Programs won't start...?

[LameFox]

I recently installed X3: Reunion to my computer running Fedora 12 x86_64

As far as I know I meet all the requirements to run it, it installed properly (or so it seems) and the updater works fine. Except that, while I managed to update it, the game itself never starts. I don't get a crash, or error message, just nothing. I've looked in the system monitor and "top" (I forget where I learned that but it seems to do the same thing) and I don't see anything that looks like it's related, so as far as I can tell it just isn't running at all.

There is a utility on the linuxgamepublishing site called LGP test tool, which they recommend to run for problems. And yet, despite the updater (also LGP) running fine, the test tool has the same problem as the game itself. No error, no crash, just nothing.

I emailed linuxgamepublishing for support, but they need info from the test tool, and suggest there might be some security issue preventing it from running? But it seems that fixing the test tool and the game might involve the same thing, so I guess they can't help for now.

Has anyone else had this problem or have any ideas what might cause it?

[Hlingler]

Try starting these apps from the command line, and observe output. Open the SEtroubleshooter GUI and look for denials (if SELinux = ON).

V

[LameFox]

I got this trying to run them there...

[LameFox@lamefox ~]$ /home/LameFox/x3/x3
x3 2.5, built for i386
Segmentation Fault: Yes, of course I bought enough shields to defend the shi...

This is a BUG, please report it to http://support.linuxgamepublishing.com
Stack dump:
{
	[0xf77e7400]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3() [0x81782a8]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3() [0x817a5e0]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3() [0x81430d6]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3() [0x814a52f]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3() [0x80c9f4d]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3() [0x814eca1]
	/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xa70bb6]
	/home/LameFox/x3/x3(XOpenDisplay+0x91) [0x804fa55]
}

[LameFox@lamefox ~]$ /home/LameFox/testtool/testtool
Testing installation... OK, installed at /home/LameFox/testtool
Base system Test
----------------
Testing architecture of system... 32 bits
Testing system CPU... 2666MHz
Testing CPU flags... MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 
Testing system memory... -133MB

Graphics Test
-------------
Looking for OpenGL library
Rejecting /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1 - wrong architecture
Accepting /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
  Card detected as (null) (null)
  Direct Rendering: No
  Card memory detected as 512MB
  Card antialiasing level 0x
  Card anisotropic level 0x
  Card shader level 0.0

Audio Test
----------
Testing if the system libasound can be used
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
The system libasound is incompatible
The system libasound crashes, use the local one
Testing local library
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
testtool (null), built for (null)
Segmentation Fault: Going down hard...

This is a BUG, please report it to http://support.linuxgamepublishing.com
Stack dump:
{
}

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've emailed it to support as I don't really understand it but I thought I'd post it in the mean time in case it was stupidly obvious to everyone else.

I'm not sure where to find the troubleshooter, though.

[Hlingler]

Don't worry about the SELinux stuff - the output is very clear: both apps seg-fault. These are bugs, as the output says, and must be corrected on their end.

File bug reports at linuxgamepublishing.com.

V

[LameFox]

Okay, thanks.

[poncho68]

I think I had the same problem.
It was possible to start the game with "x3 -s" which disables the sound.

After removing "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" there was no error with the testtool anymore and the game run just fine including sound.