Bug in Freeciv 2.5.0b2

[thallyrion]

Hi

this is my first post but i was eager to try the new Freeciv beta but i keep getting this serious error. None of the previous freeciv versions had it so i decided to post here as it makes the game unplayable.
I can trigger this bug easily with these steps:

1. Start new Game
2. Open more game options
3. resize that options window instantly triggers this error.

Also occurs when i move a windows e.g. City window ingame.

My system is Windows 7 64bit.
Hope this helps a bit. I attached a screenshot of the error.
I hope this can be fixed as i love this game and play it over several years now. Thx for all your hard work.

Greeting Thallyrion

[dunnoob]

Odd, I can't reproduce this for AUTO (de) or (en) with the server options or local client settings; resize, move around, no problem on my Windows 7 64bit box.

Update: Your map area 320 (320,000 tiles) and your specials 1000 (permille, i.e., on all tiles) are "unusual", but in a quick test I still failed to crash the client.

[thallyrion]

Yeah this error is odd i know. I never got it with any other freeciv version or other program. First time but in my case reproducable. So maybe somebody has an idea what might be the problem?

[cazfi]

Update: Your map area 320 (320,000 tiles)

How much memory do you have? Map of that size take plenty of it, especially if you also have a lot of players.

[thallyrion]

16GB Ram should be enough i hope. I have experimented with mapsize and players as at first i wanted to do a maximum possible map but that failed as freeciv crashed at allocating memory. So i made this smaller map with only 20 factions which works quite good. I don't think that this is related to the crash at all.

[louis94]

Hello,

Does it happen with the modpack installer ? If so, I'd say the Gtk+ installation is corrupted. You would need to download and install Freeciv again.

Louis

[thallyrion]

I used the installer from the freeciv site.

I uninstalled freeciv and reinstalled it and the problem is still present.

[louis94]

Could reproduce the bug under Windows 7 64 bits, Avast Free antivirus.
What I found 'till now :

• The problem is common to all Gtk dialogs, including the file selection dialog
• Disabling the custom theme by renaming gtkrc-2.0 solves the problem
• Commenting out line 13 of gtkrc (menubar related) solves the problem
• Commenting out line 15 of menubar.rc solves the problem
• Commenting out line 17 of menubar.rc solves the problem
• Commenting other lines doesn't help

Looks like the bug is theme-related, either in Gtk or in the theme itself.

Louis

[cazfi]

The same problem has been reported to the bugtracker as bug #23022.