Random crash when accessing preferences menu during campaign

Bragador · Post by **Bragador** » February 11th, 2006, 3:34 am

While playing the first mission of the new newbie campaign, after ~10 turns I decided to change the sound since it was too loud. I clicked on "preferences" then the screen turned black and after 5 seconds it crashed.

Couldn't reproduce.

(Using windows XP, Wesnoth 1.1.1)

Post by **Soliton** » February 11th, 2006, 4:01 am

This seems to be a common error with the windows build (probably since version 1.1). You can make a bug report at http://bugs.wesnoth.org/ non-reproducable errors aren't very helpful though. We also don't have many developers using windows so it might take a while since someone is able to fix this.

Bragador · Post by **Bragador** » February 11th, 2006, 4:06 am

I wasn't sure if someone else had already seen that bug.

I'll do some further testing and see if I can find what triggers it.

Troth · Post by **Troth** » February 18th, 2006, 12:23 am

I heard about the "preference-crash" a few times in the 1.1.1 lobby, personally i didn't experience any difficulty there. However since 1.1.1 there are significantly more crashes, particularily at the start of multiplayer scenarios like rozes survival maps or the minidotw. It happens directly after the host pressed the start button. Then either the host crashes or players drop out to pop up as observers later. It's not exactly reproducable i'm afraid. It happens in about 1/3 of the time. I'm on WinME but roze is using linux and told me he's having the same problem. I don't know about normal maps since i don't play them much, so far they seemed to run fine.

Just to let you know.

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » February 18th, 2006, 12:55 pm

Going to prefferences in-game (1.1.x) is like russian roulette, sometimes it works, sometimes wesnoth crash. Stderr.txt don't say much.

OS: Win XP