Bug#905865: armagetronad: sometimes fails to start, often fails to actually quit

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: armagetronad
Version: 0.2.8.3.4-2
Severity: normal

Hello!

I've just installed armagetronad: thanks for maintaining it in Debian!
I am experiencing a weird behavior, though.

The first time I started the game from an xterm, I obtained the following
output:

  A$ armagetronad
  Trying to start sound. Just restart Armagetron Advanced in case of crash.

and then nothing happened for a long time. The process armagetronad.real
was running, but nothing was apparently happening.
Hitting [Ctrl+C] was useless. Until I decided to kill the process from
another xterm:

  B$ killall -KILL armagetronad.real 

Of course, the effect on the first xterm was:

  ^C^C^C^CKilled

At the second try, I obtained the same output:

  A$ armagetronad
  Trying to start sound. Just restart Armagetron Advanced in case of crash.

but, this time, the game started and was playable (and enjoyable!).
The weird behavior is that, after playing for a while, I selected
"Exit game" and I was brought back to my desktop session, as expected,
but the process did not actually exit and I failed to get my prompt back
on the xterm. Until I had to kill the process from another xterm:

  B$ killall -KILL armagetronad.real 

Once again, the effect on the first xterm was:

  Killed

On the third try, I got no output regarding sound, but I again had to kill
the process, after exiting from the game:

  A$ armagetronad
  Killed

On the fourth and fifth tries, the game again failed to start:

  A$ armagetronad
  ^CKilled

On the sixth try, the game started and exited without issues:

  A$ armagetronad
  A$

On the seventh and eighth tries, the game again failed to start:

  A$ armagetronad
  ^CKilled

On the ninth try, the game again failed to quit, but this time I could
kill it with [Ctrl+C]:

  A$ armagetronad
  ^C

And so forth...


Please investigate the issues and fix this bug.
Thanks for your time, bye!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages armagetronad depends on:
ii  armagetronad-common     0.2.8.3.4-2
ii  libc6                   2.27-5
ii  libgcc1                 1:8.2.0-3
ii  libgl1                  1.0.0+git20180308-3
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx         18.1.5-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]  9.0.0-2.1
ii  libpng16-16             1.6.34-2
ii  libsdl-image1.2         1.2.12-8
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.15+dfsg2-1
ii  libstdc++6              8.2.0-3
ii  libxml2                 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b1

armagetronad recommends no packages.

armagetronad suggests no packages.

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