Virus Killer Game

[Rob R]

I have installed Virus Killer game via the Add/Remove Software.

On my user login, the game works great, but on my other family members user logins, the games starts, gets to the menu, lets you Start the Game, choose the difficulty level, then it just dumps out to the desktop.

Has anyone else encountered this ?



Rob.

[Firewing1]

Moved to Gamer's lounge

I've seen this once - Try running it from a terminal and posting back the results.
Firewing1

[Flounder]

You may need to launch the game in safe mode that is what I had to do. To do that you need to launch it either from command line or run application in the gui.

[Rob R]

Thank you guys for replying !!


Here is the Error that came back after running from a terminal ...


Fatal signal: Floating Point Exception (SDL Parachute Deployed)




Rob.

[Firewing1]

Have you tried running the game as root?
Firewing1

[Tashiro]

Hello Rob R,

What's your working directory?

Try executing the binary when you are in the binary's path.

execute: whereis <binary>
output: /path/to/binary/<binary>

execute: cd /path/to/binary
execute: ./<binary>


I hope this helps a bit.

Tashiro

[Rob R]

Have you tried running the game as root?
Firewing1


Yes. It does not work when run as root.

It only runs when logged in as me, and no other account.

[Thetargos]

Hello Rob R,

What's your working directory?

Try executing the binary when you are in the binary's path.

execute: whereis <binary>
output: /path/to/binary/<binary>

execute: cd /path/to/binary
execute: ./<binary>


I hope this helps a bit.

Tashiro
If the game uses a laucher script this wouldn't help much (as the launcher may set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other influential environment variables).

[Rob R]

Hello Rob R,

What's your working directory?

Try executing the binary when you are in the binary's path.

execute: whereis <binary>
output: /path/to/binary/<binary>

execute: cd /path/to/binary
execute: ./<binary>


I hope this helps a bit.

Tashiro




I tried this as a test user that I created with the user/group manager. It got to the point when you select the difficultly level, then dumps out the the error message.

[Thetargos]

Yes. It does not work when run as root.

It only runs when logged in as me, and no other account.
Could you please do echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

I hope I'm worng and the game indeed has a launcher to properly setup all paths, but you might have some other paths there... Do you have any other instance of SDL installed?

[Thetargos]

Ok, Installed the game (I have never played this game and it is actually QUITE fun!)

I'm not sure if your problem is due to actual lack of files in the user's home directories, as th game scans for "suitable" fils in your home directory for the virii to infest.

[Rob R]

Ok, Installed the game (I have never played this game and it is actually QUITE fun!)

I'm not sure if your problem is due to actual lack of files in the user's home directories, as th game scans for "suitable" fils in your home directory for the virii to infest.


Oh!! That is an interesting angle on the problem. My test user has extremely little files in the home directy, as does my root. My kids only have a few files with are open office homework docs and some .jpgs.

I am going to copy some files into my test user and see what the results are.


[rob@robinson ~]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[rob@robinson ~]$

[Rob R]

Ok. My 2 girls have lots of files in their home directory, though not many folders.

It still, dumps out after selecting a difficulty level.

On my user account it works perfectly.


I noticed something though, on my login, when I first start the game, it looks like it is quickly scanning directories before displaying the Parallel Realities screen.

On my test user it does not appear to be doing this at all. Maybe that is the problem, and if so, how can I check and fix it ?


Rob.

[Coolerthanyou]

The safemode option is -safemode , you might try that if you're having problems. Nice game, I have played another game from this creator before, I liked project starfighter better. Just wish I could use joypad.

[Rob R]

Success !!

The games runs with the -safemode added. Perfect!

I used the Alacarte to add the -safemode to the command line and it runs from the gnome menu now.




THANK YOU !!!





The safemode option is -safemode , you might try that if you're having problems. Nice game, I have played another game from this creator before, I liked project starfighter better. Just wish I could use joypad.

[JohnVV]

hi i had the same problem and the solution was to gopy some of my src dir to home

there were not enough files there to run it befor