Descent3 and Signal 11

frankjr · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 55

Descent 3 keeps giving me a signal 11 every time after "Analyzing Data...". I've tried powering down and upgrading from linux 2.6.0-test4 to test5, but didn't have any luck with that. I'm not overclocking anything so I don't have an issue with that.

tetrahydroc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 144

Try mounting Descent 3 CD 1, and then

frankjr · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 55

I still get the error...

frankjr · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 55

The sig11 doesn't appear when I use a 2.4 kernel. Could this be a bug in the 2.6 kernel?

dkenn · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 27

Same problem here, looks like something related to the 2.6 kernel, looks like it's segfaulting in strcpy in libstdc, which would seem to indicate a problem within the code of Descent 3 that's being brought to the surface by some change in the 2.6 kernel. Then again, that's just me guessing.

JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

I went ahead and reported it as a bug, but I have little hope for it being resolved since it is not really a problem in glibc or descent3, it's just that descent3 has not been updated to match the current state of glibc. Unfortunately according to Interplay the Linux version of Descent3 is unsupported.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38862

Is there any such thing as a glibc wrapper to support certian calls from older programs? Or can the descent3 binary be hacked to change the strcpy call?
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grahamdrew · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 15

I'm running 2.6.1-mm5 on an nVidia card, and I have no problems with Descent3 whatsoever (latest ebuild). What OpenGL implementation are you using?

JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

I am using nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel.

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ZothOmmog · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject:

Any work-around on this yet? I'd love to play this again...
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wolf31o2 · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:41 am Post subject:

Since I am the maintainer of this ebuild, I am in the process of getting a 2.6 kernel configured and running on my development machine. Hopefully I will be able to find some sort of workaround.
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grahamdrew · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 15

I'm using the nVidia 4496 drivers, and glibc 2.3.2-r9 (latest x86 stable). Id's say try out the mm-sources if you are useing a diffrent 2.6 kernel. Beyond that, I can't think of terribly much that would explain why mine works and yours segfaults. Start comparing CFLAGS on glibc compilation?

ZothOmmog · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject:

nVidia 53.28 drivers here, but I'm also using the same version of glibc & the latest Love kernel (well, I think it is. Seems like there's a new version ever 30 minutes these days).
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ljubo · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

Same problem here.

gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9
2.6.1-mm5
nVidia 53.28 drivers
glibc and gcc are compiled with 2.4.22 headers.

Maybe they should be rebuild with 2.6.1 kernel headers?

Regards, Ljubo

maystorm · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

Installed Descent3 a few days ago (running on kernel 2.4.22).

Sometimes I got signal 11, sometimes not. Once I got it I kept getting it until I rebooted my PC; after that the game was running again. It seemed to me that quitting and restarting the game brings up the problem.

Anyway, I tried to not start "xscreensaver" together with Xfce4 and after that no problem any more!

So, you should try to disable any screen saver programs and try it again. Maybe it helps?

Good luck!
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JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

I am also using XFCE4, and killing the screensaver didnt do anything to help with the problem. Same error below.

Admiral LSD · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:55 am Post subject:

I'm not seeing that problem here, D3 runs like a champ:

gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4
linux-headers-2.6.4
glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207
descent3-1.4.0b
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JonnyRo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 120

How do i get the 2.6.4 linux headers? Whenever i try to emerge linux-headers I get the old 2.4 ones.

I am going to install the gentoo-dev-sources you are using today.
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Admiral LSD · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

You have to do a bit of hacking as they're keyword masked -*. The reason for this is that a number of programs haven't been updated to compile against the new headers however I've only had serious trouble with three programs (svgalib, directfb and mplayer) all of which I believe have been fixed.

Anyway, if you want to use the 2.6 headers here's what you do:

Since the 2.6 headers are hard keyword masked the "normal" methods of unmasking it (package.unmask, package.keywords) aren't going to work. Instead, you have to copy the ebuild and it's patches into your overlay and edit its keywords so that it'll install.

If you haven't already set up an overlay you first have to create the overlay dir. It doesn't matter what this dir is called or where you put it but /usr/local/portage is a popular choice. Once you've created the dir open up make.conf and find the entry for PORTDIR_OVERLAY, uncomment it and edit it to reflect the dir you set up earlier eg:

jgreen · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:09 am Post subject: Work around found!!

I was also getting a Signal 11 (segfault) after the "Analyzing Data.." part of the startup of Descent 3 with Kernel 2.6.3 (in strcpy()). I'm using Mandrake 10.0 though, not gentoo, but I thought I'd post my work around here, since this is the only mention of this problem I could find on the net.

Basically all you have to do is symlink /usr/local/games/Descent3/ppics.hog to PPics.Hog (or just rename it). It worked for me

If you are wondering how I figured this out, strace was my friend. Towards the end of my strace log I found:

open("/usr/local/games/Descent3/PPics.Hog", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/games/Descent3", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=904, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40364000
getdents64(5, /* 33 entries */, 131072) = 1080
munmap(0x40364000, 135168) = 0
close(5) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
write(2, "SIGNAL 11 caught, aborting\n", 27SIGNAL 11 caught, aborting) = 27

Since this area is being mmaped it is likely a bug in Descent3 that wasn't being triggered by kernel 2.4, not sure though. I wonder where the proper place to post this type of info would be. I'll check linuxgames.com, any other suggestions? It would be nice to have some updated FAQs on these games, especially since they are no longer supported. Regards,
Josh Green

wolf31o2 · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

jgreen, you are the man... I have now fixed this in portage... everyone simply emerge sync && emerge descent3 for all the 2.6 goodness...

...as to where to submit, I would try icculus.org and the Linux Gaming FAQ. That seems like a good location for this sort of thing.
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jgreen

I did submit this information to one of the contacts for the Linux Gaming FAQ (as a user on the Linux Game Tome forums also suggested), so hopefully it ends up there. I had not known about this FAQ before, seems like there is a lot of goodness on icculus.org that is semi hard to find. I'm glad to have been able to figure this out, for myself as well as others who want to play Descent3 with kernel 2.6

Regards,
Josh Green

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

This didn't fix it for me. I have the :

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 14 20:40 PPics.Hog -> ppics.hog

but i still get the sig11

I've tried both installing this from the cd (then upgrading using the fixed loki_update from icculus.org) and by emerging this.

The strace complains about missing a lot of .so files (AIGame.so, etc) and also alos of .fmt files (menu.fmt)

Any ideas? I can send the strace to something if you'd like.

Thanks
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jgreen · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

It might be crashing for another reason than what that little "fix" solves. Those straces get pretty big. If you had a spot on the net that you could put it where I could dl'd it I would check it out. The most useful info is usually at the end anyways. Often times you have to give the '-f' switch to trace process children as well, not sure if I had to do this with descent3 or not. Cheers.

jedioetzi · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:

I get still same problem
with 2.6.8-gentoo-r3
linux headers 2.4.21-r1
glibc 2.3.3.20040420-r1

Xamindar · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:20 am Post subject: