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[I7-1994] [Mantis 2030] NI segfaults on every invocation #90

Closed curiousdannii-testing closed 2 years ago

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

Reported by : neroden

Description :

After a recent Debian Linux update, NI segfaults on every invocation, making Inform 7 completely unusable.

I can't even fix it myself because NI is still, for incomprehensible reasons, closed-source.

uname -a report:

Linux doctormoo 4.12.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.12.13-1 (2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce :

Just invoke ni, by any means whatsoever.

Additional information :

Could have been a library update – but that shouldn't have affected a static linked binary if it was built properly.

More likely ni is incompatible with recent kernels; this worked under 4.9. I will revert the kernel (requiring a reboot) and see if it fixes the problem or whether it's a library incompatibilty. I don't know how to track down a library incompatbility.

imported from: [Mantis 2030] NI segfaults on every invocation
  • status: Closed
  • resolution: Duplicate
  • resolved: 2022-04-07T05:02:26+10:00
  • imported: 2022/01/10
curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by neroden :
Verified. Works on Linux 4.9, breaks on Linux 4.12.

This needs to be fixed in NI basically immediately.

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by neroden :
Upon further research this is likely to be a duplicate of http://inform7.com/mantis/view.php?id=2025, which has been festering ignored for a month and a half despite only requiring a recompile.

This would be much easier if NI were distributed in source form, even if it wasn't under an open source license (an open source license would be better of course).