Re: Testing latest TORCS changes in CVS

----- Bernhard Wymann wrote:
> Hi David
> 
> So, to recap, just to make sure: It freezes only under gnome 2, when you 
> do the same thing e.g under KDE it does not happen?

Correct.

> Hypothesis: KDE and Gnome do not use the same sound daemon, the Gnome 
> sound daemon in combination with torce causes a hang somehow.

Probably.

> Can you test this? You could try to disable the sound in TORCS and see 
> if you are still able to make it hang (as it sounds it is "a piece of 
> cake" to reproduce it on your system, is it)? If you take an old version 
> of TORCS (which had the plib option), does it happen with plib and 
> openal, or just with openal?

torcs-1.3.5-test1
'openal' has the problem.
'disabled' and 'plib' work correctly.

torcs-1.3.7
both 'disabled' and 'openal' have the problem.

> Thank you for your support.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> On 18.02.2017 20:23, David Savinkoff wrote:
> > ----- David Savinkoff wrote:
> >> ----- Bernhard Wymann wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for testing:-)
> >>>
> >>>> 1) I can freeze TORCS in "Dirt 2" by t-boning the divider wall
> >>>>    between the raceway and the pits (on the raceway side).
> >>>
> >>> Can you tell me with which car and and how to exactly reproduce it, I
> >>> tried it now for 15 minutes and got no "success"?
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards
> >>>
> >>> Bernhard
> >>
> >> I used car1-trb1 semi-pro and drove the car into the wall where it says "Water"
> >> I am using CentOS 6 and the Gnome 2 desktop.
> >>
> >> Just tested:
> >> I also get this problem with CentOS 5 and torcs-1.3.5-test1 and the Gnome 2
> >> desktop on another computer. I did not get this problem with the KDE desktop.
> >>
> >> Freezing looks like a Gnome problem.
> >> *******
> >> Note that I was able to occasionally drive right through the wall with all
> >> variations of the above mentioned (torcs-1.3.5 -> torcs-latest)
> >> (CentOS 5 and 6) (Gnome 2 and KDE3) (2 different computers)
> >
> > Here are two more scenarios:
> > 1) I crashed into olethros-6/car4-trb1. When olethros-6 hit the pit wall
> >     TORCS froze. This is with Dirt-2 as mentioned above.
> >
> > 2) Select: Quick Race (previous tests also), car6-trb1, E-Road, semi-pro
> >      (t-bone pit wall from track-side using Gnome2 desktop freezes TORCS)
> >
> > Thus any car/driver hitting the pit wall on any track may freeze TORCS
> > when using the Gnome2 desktop. I have never froze TORCS by colliding
> > with anything other than the pit wall.
> >

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