PyChess dumps core on Ubuntu 8.10 (stable)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load a game or press "start game" on start screen
2. Client freezes before even seeing the board
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see a chess board. What I see instead is nothing.

Does it happen every time?
Yes.

What version of the product are you using?
"Philidor 0.82". I am running on Archlinux with an english-localized GNOME.

Did you use an installed version of PyChess or did you run in from a
tarball/svn?
Tried downloading first from website, and then from distro's repository
with same result

Please provide any additional information below.
This is the first time I tried pychess so it might be some package I am
missing etc. 

Please attach the latest pychess logfile.
13:08:48 Default Debug: Started

Original issue reported on code.google.com by regns...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2008 at 11:11

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Just want you to know that somehow miraculously, do not know if by new pychess
release in karmic or by python or some other package add/remove, but the main 
thing
is that pychess now works fine from release as well as latest svn version.

Starts fine, engine discovery ok, connecting to fics stable. Of course, it still
crashes once and then but now I can help you finding bugs, translating, play 
chess. :-)

Really happy here, thanks for PyChess.

Original comment by pe3...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2009 at 11:25

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This bugs seems to be fixed for me now too under Fedora 11.

Original comment by dean.brettle on 16 Oct 2009 at 6:45

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Is this bug finally fixed now?  Can we close the issue? (I have Ubuntu 8.10 and
PyChess runs fine for me!)

-John

Original comment by zollo.j...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:00

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I think I found out how to reproduce this:

Enable "Assistive Technologies" in the preferences. On my Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic 
system it's in System > 
Preferences > Assistive Technologies. I've attached a screenshot of the dialog 
too.

Original comment by mattgatto on 13 Feb 2010 at 8:56

Attachments:

• [Screenshot-Assistive Technologies Preferences.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/pychess/issue-337/comment-54/Screenshot-Assistive Technologies Preferences.png)

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Sometimes its locks up in the initial "Discovering Engines" dialog. Sometimes 
it doesn't even paint a 
window before it locks up (after which it locks up the whole GNOME session. And 
sometimes I get as far 
as clicking the "Start Game" button in the main window before it locks up.

Original comment by mattgatto on 13 Feb 2010 at 8:59

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Issue 556 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by gbtami on 28 Apr 2010 at 1:51

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I had PyChess running great, but after enabling "Assistive Technologies" it 
locks up on starting new games. It seams to be the same problem as Matt's.

Probably though, that should be put in another bug, as there is no "Dumping 
core".

Issue 556 also seams different from this. It seams more like a drawing issue.

Original comment by lobais on 24 Jun 2010 at 12:48

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Original comment by gbtami on 21 Mar 2013 at 8:11

• Changed state: Fix-Known

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Issue 660 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by gbtami on 21 Apr 2013 at 7:19

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I guess this issue was an aggregation of different problems for different 
people. But the hang hasn't been reproduceable for me for awhile now, and the 
workaround for it described in comment 54, disabling Assistive Technologies, 
wouldn't work anyway anymore, because there is no more assistive technologies 
preferences, AFAIK.

Original comment by mattgatto on 2 Aug 2013 at 4:22

• Changed state: Not-Reproducible