Ryzom

Did you update the data using the update script ?

Yes, Ryzom is automatically updated on each start. My launcher :

#!/bin/bash
RYZOMPATH=$(dirname $0)
cd $RYZOMPATH
./ryzom_update.sh
nohup ./ryzom_client &>/dev/null &
exit 0

Please what client are you using ?

The static official one, the one in the Ubuntu Software Center, from one of my PPA or did you compile it yourself ?

The first one downloaded from the offcial website.
I tried the one on the PPA : doesn't works
In the USC : not in Precise, and I wonder where it is because I didn't found Ryzom for any Ubuntu release on packages.ubuntu.com

thannatos wrote:

The first one downloaded from the offcial website.
I tried the one on the PPA : doesn't works
In the USC : not in Precise, and I wonder where it is because I didn't found Ryzom for any Ubuntu release on packages.ubuntu.com

You're using a non-standard path /usr/games/ryzom/, are you sure you have the permission to write in this directory ?

Actually, people are uncompressing it in their home folder.

Ubuntu versions (PPA or USC) are downloading data in ~/.ryzom/data

There is not yet a Precise version in USC but it's ready on private Canonical PPA, you just have to add : ppa:ryzom-isv/ppa and you'll get the Precise version of Ubuntu client.

If it doesn't help, it could come from nouveau which is not yet very stable for games (I had a lot of visual problems) so you could try to switch to proprietary nvidia driver.

You're using a non-standard path /usr/games/ryzom/, are you sure you have the permission to write in this directory ?

If I didn't have the permission, the game would crash on start, not after half an hour :)
I did sudo mv Desktop/ryzom /usr/games/ryzom && sudo chown ubuntu /var/games/ryzom if I remember well. But Ryzom used to crash twice a week when it was on my Desktop

There is not yet a Precise version in USC but it's ready on private Canonical PPA, you just have to add : ppa:ryzom-isv/ppa and you'll get the Precise version of Ubuntu client.

Missing files, the game freeze after the character selection.

If it doesn't help, it could come from nouveau which is not yet very stable for games (I had a lot of visual problems) so you could try to switch to proprietary nvidia driver.

Never ! If I choose Ryzom, it's because it is OpenSource. I won't use a proprietary software ! ^^

I see, if you want to help us, I don't see another way than using a Ryzom client with debug symbols and launching Ryzom with GDB. You could use the version from my PPA https://launchpad.net/~kervala/+archive/ppa which provides -dbg packages for all binary packages. You have to install ryzom-client-dbg and all other -dbg packages it needs, Next, you have to launch : gdb ryzom_client to debug it

When it'll crash you'll have the full backtrace.

Thanks :)

Hum, strange it didn't use /usr/lib/debug/usr/games/ryzom_client :( Are you sure you installed ryzom-client-dbg package ?

kervala wrote:

Hum, strange it didn't use /usr/lib/debug/usr/games/ryzom_client :( Are you sure you installed ryzom-client-dbg package ?

Yes, from the PPA ppa:kervala/ppa, I have these 11 packages installed :
libnel0
libnel0-dbg
libryzom-cliensheets0
libryzom-cliensheets0-dbg
libryzom-gameshare0
libryzom-gameshare0-dbg
ryzom-client
ryzom-client-config
ryzom-client-dbg
ryzom-client-tools
ryzom-client-tools-dgb

It uses this :

ubuntu@precise:~$ gdb ryzom_client
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.02-0ubuntu2) 7.4-2012.02
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/games/ryzom_client...*Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/games/ryzom_client...done.*

It seems that there is no bug, gdb returns nothing, X doesn't crash anymore...
In fact I change something, before I used Ryzom with Compiz. I disabled one plugin to avoid lags, but finally, in order to improve quality, I switched to Metacity while playing Ryzom to use the full graphics effets and quality of the game, and there is no problem, except a little lag when exiting from Yrkanis.
Sorry for the invalid bug.