177\0\0"..., 4096) = 32
read(4, 0xb7e5b4, 4096)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL)         = 2 (in [3], out [3])
read(3, "\26\0f\0\16\0 \4\16\0 \4\r\0 \4\0\0\0\0 \3X\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 32
writev(3, [{"+\30\1\0"..., 4}], 1)      = 4
select(4, [3], [], NULL, NULL)          = 1 (in [3])
read(3, "\1\2g\0\0\0\0\0 \0\300\3\0\0\0\0\34C\0\0\0\0\0\0P\2477\373\377\177\0\0"..., 4096) = 32
read(3, 0xb83864, 4096)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, {0x7f3df0fd7740, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3df0dc0a90}, 8) = 0
futex(0x4198b9e0, FUTEX_WAIT, 9246, NULL) = 0
ioctl(6, 0x4122, 0)                     = 0
poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLNVAL}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLIN}])


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-liberty8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages oolite depends on:
ii  gnustep-base-runtime      1.16.1-2lenny1 GNUstep Base library
ii  libc6                     2.7-13         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.3.1-9      GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.0.3-5        A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    7.0.3-5        The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgnustep-base1.16       1.16.1-2lenny1 GNUstep Base library
ii  libobjc2                  4.3.1-9        Runtime library for GNU Objective-
ii  libsdl-image1.2           1.2.6-3        image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2           1.2.8-4        mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.13-2       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  oolite-data               1.65-2         Data files for the space-sim game 

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