#5579 closed defect (invalid)
KYRA: Crash on startup on OS X due to invalid PAK file
| Reported by: | SF/tricky75 | Owned by: | lordhoto |
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| Priority: | high | Component: | Engine: Kyra |
| Version: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Game: | Kyrandia 1 |
Description
ScummVM does recognize Kyrandia on my drive as a valid game, but whenever I try to run it ScummVM just crashes out without any notification why
Ticket imported from: #3166235. Ticket imported from: bugs/5579.
Change History (14)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → pending |
| Summary: | Kyrandia won't run (MacOS X) → KYRA: Crash on startup on OS X. |
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
You might also want to check your terminal output for any error messages, check here on how to do it: http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/faq/#5_6
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Status: | pending → new |
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comment:5 by , 14 years ago
Ok, here are the answers you asked for:
* KYRANDIA version = 1.3 * ScummVM version = 1.2.1 (for MacOS X) * Game Language = English * Save Game = N/A * On recently = I have only just started with ScumVM, so this is the first version I ever installed.
* Reproduction: It's just like this, I point ScummVM to the directory where Kyrandia is installed on my system. SVM recognizes it as Kyrandia. Then I select start game and then ScummVM just ends itself without any message or anything. The ScummVM applications just terminates itself.
When it comes to error messages by using your terminal trick, I get the next error: Couldn't load PAK file 'SAV_1.PAK'!
Well, that file does indeed not exist in my installation as the .PAK files the version I have installed are WSA1.PAK, WSA2.PAK, WSA3.PAK, WSA4.PAK, WSA5.PAK and WSA6.PAK. I don't know if renaming those files would do the trick...
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
The problem isn't really that the file does not exist, but probably that you have a "SAV_1.PAK" file which isn't really a Kyra PAK file in some dir ScummVM searches, the extra path or theme path or your CWD comes to mind here. Currently ScummVM picks up all .PAK and .APK files and if one can not be loaded, because it contains invalid data / does not match the file format ScummVM will error out.
A temporary solution would be to look for that file and move it away.
comment:7 by , 14 years ago
Hey, I found the file and indeed, I gave it a name I was sure of ScummVM wouldn't see it as part of the game and now it runs the game.
comment:8 by , 14 years ago
It would still be very much preferable if ScummVM did proper error handling here, and showed an error dialog, instead of silently quitting (forcing the user to look at console output / a log file).
comment:10 by , 14 years ago
This bug is nice to get fixed before the release. Raising priority for keeping the track.
comment:11 by , 14 years ago
| Priority: | normal → high |
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comment:12 by , 14 years ago
| Summary: | KYRA: Crash on startup on OS X. → KYRA: Crash on startup on OS X due to invalid PAK file |
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comment:13 by , 13 years ago
I added a simple possibility to output that error to the user via the debugger window in cfac223cee7cc8136fdf43dea1465a1b060a803b. That should take care of this for now.
comment:14 by , 13 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: Kyra |
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| Game: | → Kyrandia 1 |
| Resolution: | → invalid |
| Status: | new → closed |
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