[ut2003io] Playing Error

[Dan Fitzpatrick]

Thanks Andrew.  It was an memory problem.  I had forgotten to change the swap 
entry in my fstab file during my last install :blush.  Once I added it then 
rebooted, I can play fine.  Thanks for the help.

weezie



On Tuesday 15 April 2003 03:10 pm, Andrew Pilley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 12:06, Dan Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > I am having a frustrating error trying to play ut2003.  When I try and
> > load a map, single player or multiplayer.  I usually just get the
> > uninlluminating error on the console of "killed."
>
> This sounds to me like it's being killed due to memory constraints.
> after the game is 'Killed', check the output of the command 'dmesg', and
> see if the kernel has said anything about it. it might be the OOM killer
> going nuts, in which case, you might just need more swap (see the
> manpage for mkswap if you want to create a few temporary swapfiles to
> test that theory)
>
> Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley
>
> >  I have attched my log file.  I cannot find
> > anything in it to point to an error.  I am running Gentoo, up to date ,
> > and just instelled openal thinking this would help.  No such luck.  Has
> > anyone else had this problem, and how did you solve it if you did.  I am
> > very ancy to play this game, and am blocked at every attempt.  I did
> > manage to get a backtrace while playing as root.  It read:
> >
> > [code]
> > dangerweasel root # ut2003
> > Signal: SIGTERM [terminate]
> > Requesting Exit.
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > [ 1]  ./Core.so [0x40a0669a]
> > [ 2]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40de11ca]
> > [ 3]  /lib/libc.so.6 [0x40bb3528]
> > [ 4]  /lib/libc.so.6(usleep+0x4a) [0x40c5a90a]
> > [ 5]  ./Core.so [0x40a0e456]
> > [ 6]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40ddb0b0]
> > [ 7]  /lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x44) [0x40c604b4]
> > Signal: SIGTERM [terminate]
> > Aborting.
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > [ 1]  ./Core.so [0x40a0669a]
> > [ 2]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40de11ca]
> > [ 3]  /lib/libc.so.6 [0x40bb3528]
> > [ 4]  ./libSDL-1.2.so.0(SDL_RunAudio+0xa6) [0x400412fa]
> > [ 5]  ./libSDL-1.2.so.0(SDL_RunThread+0x4b) [0x40079dc3]
> > [ 6]  ./libSDL-1.2.so.0 [0x40079fd2]
> > [ 7]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40ddb0b0]
> > [ 8]  /lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x44) [0x40c604b4]
> > Signal: SIGTERM [terminate]
> > Aborting.
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > [ 1]  ./Core.so [0x40a0669a]
> > [ 2]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40de11ca]
> > [ 3]  /lib/libc.so.6 [0x40bb3528]
> > [ 4]  ./openal.so(sdl_blitbuffer+0x38) [0x44205be0]
> > [ 5]  ./openal.so(_alcDeviceWrite+0x44) [0x44207514]
> > [ 6]  ./openal.so(async_mixer_iterate+0xdb) [0x441f29a3]
> > [ 7]  ./openal.so [0x44205e30]
> > [ 8]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x40ddb0b0]
> > [ 9]  /lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x44) [0x40c604b4]
> > Signal: SIGTERM [terminate]
> > Aborting.
> > [/code]
> >
> >
> > This is the only thing I have ever seen at termination other than the
> > killed message.  Thanks for the help in advance.
> >
> > Dan