Crashing on combat in BG1

[SyntaxError]

you need a debug build with symbols. 0xb7fd2ff4 doesnt tell us anything useful

[NickDelios]

you need a debug build with symbols. 0xb7fd2ff4 doesnt tell us anything useful

Hrm. I re-did the build (cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..) per the directions located here and the output of gdb is still the same. At least, I'm not getting any more useful information displayed pre-crash. I guess I must have borked up the build, because gdb says:

 

Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/gemrb...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

 

Unless there is another arg to cmake that I'm leaving out.

[Avenger]

Make sure your new build with debug overwrites the old. Like, delete all old so files.

Watch your make log actually compiles GemRB from scratch.

[lynx]

if you're using the same build dir, make sure to delete CMakeCache.txt and just to be safe CMakeFiles/. Anyway, the used build type is displayed at the end of cmake configuration.

 

Also, a while ago I made the release build with symbols the default, so this shouldn't be happening anymore.

[NickDelios]

Ah fark - I'm a berk 'bout all this. So I did another build (after clearing out the gemrb-git/CMakeFiles/ and gemrb-git/CMakeCache.txt files) - which yielded the 'build = debug' message during the CMake. I then made sure to call up that build and a CFG that I setup for BG1 via GDB with:

gdb --args gemrb/gemrb -c ~/BG/gemrb-bg.cfg

 

Which looked promising - because gdb output the following:

Reading symbols from /home/oswald/Downloads/gemrb-githead/gemrb/build/gemrb/gemrb...done.

 

However, when gemrb crashes (and it's seemingly only at those damn rats - I decided to fight some of the townsfolk of Candlekeep without incident... other than my death), I fail to get a more information yield than:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0xb7fceff4 in ?? ()

from /home/oswald/Downloads/gemrb-githead/gemrb/build/gemrb/core/libgemrb_core.so

 

Nothing so far has been able to elaborate on where the crash is coming from - even running the mentioned 'where' it the gdb prompt after the crash yields the same thing.

 

Thanks, all. I really do appreciate all the support you have all been providing. :thumbs up:

-Erik

[NickDelios]

Ba'lump?

 

I figured to give this a more thorough 'go and I'm still not sure what it causing the issue. Attached to this post are the following files:

 

- The piped output from the cmake, make and make install commands (which I believe properly show a Debug version being built and installed).

- The piped output from gdb - running up to the freeze and an unsuccessful backtrace. I can't get gdb to show me the method where the issue is occurring :/

 

Anyhow, if you all think that this is related only to the fight with the 'tutorial rats', I could just bypass them (I think - it's been ages so I'm not sure if their death is required to progress farther) and see how it goes.

cmake.txt

gdb.txt

make.txt

install.txt

[Avenger]

The crash seem to happen when the rat is moving through an area transition.

[NickDelios]

The crash seem to happen when the rat is moving through an area transition.

That particular crash occurred when a rat came with me through the door from the storeroom and I attacked it. Every other occurrence ace has been when I attack a rat within the storeroom. It's quote odd - the crash seems to be related to me initiating an attack against any of the rats.

 

I've been able to randomly fight villagers just fine - but the rats, Bhall no. :/

[Avenger]

The rats got some damage resistance, maybe that is the cause then.