Crash on start due to Soundmanager

[tuk0z]

Hi all,

In short:

Game segfaulted after I updated openal to 1.24.0 yesterday. It works just fine after downgrading openal to 1.23.1. No chicken were harmed.

- Software: Arch linux ; 0ad a26-17 ; 0ad-data a26-2
- Hardware: Intel Core i3 ; Nvidia GT 1030 (fanless)

Some more details:

With openal-1.24.0:

$ 0ad 
TIMER| InitVfs: 2.03109 ms
FILES| Main log written to '$HOME/.config/0ad/logs/mainlog.html'
FILES| Interesting log written to '$HOME/.config/0ad/logs/interestinglog.html'
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 5.32788 ms
[E] pw.loop [loop.c:69 pw_loop_new()] 0x60457b6edb60: can't make support.system handle: No such file or directory
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to create PipeWire event thread loop (errno: 2)
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft
Assertion failed: "0 && (L"FYI: WARN_IF_FALSE reports that a function failed. Feel free to ignore or suppress this warning.")"
Location: SoundManager.cpp:841 (RunHardwareDetection)

Call stack:

(0x6045492c7d84) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x84ed84) [0x6045492c7d84]
(0x6045492740a0) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x7fb0a0) [0x6045492740a0]
(0x604549275a69) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x7fca69) [0x604549275a69]
(0x604549276335) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x7fd335) [0x604549276335]
(0x604548f16f23) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x49df23) [0x604548f16f23]
(0x604548f1a86e) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x4a186e) [0x604548f1a86e]
(0x604548f1a9a1) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x4a19a1) [0x604548f1a9a1]
(0x604548e2ad0c) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x3b1d0c) [0x604548e2ad0c]
(0x604548b2a375) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0xb1375) [0x604548b2a375]
(0x604548b193ab) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0xa03ab) [0x604548b193ab]
(0x736377745e08) /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x25e08) [0x736377745e08]
(0x736377745ecc) /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x8c) [0x736377745ecc]
(0x604548b231c5) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0xaa1c5) [0x604548b231c5]

errno = 0 (No error reported here)
OS error = ?


Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort

/usr/bin/0ad: line 9: 49358 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$pyrogenesis" "$@"

With openal-1.23.1 :

$ 0ad
TIMER| InitVfs: 239.716 us
FILES| Main log written to '$HOME/.config/0ad/logs/mainlog.html'
FILES| Interesting log written to '$HOME/.config/0ad/logs/interestinglog.html'
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 2.68025 ms
[E] pw.loop [loop.c:69 pw_loop_new()] 0x60eae9630130: can't make support.system handle: No such file or directory
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to create PipeWire event thread loop (errno: 2)
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft
FILES| UserReport written to '$HOME/.config/0ad/logs/userreport_hwdetect.txt'
TIMER| RunHardwareDetection: 6.44828 ms
FILES| Hardware details written to '$HOME/.config/0ad/logs/system_info.txt'
TIMER| write_sys_info: 17.4534 ms
TIMER| InitRenderer: 20.6847 ms
TIMER| ps_console: 4.63143 ms
TIMER| ps_lang_hotkeys: 3.00069 ms
TIMER| common/modern/setup.xml: 112.83 us
TIMER| common/modern/styles.xml: 100.456 us
TIMER| common/modern/sprites.xml: 776.77 us
TIMER| common/global.xml: 298.022 us
TIMER| common/setup.xml: 187.392 us
TIMER| common/sprites.xml: 464.298 us
TIMER| common/styles.xml: 66.51 us
TIMER| pregame/backgrounds/: 132.234 us
TIMER| pregame/sprites.xml: 96.276 us
TIMER| pregame/styles.xml: 29.007 us
TIMER| pregame/mainmenu.xml: 43.6955 ms
TIMER| common/modern/setup.xml: 93.616 us
TIMER| common/modern/styles.xml: 106.386 us
TIMER| common/modern/sprites.xml: 962.806 us
TIMER| msgbox/msgbox.xml: 17.0366 ms
TIMER| shutdown Renderer: 628.728 us
TIMER| shutdown SDL: 115.719 ms
TIMER| shutdown UserReporter: 1.94474 ms
TIMER| shutdown ConfigDB: 97.907 us
TIMER| resource modules: 24.6124 ms
TIMER TOTALS (7 clients)
-----------------------------------------------------
  tc_pool_alloc: 0 c (0x)
  tc_png_decode: 7546.19 kc (2x)
  tc_dds_transform: 30.636 kc (11x)
  tc_transform: 841.184 kc (5x)
  tc_plain_transform: 790.82 kc (5x)
  tc_ShaderValidation: 1142.95 kc (1x)
  xml_validation: 707.244 kc (3x)
-----------------------------------------------------
TIMER| shutdown misc: 8.26539 ms

Also posted on Arch forum.

