Debian
solarwolf package

Does not go past the loading screen

Bug #86736 reported by donatello
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
solarwolf (Debian)
New
Unknown
solarwolf (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: solarwolf

I installed the game successfully and tried to play it.
The game does not go past the loading screen in edgy. It is really frustrating because this happened in dapper too. The game worked well in suse. At that time i don't think it used pygame.

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Stuart Langridge (sil) wrote :

This appears to actually be a bug in pygame, which spins forever when some bold or italic fonts are requested. Observe that this hangs:

python -c "import pygame, pygame.font; pygame.font.init(); print pygame.font.SysFont('sans', 14, 1, 1)"

The following patch to /usr/lib/games/solarwolf/txt.py works around the problem:

--- txt.py.orig 2007-03-18 15:02:09.000000000 +0000
+++ txt.py 2007-03-18 15:00:50.000000000 +0000
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
         if FontPool.has_key(val):
             font = FontPool[val]
         else:
+ italic = 0
+ bold = 0 # some not found
             font = SysFont(name, size, bold, italic)
             FontPool[val] = font
         self.font = font

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote :

I can confirm this problem in hardy BETA.

Changed in solarwolf:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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illume (illume) wrote :

Hi,

upgrading to pygame 1.8 fixes this bug(and lots of others).

Please upgrade pygame to the latest version.

cheers,

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in solarwolf:
status: Unknown → New
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David Collins (davidapc) wrote :

For 10.04, Solarwolf 1.5-2 ran perfectly. I played the first few levels, hit ESC, entered my name for the high score and quit.

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