[Bug 299579] New: Xboard crashes upon launch - can't find crafty
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 Summary: Xboard crashes upon launch - can't find crafty Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Beta 1 Platform: 32bit OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: lee_matheson@hotmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Other Xboard (a chess game front end) has been setup to launch crafty, and crafty has been excluded from 10.3. Hence xboard immediately crashes upon launch with error message: oldcpu@mini:~> xboard xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe xboard: Failed to start first chess program crafty xboard on localhost: crafty: No such file or directory xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not on the list oldcpu@mini:~> Recommend either: a. re-include crafty (my preferred approach), or b. modify xboard build NOT to look for crafty, or c. modify xboard to run either gnuchess or phalanx by default. Note, crafty is likely the strongest chess program for Linux. It would be disappointing not to see it included in 10.3 and I think it worth while including crafty in 10.3: Crafty web site ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ Review of Linux Chess engines: http://www.linux.com/articles/60859 My desktop: kde-3.5.7 My handle on IRC / suse forums: oldcpu -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 Stephan Binner <stbinner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |sbrabec@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | Component|Other |X11 Applications -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c2 --- Comment #2 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson@hotmail.com> 2007-08-11 09:15:31 MST --- While I prefer the "craft" chess engine, one can successfully launch "xboard" from the konsole (on a 32-bit openSUSE-10.3 beta1) by calling one of the weaker chess engines that are included with opensuse (when calling "xboard"). ie with either the "phalanx" or "gnuchess" chess engines. For example: xboard -fcp "gnuchess" or xboard -fcp "phalanx" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c3 --- Comment #3 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson@hotmail.com> 2007-08-11 09:20:53 MST --- The "scid" analysis tool (which comes with SuSE-10.3) also has "crafty" listed as one of the default chess engines. However this no impact on nominal "scid" operation. One can very easily add the "gnuchess" and/or the "phalanx" chess engines to "scid" via a simple "scid" menu. Note that the analysis that comes from "gnuchess" and from "scid" will likely not be as accurate as analysis produced by "crafty". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c4 --- Comment #4 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson@hotmail.com> 2007-08-24 15:45:25 MST --- This Bug (with xboard crashing immediately after launch, because it can not find crafty) is still present in beta2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c5 --- Comment #5 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson@hotmail.com> 2007-09-07 13:34:36 MST --- This Bug (with xboard crashing immediately after launch, because it can not find crafty) is still present in 10.3-beta3 (even though phalanx is now a dependency of xboard). The work around is to still use another chess engine when starting xboard ... ie ... xboard -fcp phalanx -size medium The above comment #1 that crafty is likely the strongest chess program for Linux is not current, and hence not correct. I believe the program "fruit" to be a stronger chess program, and it can be downloaded (or repository setup) from here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Ports:/DebianBased:/Auto/openSUSE_... The chess engine "fruit" also uses xboard. For example, with fruit installed: xboard -fcp fruit -size medium In addition the current computer world champion chess program "rybka" (which plays under MS-Windows) will run under wine on Linux. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c6 Michael Jenkinson <mlj@chase.eclipse.co.uk> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mlj@chase.eclipse.co.uk --- Comment #6 from Michael Jenkinson <mlj@chase.eclipse.co.uk> 2007-10-07 13:46:30 MST --- An interim solution with the default distro is to modify the Kmenu xboard call command as follows (assuming you will have GNU chess installed as is present default, not fruit/crafty/phalanx) xboard -fcp gnuchessx -fd /usr/share/gnuchess this will work without problems but you will need to hide the panel to show the full chess board window and a better call is: xboard -fcp gnuchessx -fd /usr/share/gnuchess -size medium. The reason is that xboard tries to call craft by default and all someone in OpenSuse development has to do to remove this annoying bug is alter the present "xboard" command from reading xboard -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c7 Michael Jenkinson <mlj@chase.eclipse.co.uk> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|Beta 1 |Final --- Comment #7 from Michael Jenkinson <mlj@chase.eclipse.co.uk> 2007-10-07 13:50:55 MST --- PS bug is in released 10.3 so I have updated as a final version bug -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 User lee_matheson@hotmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c8 --- Comment #8 from Lee Matheson <lee_matheson@hotmail.com> 2007-12-16 14:12:23 MST --- The bug in xboard is easy to fix, with the interim solution noted by myself (post#5) and also Michael Jenkinson (post#6). Reference the chess program crafty, if one still wishes to use the strong crafty chess program, it is easy to compile under openSUSE. 1) Download the source package Go to <ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/>, click on "source" (in addition to crafty source, there are, e.g., books and tablebases to download as well) and then scroll down to select the latest "crafty-21.6.tar.gz" version. Place it at a suitable location (in my case /home/oldcpu/chess/crafty/). 2) Untar and compile Crafty In a terminal execute: cd /home/oldcpu/chess/crafty tar -xzvf crafty-21.6.tar.gz cd crafty-21.6 make linux For amd 64-bit users, instead of "make linux" try "make linux-amd64". Then execute crafty with something like: xboard -fcp ./crafty -size medium Another strong chess program, that works well with xboard, is "spike". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 User knikanth@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c9 Nikanth K <knikanth@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |knikanth@novell.com --- Comment #9 from Nikanth K <knikanth@novell.com> 2008-07-21 02:24:10 MDT --- This problem is still present on openSuse11.0 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579 User sbrabec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299579#c10 Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #10 from Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@novell.com> 2008-09-10 08:01:17 MDT --- Fixed in Factory: - xboard now defaults to gnuchess - xboard package now requires the default backend unconditionally, as there is no chance to change it, if the default is missing. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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