Re: [Bug-gnubg] Can't run GNU Backgammon

[Michael Petch]

On 12/02/2012 6:23 PM, Pablo Kisilevski wrote:
> Hi, I install GNU Backgammon in Ubuntu 11.10. I played with it twice but 
> after that, I couldn't run it again. When I try to use the launcher 
> icon, nothing happens, in console, this the result:
> 
> 
> address@hidden:/var/lib$ gnubg -w
> GNU Backgammon 0.90.0  May  1 2011
> Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong.
> Copyright (C) 2009 by Gary Wong and the AUTHORS; for details type `show 
> version'.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show 
> warranty'.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under 
> certain conditions; type `show copying' for details.
> 
> ***WARNING***
> 
> Note that GNU Backgammon does not use the gnubg.bd file.
> You should obtain the file gnubg_ts0.bd or generate
> it yourself using the program 'makebearoff'.
> You can generate the file with the command:
> makebearoff -t 6x6 -f gnubg_ts0.bd
> You can also generate other bearoff databases; see
> README for more details
> 
> 

This warning isn't catastrophic, but if you wish to get rid of this
message issue this command from a command prompt:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnubg

When prompted select "yes" to build the bearoff database. When you run
gnugb again that warning should disappear.


> (gnubg:8845): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

This is interesting. From the command can you run this command and send
the result of these 2 commands in your reply:

locale
uname -a

As for this, this isn't good:

> *** buffer overflow detected ***: gnubg terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x45)[0xc628d5]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe66d7)[0xc616d7]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe5d35)[0xc60d35]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x91)[0xbe6f91]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x7fc)[0xbbb92c]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xc9)[0xc60e09]
> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2f)[0xc60d1f]
> gnubg(CommandSetEvalDeterministic+0xcb)[0x80de8eb]


Can you email a copy of your gnubgautorc file (This has your current
settings in it) directly to address@hidden . You will find this
file in your home directory under:

~/.gnubg/gnubgautorc

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Michael Petch
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