Dear fellow Linux based Dark Radiant users

[the_deep]

How do you get DR to work? 1.8.0 works like a charm in Ubuntu Mate 14.04, but sadly not at all in Kubuntu 14.04. I've had to go the KDE route because I want to use KXStudio for Audio/ Music work. Sure, I could just add the KX repos to Ubuntu Mate, but using the Live DVD just sets things up perfectly and I'm ready to go. And I kind of like KDE.

 

Sadly, the same can't be said for Dark Radiant. 1.8.0 shows the splash screen and the load bar, but stops half way through and shuts down. 2.0.2 won't even go that far.

 

I'm lost and I need some guidance. Thanks.

[Baal]

Can you run it from a command line and give us the output please?

[the_deep]

2.0.2 :

 

*** Caught unhandled unknown exception; terminating

 

1.8.0 :

 

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted (core dumped)

Edited September 20, 2015 by the_deep

[Baal]

A quick Google search tells me that this could be a bug in the boost library (in the case of 1.8.0).

 

Try the following command (on the command line again):

export LANG=C; darkradiant

[the_deep]

 

A quick Google search tells me that this could be a bug in the boost library (in the case of 1.8.0).

 

Try the following command (on the command line again):

export LANG=C; darkradiant

The same thing happens.

[Baal]

What about:

export LC_ALL=C; darkradiant

Again with version 1.8.0. Case is important.

[the_deep]

What about:

export LC_ALL=C; darkradiant

Again with version 1.8.0. Case is important.

Fantastic! That worked. Thank you!

[Nightcrawler]

Hey, I'm new to DR and using Ubuntu 14.04. I tried to start working with DarkRadiant 2.0.2. a few weeks ago. But it crashes as soon as i drag a new room. However I can load in maps and scroll around.

 

When I read 2.0.2. was broken, I installed the 1.8.0 version, but the same problem ocurred...

I also started DR with the above command lines - same problem :/

 

As i'm a total newbie to DR, i have no idea what could be the problem.

Any helping ideas would be appreciated

[the_deep]

Unfortunately I can't give much advice since I'm pretty much a newbie myself. Perhaps it would be useful to know what the console output is, when running it from the terminal. Also, did you delete the files in the /.darkradiant folder after installing 1.8.0?

[Nightcrawler]

Unfortunately deleting the /.darkradiant folder and reinstalling didn't fix the problem.

 

When I ran DR in the Terminal i got this message after it crashed:

darkradiant: ../../../../../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu_emit.c:267: validate_reg: Assertion `execsize >= width' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

 

Besides when i exit DR the regular way i get a differnt message:

(darkradiant:3710): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.2/./glib/gmessages.c:704: could not find handler with id '2' for domain "GTK"

[Nightcrawler]

I googled the output and it said there was a bug in the mesa3D graphics driver. So I got the updated version from oibaf (https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers?field.series_filter=trusty)

That seems to fix the problem.

 

[the_deep]

I googled the output and it said there was a bug in the mesa3D graphics driver. So I got the updated version from oibaf (https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers?field.series_filter=trusty)

That seems to fix the problem.

 

Glad you got it fixed! Happy mapping.