Mark Daniels-Wr. 🟢

#0ad

0ad currently crashes on startup on fedora after recent updates???

@play0ad

Mar 11 at 5:58pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Andrew ConnaMar 12
@MarkDW 0 A.D. Flatpak? Try deleting all game settings data, "rm -rf ~/.var/app/com.play0ad.zeroad".
Show threadMark Daniels-Wr. 🟢Mar 12
@williamconna I uninstalled totally then reinstalled with 0.28. It now starts but crashes pretty soon in a match?? Was stable as a rock before
Show threadWilliam Andrew ConnaMar 13
@MarkDW Yes I experienced it too, although the bug is not as bad as yours. Maybe we should wait for #0AD version 28.1 or 29, always check "flatpak update" in terminal.
Show thread0 A.D. ✅Mar 13
@williamconna @MarkDW Is it flatpak or your distro package ?
Show threadMark Daniels-Wr. 🟢Mar 13
@play0ad @williamconna I‘ll check later and get back to you. I reinstalled the default version in Fedora 43.
Show thread0 A.D. ✅Mar 13
@MarkDW @williamconna I'm asking because of https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8757
Basically your distro maintainer @fedora likely linked system spidermonkey (which is good) but didn't patch that specific issue.
[0.28.0 release] Segfault with system spidermonkey 128

### Description Using an unpatched spidermonkey results in segfault. There is a bug in spidermonkey 128 wrt root tracers[1]. This results in spidermonkey garbage collecting what it's explicitly told not to. Accessing those objects later results in a segfault. The issue is fixed in spidermo…

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Show threadWilliam Andrew ConnaMar 13
@MarkDW @play0ad I recommend you to install #0AD via #Flatpak, because the maintenancer is official from #0AD 👍🏼
Show thread0 A.D. ✅Mar 13
@williamconna @MarkDW While this is true native packages usually have better performance and compatibility (bugs like this aside)
Show threadMark Daniels-Wr. 🟢Mar 14
@play0ad @williamconna thanks for all the help. I have reinstalled from flathub.org and now version 0.28 works wonderfully just like before :) thanks again