Bug#784166: widelands: Game crashes on song change

[Bernhard Übelacker]

Hello Alex,

> One last question: did you try to install the amd64 version specifically?
> I'm not sure how the multi-arch support works these days. If not, would it
> be easy for you to try to do it?
Yes, my tests were done on my regular amd64 desktop installation.
That was with widelands_18-3+b1_amd64.deb.


> Thank you for taking the time to look into the issue! I wish I could
> downgrade the libboost packages needed to compile the source code to see if
> the build would have the bug or not. They are not in the dependencies but
> are on the build-deps: https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/widelands
>
> I am actually running Squeeze with some packages from Stretch.
>
> I did a manual build from the source code and the game runs fine, with
> these exact packages you listed for me. I am still suspecting the problem
> to be libboost (check the bug report I mentioned earlier for why) even
> though I can't be sure. I guess I should probably close the bug if we
> cannot reproduce it, since it could be due to my weird package mix?

For the fun of it I tried to really reproduce the situation (qemu-VM):
- installed Squeeze LTS with LXDE
- added Stretch sources.list

But I was not able to cleanly install widelands via apt.
Trying to manually installing via dpkg led also to some (for me) 
unresolvable dependencies (without doing nearly half of the dist-upgrade).
Therefore I am short before thinking that now your package system is in 
an inconsistent state.


 > Unfortunately I got myself into a sort of a deadlock with that and
 > need to reinstall the system from scratch.

As I think you also did a libc-upgrade (2.11.3-4+deb6u5 to 2.19-18 ?)
I cannot say how a downgrade of it has to be done.
Probably a dist-upgrade to Jessie or Stretch could work ...
(But for this to work the package system needs to be consistent - you 
have checked what "apt-get install -f" proposes?)

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At least, the problem this report was opened for seems to be a result of 
the package mix of Squeeze and Stretch.

Kind regards,
Bernhard