Segfault at launch on Fedora Linux 34

ioquake3 support
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I just did a fresh install on Fedora 33 and immediately upon launching ‘quake3’ from a terminal, I get a segfault. I ran the quake3 binary through gdb and got the output below. It looks like it’s having file sytem troubles with the ‘baseq3’ directory. The /home/user/.q3a folder is not being created at all, so the blow up is happening somewhere prior to that:

ioq3 1.36 linux-x86_64 Aug  1 2020

Have SSE support
----- FS_Startup -----

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
FS_AddGameDirectory (path=0x7ffff7724b98 “/usr/share/quake3”, dir=dir@entry=0x7ffff7724aa0 “baseq3”) at code/qcommon/files.c:2868
2868 Sys_FreeFileList( pakfiles );
Missing separate debuginfos, use: dnf debuginfo-install SDL-1.2.15-45.fc33.x86_64 glibc-2.32-10.fc33.x86_64 libX11-1.7.2-3.fc33.x86_64 libXau-1.0.9-4.fc33.x86_64 libXext-1.3.4-4.fc33.x86_64 libgcc-10.3.1-1.fc33.x86_64 libglvnd-1.3.3-1.fc33.x86_64 libglvnd-glx-1.3.3-1.fc33.x86_64 libjpeg-turbo-2.0.5-5.fc33.x86_64 libogg-1.3.4-3.fc33.x86_64 libvorbis-1.3.7-2.fc33.x86_64 libxcb-1.13.1-5.fc33.x86_64 speex-1.2.0-6.fc33.x86_64 speexdsp-1.2.0-2.fc33.x86_64 zlib-1.2.11-23.fc33.x86_64

Any input appreciated on this issue, thanks.

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Is this ioquake3 from a packaged version of ioquake3 that fedora provides?

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It appears to use SDL 1.2 while ioquake3 moved to SDL 2.0 around 2013. The Fedora 34 package for ioquake3 list SDL 1.2 and the ioquake3 version “1.36-38.svn2102” seems to imply it’s from 2011.

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Yes, this is from Fedora 33’s native package repository.

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I see these packages installed which reference SDL:
SDL.x86_64 1.2.15-45.fc33 @fedora
SDL2.x86_64 2.0.14-1.fc33 @updates
SDL_Pango.x86_64 0.1.2-32.fc33 @fedora
SDL_gfx.x86_64 2.0.26-3.fc33 @fedora
SDL_image.x86_64 1.2.12-25.fc33 @fedora
SDL_mixer.x86_64 1.2.12-21.fc33 @fedora
SDL_ttf.x86_64 2.0.11-19.fc33 @fedora

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SDL 1.2 was just a sign; the point being this is a really old version of ioquake3. You could report the issue to Fedora and/or use the current version of ioquake3.

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Fair enough, thanks for the input. :slight_smile: