[Pkg-freeciv-devel] Bug#315881: freeciv: Freeciv causes computer to hang

[Noel Torres]

Package: freeciv
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

I've been using the same kernel and the same desktop (Gnome) from
several months ago, with uptimes of several weeks long (and the stops
being caused either by me or by the electrical company). But now, I
experience strange system crashes while playing Freeciv, and they only
happen while playing, and not when otherwise using several hundreds of
differents Sarge programs on Gnome.

Every time I've started to play, I heard (after more or less time of
continuous play) a bunch of harddisk noise, and when I tried to Alt-F1
or to run 'top' or to change directory to save the game or any other
similar (kernel-related) task, it does not work and system becomes unusable and, thus, it must be hard-rebooted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9Envite_27.01.05
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to es_ES@euro)

Versions of packages freeciv depends on:
ii  freeciv-client-gtk [freeciv-c 2.0.1-1    Civilization turn based strategy g
ii  freeciv-server                2.0.1-1    Civilization turn based strategy g

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