Linuxulator on RELENG_7 causes games to hang

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 24 03:50:38 PST 2007


On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today someone reported a breakage in the linux emulation (see PR
> ports/118213). As games//HeroesOfMightAndMagic worked fine on RELENG_6,
> some change between RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 must have caused a bug with
> such programs.
> 
> games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic starts as supposed and goes into a wait
> state including a <defunct> zombie process.
> In contrast to other reported issues, this does not seem to be related
> to the sound directly (although it might be caused by it) as the process
> hangs no matter if sound is enabled or disabled.
> 
> games/rt2-demo suffers from the same issue, although it can be started
> without issues if you disable the sound with the -s parameter. 

please try to bisect code changes to identify the exact change that broke it.
I'll investigate that from that point further..

thnx

roman


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