Bug#786758: doomsday: segfault on startup

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 05:11:10PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > When trying to start doomsday, it pops up a dialog which says:
> > .----====[ Doomsday Engine ]
> > App init failed:
> >  "[NotFoundError] (Record::subrecord) Subrecord 'alert' not found"
> > `----
> > then crashes with a segmentation fault.
> 
> This seems to be an incompatibility with persist.pack files from older versions.
> 
> If you backup ~/.doomsday/runtime/persist.pack to somewhere else, does
> that work around the problem?

Yes, it helped, no crash.

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