Going Down Hard...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:10:20PM -0400, Gregory D Hough wrote:
> I have an old linux game I can't get working. I've installed and patched 
> but it won't run. This is the only clue I have:
> 
> 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
> }
> 
> I'm trying to run it on Fedora Core 3 and my glibc is 2.3.5-0.fc3.1. I 
> also have installed the nvidia driver which required commenting out load 
> "dri" in xorg.conf if that means anything. Google has not been my friend 
> with this. I haven't tried to install this game since RH9.

I actually wonder what makes it the fc3 version of glibc 2.3.5?

In the past redhat had released incompatible libc versions.  Do they
still do that or is this just an issue of a glibc2.1 program doesn't
like 2.3?

Check if the rt program is just a shell script and if so find the real
executable and see if ldd works on it.

Are you running the latest version of it?

ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/lokigames/updates/rt2/ has the patches to go to
latest version.

It does look like you are running the latest.

There is also some stuff about loki and segfaulting here:
http://goldenfiles.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=lokipatchfix&type=readme

Also this site has a list of hints on running old loki games on current
systems (ubuntu in their case):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21087

Apparently a common one is: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 game_to_run

Also here: http://members.shaw.ca/dan.mckay/LokiInst.html

Lennart Sorensen
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