Edited Tuesday at 12:20 by tuk0z
Added Arch bbs link

[vladislavbelov]

Hi!

According to:

[E] pw.loop [loop.c:69 pw_loop_new()] 0x60457b6edb60: can't make support.system handle: No such file or directory
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to create PipeWire event thread loop (errno: 2)

It seems like an OpenAL or the system problem. We can make a workaround to disable sounds for that case. Did you try any other game/software using OpenAL with the new version?

[tuk0z]

I didn't try another yet but I could give Endless-Sky a go, as it depends on it too.

Note that sound in 0 AD works perfectly fine to me with openal-1.23.1

[AInur]

0ad crashes whenever I try to start it. This became persistent and appeared suddenly.

TIMER| InitVfs: 186.839 us
FILES| Main log written to '/home/esme/.config/0ad/logs/mainlog.html'
FILES| Interesting log written to '/home/esme/.config/0ad/logs/interestinglog.html'
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 2.24604 ms
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft
Assertion failed: "0 && (L"FYI: WARN_IF_FALSE reports that a function failed. Feel free to ignore or suppress this warning.")"
Location: SoundManager.cpp:841 (RunHardwareDetection)

Call stack:

(0x59bae6a4bd84) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x84ed84) [0x59bae6a4bd84]
(0x59bae69f80a0) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x7fb0a0) [0x59bae69f80a0]
(0x59bae69f9a69) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x7fca69) [0x59bae69f9a69]
(0x59bae69fa335) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x7fd335) [0x59bae69fa335]
(0x59bae669af23) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x49df23) [0x59bae669af23]
(0x59bae669e86e) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x4a186e) [0x59bae669e86e]
(0x59bae669e9a1) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x4a19a1) [0x59bae669e9a1]
(0x59bae65aed0c) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0x3b1d0c) [0x59bae65aed0c]
(0x59bae62ae375) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0xb1375) [0x59bae62ae375]
(0x59bae629d3ab) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0xa03ab) [0x59bae629d3ab]
(0x714b6a1621ce) /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x261ce) [0x714b6a1621ce]
(0x714b6a16228a) /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x8a) [0x714b6a16228a]
(0x59bae62a71c5) /usr/bin/pyrogenesis(+0xaa1c5) [0x59bae62a71c5]

errno = 0 (No error reported here)
OS error = ?

This log suggests Soundmanager.cpp is causing an issue. The sound system on my device is working.

interestinglog.html is empty

mainglog.html only loaded some autociv config strings, nothing of interest.

 

I could play the game by using an appimage build, but ideally we can fix the main installation.

 

[hyperion]

Quick check:

alcGetString(nullptr, ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER) returns nullptr or at least a char* starting with "\0" in 1.24.0

It's only used for printing the device name into a logfile. Making the follow up code expecting non NULL segfault. Skipping that part the sound works just fine, as it's only used for printing the device name into a logfile.

[AInur]

13 minutes ago, hyperion said:

Quick check:

alcGetString(nullptr, ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER) returns nullptr or at least a char* starting with "\0" in 1.24.0

It's only used for printing the device name into a logfile. Making the follow up code expecting non NULL segfault. Skipping that part the sound works just fine, as it's only used for printing the device name into a logfile.

What exactly should I do to fix it?

[hyperion]

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7234

[vladislavbelov]

3 hours ago, hyperion said:

alcGetString(nullptr, ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER) returns nullptr or at least a char* starting with "\0" in 1.24.0

It's only used for printing the device name into a logfile. Making the follow up code expecting non NULL segfault. Skipping that part the sound works just fine, as it's only used for printing the device name into a logfile.

The great find!

[Dunedan]

Same problem happens for 0 A.D. as provided by Debian/unstable since the most recent OpenAL update. cc @vv221

[vv221]

3 minutes ago, Dunedan said:

Same problem happens for 0 A.D. as provided by Debian/unstable

I can confirm that on a system that uses ALSA, without PipeWire nor PulseAudio.