Vincent

2 simple reasons: 1) I finally have some spare time now that exams are over. 2) The freeze date for Debian wheezy is rapidly approaching (mid-June), and I want to clear up the backlog of stuff that I intend to package before that happens. 0 A.D. has been sitting on my packaging TODO list for months now. I'm somewhat surprised that Ubuntu picked up 0 A.D. so quickly (I thought Debian import freeze took place back in January?), but then again, I'm not as familiar with Ubuntu's release cycle as I am with that of Debian. Anyways, I just wanted to give a shoutout to ricotz for his packaging work (which I used as a base for my own set of packages) and to fabio for all his help and advice these past few weeks as I packaged 0 A.D. Thanks!

$ gzip -V gzip 1.3.12 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Jean-loup Gailly. It's the stock gzip that comes with Debian. Hmmm...I just did a bit of poking around and came up with Debian bug #627121 and it looks like I might not be the only one who's experiencing this problem. I have no idea what may be causing it though.

Oh, I thought that the release of r09530 tarballs meant that Alpha 5 was out already...sorry about that. The hashsums match, but I still seem to be unable to extract the gzipped tarball. I'm also perfectly capable of extracting other gzipped tarballs without a single problem, so I'm sort of stumped at the moment. But the xz tarball works, so I don't mind all that much.

Congrats on releasing Alpha 5! I look forward to playing it and checking out all the new features. However, it looks like there might be a problem with the release tarballs, i.e. $ wget -q http://releases.wildfiregames.com/0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-build.tar.gz $ tar xzf 0ad-r09530-alpha-unix-build.tar.gz gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The xz-compressed archive works just fine though. Is it perhaps possible to provide hashsums for the tarballs, so it'd be possible to confirm whether or not it might be a faulty download or something like that?

Just tested the patch as well, and now 0ad builds and runs itself without a hitch! Thank you! Now I can finally enjoy the game.

Hi, I was pointed here from another thread (http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14568), where I reported a similar (likely the same) issue. I've also attached a log of strace as well, if it helps any. If it's of any relevance, I'm running 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux, with a kernel based on 2.6.38. output.txt

$ uname -r 2.6.38-2.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 It's a customized kernel based on 2.6.38-2 (however, I also have Debian's official 2.6.32 (from testing) and 2.6.38 (from Sid) kernels installed). I'll take a look at that other thread and see if there's anything I can do to help.

Hi, (Sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forums or anything like that.) I've recently just heard of 0 A.D., and I was intrigued enough to want to give it a try. However, after building alpha 4 (r09049) on my 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux system and running it, I always get the following error: vincent@vincent-laptop:~$ 0ad TIMER| InitVfs: 559.22 us TIMER| InitScripting: 3.7298 ms ERROR: Error initializing FAM; hotloading will be disabled file.cpp(130): Function call failed: return value was -110301 (Error during IO) Function call failed: return value was -110301 (Error during IO) Location: file.cpp:130 (WaitUntilComplete) Call stack: (0x6f684d) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6f684d] (0x6b6fe1) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6b6fe1] (0x6b7e31) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6b7e31] (0x6b81ed) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6b81ed] (0x702338) ./pyrogenesis() [0x702338] (0x6ccc97) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6ccc97] (0x6cbb8b) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6cbb8b] (0x6c7fd9) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6c7fd9] (0x70af89) ./pyrogenesis() [0x70af89] (0x708181) ./pyrogenesis() [0x708181] (0x6cde84) ./pyrogenesis() [0x6cde84] (0x4f118d) ./pyrogenesis() [0x4f118d] (0x53cecf) ./pyrogenesis() [0x53cecf] (0x542f05) ./pyrogenesis() [0x542f05] (0x41374b) ./pyrogenesis() [0x41374b] (0x4154e3) ./pyrogenesis() [0x4154e3] errno = 0 (?) OS error = ? Aborted I've also taken a look at the 0 A.D. PPA (https://launchpad.ne...fg/+archive/0ad), but when I try to package 0 A.D. using the sources provided there, the build fails with the following error: # Run tests LD_LIBRARY_PATH=binaries/system binaries/system/test -libdir binaries/system ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot-sysv.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Running 252 tests........................................................................................................WARNING: Skipping component scripts tests (can't find binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/tests/setup.js) ...............................file.cpp(130): Function call failed: return value was -110301 (Error during IO) Function call failed: return value was -110301 (Error during IO) Location: file.cpp:130 (WaitUntilComplete) Call stack: (0x7ba9ed) binaries/system/test() [0x7ba9ed] (0x778f81) binaries/system/test() [0x778f81] (0x779dd1) binaries/system/test() [0x779dd1] (0x77a18d) binaries/system/test() [0x77a18d] (0x7c1048) binaries/system/test() [0x7c1048] (0x790c37) binaries/system/test() [0x790c37] (0x78f6d1) binaries/system/test() [0x78f6d1] (0x7c13a7) binaries/system/test() [0x7c13a7] (0x794b29) binaries/system/test() [0x794b29] (0x620e46) binaries/system/test() [0x620e46] (0x5559b2) binaries/system/test() [0x5559b2] (0x498560) binaries/system/test() [0x498560] (0x418af4) binaries/system/test() [0x418af4] (0x422333) binaries/system/test() [0x422333] (0x418dfd) binaries/system/test() [0x418dfd] (0x2b63409c0c4d) /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x2b63409c0c4d] errno = 0 (?) OS error = ? Function call failed: return value was -110301 (Error during IO) Location: file.cpp:130 (WaitUntilComplete) Call stack: (0x7ba9ed) binaries/system/test() [0x7ba9ed] (0x778f81) binaries/system/test() [0x778f81] (0x779dd1) binaries/system/test() [0x779dd1] (0x77a18d) binaries/system/test() [0x77a18d] (0x7c1048) binaries/system/test() [0x7c1048] (0x790c37) binaries/system/test() [0x790c37] (0x78f6d1) binaries/system/test() [0x78f6d1] (0x7c13a7) binaries/system/test() [0x7c13a7] (0x794b29) binaries/system/test() [0x794b29] (0x620e46) binaries/system/test() [0x620e46] (0x5559b2) binaries/system/test() [0x5559b2] (0x498560) binaries/system/test() [0x498560] (0x418af4) binaries/system/test() [0x418af4] (0x422333) binaries/system/test() [0x422333] (0x418dfd) binaries/system/test() [0x418dfd] (0x2b63409c0c4d) /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x2b63409c0c4d] errno = 0 (?) OS error = ? (C)ontinue, (S)uppress, (B)reak, Launch (D)ebugger, or (E)xit? Sleeping until debugger attaches. Please wait. Debugger launch failed: No such file or directory Trace/breakpoint trap make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 133 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/0ad-0~r09049~alpha4' make: *** [binary] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 Does anybody know why this is happening, and how I could fix this? Thanks in advance.