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Old 11-03-2006, 07:23 PM   #1
Jiawen
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Gweled: no play screen, doesn't die nicely


I just upgraded to Mandriva 2007. Among other things, I installed Gweled. When I start the game from the menu, the main play screen is blank. The score numbers sit at zero and the sound plays. When I kill it, it doesn't actually die; the window goes away, but the sound keeps playing, and ps -u me shows that there are two instances of the program running. I have to "killall gweled" to actually get the sound to stop.

I saw a description of a similar problem under BSD, but Mandriva doesn't appear able to do "portupgrade -Rf".

Please help. Thank you.
 
Old 11-04-2006, 01:34 PM   #2
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I can confirm that the program is buggy, but I don't get exactly the same problems you do. I do show two processes running for it though, so I expect that that's its normal operation.

I personally can run and play it just fine, but it hangs when I try to shut it down with an error

"*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0815f998 ***".

The sound does stop on mine, however.

As for your link, that problem seems to be rather different. It was a linking problem that he solved by rebuilding and reinstalling the libtool libary (ports is the BSD system of program management). You could try installing/reinstalling libtool yourself, there must be an rpm for it somewhere, but I'm not sure it will help you much. On Debian gweled doesn't even list libtool as a dependency. OTOH, I tried installing it anyway and gweled now runs much faster than it did before. Go figure. Didn't solve the problems though.

This seems to be the homepage for it. The notes on the page don't give me much confidence for a quick resolution, but I might try building the newest release from source and see what happens.


And by the way, thank you for letting me know that this program exists. I always enjoyed playing bejeweled under windows, and still play it sometimes running under wine, but it's nice to know that there's a native port available. I do wish that there was some way to turn off the sound, though.
 
Old 11-04-2006, 11:03 PM   #3
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I have the same problem as the OP - the main window opens up, but nothing appears in the center and the first few seconds of music repeats itself. I'm not sure I want to spend a lot of time trying to get it to work though, since bejeweled is available as a flash game online here:
http://wisgary.googlepages.com/
 
  


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