Recent update has b0rked QuakeLive

hendry · 2010-02-03 18:56:06

I've been happily playing Quake Live with Arch Linux for the last few months.

However an update a few days ago, around the 1/2/2010 has made Quake Live unplayable. I am not sure what is the cause of the bug. Or how to roll back and perhaps find the bug myself.

Has anyone seen corruption like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/4327768431/

Thanks,

loafer · 2010-02-03 20:30:22

http://www.archlinux.org/news/482/

I would guess that the Quake Live plugin doesn't use the latest packages.

hendry · 2010-02-03 21:16:51

I don't understand. Why can't you just update the library. Why does everything need a rebuild? The interface has changed? If so, that's insane surely?

hendry · 2010-02-04 09:22:41

I guess this proprietary plugin should have been statically built in the first place.

olujicz · 2010-02-04 09:34:16

There is topic on quake live forum about this: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43859

ngoonee · 2010-02-04 09:46:33

hendry wrote:

I don't understand. Why can't you just update the library. Why does everything need a rebuild? The interface has changed? If so, that's insane surely?

API and ABI. They change from major version to major version (even minor version depending on what library specifically).

thefake · 2010-02-05 07:51:33

olujicz wrote:

There is topic on quake live forum about this: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43859

Thanks, there is also a hint to make a workaround, i'll summarize it here:

fat0troll wrote:

in last update on Arch we have new version of libpng. The QL plugin was builded under libpng v. 1.2, but now we have libpng v. 1.4

Next is fat0troll's fix:

find in aur libpng12 and install it
e.g.

yaourt -S libpng12

now firefox has to be run with this string:

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libpng12.so" /usr/bin/firefox

Quake live should work now

fat0troll changed his ff completely by doing this:

mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/ff

and writing a small script instead

#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libpng12.so" /usr/bin/ff $*

mikesd · 2010-02-06 07:47:38

I'm glad to see there is a workaround for this. I use it in an alias:

alias quakelive='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng12.so /usr/bin/firefox http://www.quakelive.com'

Barghest · 2010-02-06 08:55:16

--nevermind--

Last edited by Barghest (2010-02-06 10:47:10)

thefake · 2010-02-06 10:58:24

aye an even more elegant way

[KNS]Kumo · 2010-02-08 21:24:01

Same happens to me. I'll try the workaround.

clutch · 2010-11-16 02:44:13

not working for me. I built libpng12 from aur and used alias quakelive='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/bin/libpng12.so blah blah' but ff just ignores it because libpng12.so isn't in my /usr/bin. Just the newer one.

ideas? I've been away from Arch for a long time now, so I may just be doing something stupid I've forgotten about.

[hush@mothership libpng12]$ ls /usr/bin/ | grep libpng
libpng14-config
libpng-config

Last edited by clutch (2010-11-16 02:49:37)

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Recent update has b0rked QuakeLive

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