Minetest crashing in Fedora

[DMGrier]

Hello Everyone,
I installed Minetest 0.4.8 for Fedora 20 Gnome. When I click to open the application the minetest window opens then crashes right away. I am not seeing any error message. please help figure this out, thanks.

[hoodedice]

There must be a debug.txt located somewhere. I don't know how fedora works though...

[DMGrier]

I found one in the .minetest folder. When I click on it to open it in a text editor it opens but there is nothing written to the file.

[PilzAdam]

Run minetest from a command line.

[DMGrier]

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devon@powerpc ~$ minetest
minetest: Symbol `_ZN3irr5video16IdentityMaterialE' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.1
Warning: The library version of the Irrlicht Engine (1.8.1) does not match the version the application was compiled with (1.8.0). This may cause problems.
Linux 3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 16 01:07:50 UTC 2014 x86_64
Creating X window...
Using renderer: OpenGL 2.1
Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile : Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
GLSL version: 1.2
Loaded texture: /usr/share/minetest/games/minetest_game/menu/header.png
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Then the Window opens for a split second and then crashes.

[GingerHunter797]

I had the same problem back when I was first getting into linux and expiramenting with Fedora. That is why I dont use Fedora today...

[DMGrier]

I had the same problem back when I was first getting into linux and expiramenting with Fedora. That is why I dont use Fedora today...

There have been a few things that kind of suck, but I would say on Fedora 20 under gnome I am having a better user experience then I have had on other distributions. Might be making a permanent switch to Fedora. Actually this is my only bump so far other then skype and that was a easy fix which all distributions have been suffering from.

[GingerHunter797]

I had the same problem back when I was first getting into linux and expiramenting with Fedora. That is why I dont use Fedora today...

There have been a few things that kind of suck, but I would say on Fedora 20 under gnome I am having a better user experience then I have had on other distributions. Might be making a permanent switch to Fedora. Actually this is my only bump so far other then skype and that was a easy fix which all distributions have been suffering from.

I recommend Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or Lubuntu(What Im using now). I have tried all of these distro's for about a month each and I can say I like all of them very much. But Kubuntu definitly takes up the most resources, but still runs pretty fast. Anyway, I hope you get the problem fixed and wish you good experiences with Fedora. :)

[DMGrier]

I had the same problem back when I was first getting into linux and expiramenting with Fedora. That is why I dont use Fedora today...

There have been a few things that kind of suck, but I would say on Fedora 20 under gnome I am having a better user experience then I have had on other distributions. Might be making a permanent switch to Fedora. Actually this is my only bump so far other then skype and that was a easy fix which all distributions have been suffering from.

I recommend Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or Lubuntu(What Im using now). I have tried all of these distro's for about a month each and I can say I like all of them very much. But Kubuntu definitly takes up the most resources, but still runs pretty fast. Anyway, I hope you get the problem fixed and wish you good experiences with Fedora. :)

Have used Ubuntu which the only difference between Ubuntu and the ones you listed are the desktop. I do love Ubuntu but what drives me nuts is how old packages can get and I have PPA's break on me all the time. Fedora keeps everything a little more up to date, not to mention with "Fedora Utils" I can get the system configured in half the time.

Anyone with any ideas?
I am seeing
"Warning: The library version of the Irrlicht Engine (1.8.1) does not match the version the application was compiled with (1.8.0). This may cause problems."

maybe the problem?

[PilzAdam]

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Warning: The library version of the Irrlicht Engine (1.8.1) does not match the version the application was compiled with (1.8.0). This may cause problems.

I remember someone already brought this error up once. Its the fault of the one who maintains the packages in your distro, you should tell him about this.

[DMGrier]

I reported the issue, said screw it and now running on Manjaro Linux. Having the latest version and just works again.

[Blackened]

Just in case somebody else encounters this error, this is what I did to work around this problem on Fedora 19:

1. Install missing dependencies for rebuilding the minetest package:

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$ sudo yum-builddep minetest

2. Download the source RPM for the minetest package:

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$ yumdownloader --source minetest

3. Rebuild the minetest package from the source RPM file:

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$ rpmbuild --rebuild minetest-0.4.9-1.fc19.src.rpm

4. Remove the previously installed minetest and minetest-server packages:

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$ sudo yum remove minetest minetest-server

5. Install the newly built RPM packages:

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$ sudo yum localinstall ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/minetest-*.rpm