Going Down Hard...

[Gregory D Hough]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> Do an ldd and report the results.  My gut feeling is a lib version which 
> is reporting as acceptable but in fact isn't quite what the app is 
> expecting.  If this is true then $LD_PRELOAD is your friend.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Rob
> 
I wasn't aware of ldd or gdb and I thank you both. Not much from ldd:

[mr6re9 at mycrowsauce ~]$ ldd -v /usr/local/games/RT2/rt2
         not a dynamic executable

> Peter wrote:
>> 
>> recompile the game with -g and run it under gdb using 'gdb game' then in 
>> gdb 'set args ...' (whatever you would give as args on the command 
>> line), and 'run'. The program will stop with a SIGSEGV at or near where 
>> the problem occured. This will tell you where to look.
>> 
>> good luck,
>> Peter
>> 
>> -- 
I cannot recompile the game without the source. It was installed with 
setup.sh off the CD but here goes...

[mr6re9 at mycrowsauce ~]$ gdb /usr/local/games/RT2/rt2
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.43rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging 
symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library 
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/games/RT2/rt2
warning: shared library handler failed to enable breakpoint

Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32.
0x08203930 in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000420 in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

BUG! (Segmentation Fault)  Going down hard...
Railroad Tycoon II 1.54c
Built with glibc-2.1 on x86
Stack dump:
{
         0x818783e
         0x8166ac4
         0x816692b
         0x816080d
         0x816098e
         0x81578f1
         0x814fec9
         0x814ffa8
         0x8048373
         0x820037d
         0x8048111
}
Please send a full bug report,
along with the contents of autosave to: support-YbCKSAfbhHWakBO8gow8eQ at public.gmane.org
Unable to execute loki_qagent - exiting

Program exited with code 0377.
(gdb) quit

I suppose this means all of my old Loki game CD's are coasters? What are 
those 0x0000000 things and can I get anymore clues from them?
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