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lunchbox

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Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 28

[Solved] Python: pygame won't work

Just upgraded to 64-bit and everything is running extremely smoothly.  My only problem is pygame.  All my pygame dependent programs are segfaulting without and error.

I tried to diagnose the problem myself by launching python from cli and trying 'import pygame'.  This meets with a segfault and the error:

Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Bus Error
Aborted

The only difference is that I upgraded to 64-bit.  Does anybody else have this problem?

Last edited by lunchbox (2008-06-16 22:51:32)

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [Solved] Python: pygame won't work

Works here:
$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 23 2008, 21:07:14)
[GCC 4.2.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pygame
>>>

I don't know what would cause that error.

lunchbox

Member

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 28

Re: [Solved] Python: pygame won't work

Wow that's weird I just decided to make sure my dependencies were in check and sure enough it was one of them.  I'm not sure which one it was but I reinstalled them all with:

sudo pacman -S sdl sdl_ttf sdl_mixer sdl_image smpeg libvorbis python python-numeric

Now its all better.  Weird...