(Linux) Fatal Python Error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation

[Dim Sum]

Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
Aborted

...is what I get on Linux Mint 7 Gloria while running Orie Ochi Onoe.

Sorry, I'm a newb at Linux and don't really know what other information to give.

I basically downloaded the tar of the game and unzipped (or I guess it's called untar) the game into a directory.

Couldn't get it to start so I read this wiki: http://renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Linux_Launcher and followed the terminal guide on how to launch the game.

Game launched in full screen but sliced off in half between both of my monitors (the game is in full screen and at the edge of both monitors) - so I tried switching to windows view but I get this error in the terminal and the game crashes.

Edit:

What is the standard requirement for getting a Ren'Py game to work on a Virtualized Windows?

Especially the higher end types of Novels. (Sorry, I haven't been looking for new Ren'py games.)

[dott.Piergiorgio]

Uhm... In my system (Ubuntu 9.10) o3 still runs fine, both fullscreen and windowed. What video card you use ? video cards tend to have a really bad relationship with Linux....

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

[Dim Sum]

NVidia Geforce 8400

Anyways, I settled for playing o3 on a Virtualized Xp

[maximinus]

I get exactly the same error when trying to run ren'py itself.

But I think Pygame itself is fine, because I code python regularly and my pygame code works fine. I use Ubuntu 9.10 and had a good look through the Ubuntu forums but couldn't find any answers their. Anybody else use Ubuntu and ren'py works fine?

[killdream]

Ren'Py works just fine on my Ubuntu VM, both windowed and fullscreen.

[dott.Piergiorgio]

I guess I have found how to replicate the bug (or at least the error message), and the culprit is...

... the Ubuntu package version of Ren'Py !!

I haven't noticed the issue because I actually use directly the latest ren'py stable installed in a local ~/opt dir tree.

Remain mysterious the causes of "Dim Sum" o3 crashs, because the ren'py packaged games always run more than fine on this Linux box.....

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

[maximinus]

Whatever the problem was (and I didn't look to hard) it was solved by just grabbing the latest version from the ren'py website.

The included JEdit doesn't work on a standard Ubuntu 9.10 install. You can either download a JRE via synaptic, or just grab the version of SCITE from http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Editors. Extract the file into the renpy-6.9.3 directory, and copy the file ./renpy-6.9.3/scite/SciTe.editor.py to ./renpy-6.9.3/launchers/

Finally, start a console and cd to the repy-6.9.3 directory. Run ./renpy.sh. Click 'options', then JEdit. Choose SciTe, and then click return. This will take you back to main screen, where you can run the demo from.

The only extra thing I recommend is that when scite has started, you choose Options -> use mono-spaced font to make reading and editing code a bit easier.

All you need to do now is create the art, music, story and code! Have fun

[Dim Sum]

Thanks.

I had since deleted the Linux version of o3 but the direct Ren'Py download seems to work better on Linux than the Ubuntu package.

(For ex. I thought it was just a quirk that Ren'Py won't open the game directory but now it does.)

What's wrong with JEdit on Linux?

Maybe it's because I have JRE already installed but it seems fine.

[pkt]

With Jedit on Linux it's just the Java JRE that needs installed.