Bug#558270: warsow: fails to start with an oscure error message

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 27.11.2009 15:41, schrieb Bruno Kleinert:
> Does the other machine have the same or similar video card? Ideally you
> should check again on a machine with a video card from a different
> vendor.

It once happened on my "real" computer at home (it has a Radeon 9500 
[i.e. R300] type GPU from ~2003 running woth the free "radeon" driver) 
and in a Virtual Box just now. I assume, both video hardware could 
hardly be more different. ;)

> I often experienced bug reports about crashing games but the real
> culprit was a bug in Mesa (libGL.so) :(

There is a comment in an ubuntu bug which claims "it seems to be a 
general warsow problem with i386 architecture. It's not possible to 
reproduce with x64. warsow 0.5 is affected too". o_O

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/warsow/+bug/442003>

Cheers,
Fabian