MacOS X Bug: crash selling cargo

[mr s]

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I've been checking out the game for the first time for the last few days. How I have yearned for a game like this for my humble OS X box. A million thank yous to all involved.
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I've had one re-occuring problem though: the game crashes whenever I try to completely sell certain cargos. I have, for instance, one sulphur cargo that I cannot sell without crashing...my workaround for now is: don't sell it. There doesn't seem to be any dependance on where I attempt to sell.

There must be a better way I can document this bug, if there are any error logs or such things that I can post just let me know.

[hellcatv]

can you post your savegame please

that's in your ~/.vegastrike folder

e-mail it to danielhorn
then after the at sign (this is against spammers) mindspring dotten com.

just in the file attach menu
type

~/.vegastrike
(it's in your home directory and it's a hidden folder, called dot then vegastrike .vegastrike (the dot makes it hidden)

once I have this savegame I can help you solve your problem, thanks

and you can just edit the .vegastrike/serialized_xml/yoursavegame/yourunit and take out that cargo in a text ed

[energyman]

similar problem with linux:

after a restart of the game I had a lot of stuff in my inventory, that I never bought. Some were be able to be sold, but some of them crash vegastrike.
It returns to X, but still runs in memory and sucks a lot of cpu power.

[hellcatv]

yuck... can you send me your save file with the cargo that you cannot sell?
I haven't been able to reproduce this problem myself

just send me your ~/.vegastrike/save and ~/.vegastrike/serialized_xml folders
thanks--I can't fix this problem until you give me more detailed info

ALSO BTW which ship did you use?

[Jukkis]

Okay, I've reproduced this bug on the Windows version after just half an hour of gameplay. I have a bunch of cargo in hold, and no matter where or in what order I sell them, selling the very last item always crashes the game.

I've zipped up the progfiles/vegastrike/vegastrike-0391/.vegastrike/save and .../serialized_xml directories for you, get them here: http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~jmannin2/ ... ll_bug.zip

The affected savegame is the one called 'Jukkis' ... I think. I haven't quite got a grasp on the launcher yet.

[Loki9]

I also have had the frustrating problem of not being able to sell my last item in a list. it is very frustrating because after awhile of selling random items they pile up... Just for future reference when 4.0 comes out

[hellcatv]

I think we nailed this--never had it a problem on my machine
but I used some Vm to track down the unintialized memory
and sure enough I traced it down to anew feature in 0.3.9

that's why this ain't 0.4.0 guys

anyone with a good compiler can download CVS for a fix

[Dark Shadow]

Sometimes the game crashs when I sell my cargo.

[hellcatv]

yes we've fixed this for the next release
patience...we need to fix other stuff for the next release before releasing it

[borgbilly]

You've heard it before. Last item in cargo group sold crashes the program. Mac OS X 1.2.6 Powerbook G4 867 12".

I can't wait till it all works. It'll be just like the old days of all night Elite sessions on my old commodore 64..

Thanks for a much needed app for the Mac.

[hellcatv]

cool
you know with the developer tools and the proper knowhow you can build the latest on your mac without waiting for the release

you'd probably need to scour the wiki and the FAQ's a lot to get the Cvs checkout info, etc but the only things you need are the mac os X devel tools and fink.sourceforge.net