[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/278 Item 278] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 18:15:21

Black screen when starting a mission. This happens when
starting any map, but very rarely, "retry" clears the
problem completely, hence low Priority.

Log:

FindFile: ./base/models/soldiers/male/head04a.jpg
(player 0) It's team 1's round
ExecuteString: 'numonteam1'
ExecuteString: 'numonteam1'
ExecuteString: 'huddeselect0'
ExecuteString: 'set hud_refresh 1'
ExecuteString: ''
ExecuteString: 'ov_start'
ExecuteString: ''
ExecuteString: 'set mn_showchatbuttons 0'
********************
ERROR: Bad modeltype: 0
********************
==== ShutdownGame ====
ExecuteString: 'dispr'

===== Comments Ported from Sourceforge =====

====== jkaartinen (2006-08-31 21:06:09) ======

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I had this same problem just now. Black screen, though the
hud (althud) was visible. In addition to that, after
clicking on an empty portrait, I got a segfault. It's most
likely not very useful, but here are the debug messages and
a backtrace. I also saved a core file with gdb's
generate-core-file command so if someone wants it or wants
to poke around with it, I can create you an account on my
system. the core file is around 570 megabytes so I might not
be keeping it for very long.

Begin() from Unnamed
You are already on team 1
Unnamed has taken control over team 1.
(player 0) It's team 1's round
ExecuteString: 'numonteam1'
ExecuteString: 'set hud_refresh 1'
ExecuteString: ''
ExecuteString: 'ov_start'
ExecuteString: ''
********************
ERROR: Bad modeltype: 0
********************
==== ShutdownGame ====

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1213155648 (LWP 22086)]
0x08071f77 in MN_Drag (node=0x816a2e4, x=971, y=431) at
client/cl_menu.c:838
838 if (
baseCurrent->curTeam[sel]->fieldSize == ACTOR_SIZE_NORMAL )
(gdb) bt
#0 0x08071f77 in MN_Drag (node=0x816a2e4, x=971, y=431) at
client/cl_menu.c:838
#1 0x08072506 in MN_Click (x=971, y=431) at
client/cl_menu.c:984
#2 0x080690ba in CL_SelectDown () at client/cl_input.c:577
#3 0x0808faa7 in Cmd_ExecuteString (text=0xbfb02e04
"+select 178 20096693")
at qcommon/cmd.c:793
#4 0x0808ed74 in Cbuf_Execute () at qcommon/cmd.c:263
#5 0x0806fcce in CL_SendCommand () at client/cl_main.c:1381
#6 0x080703ba in CL_Frame (msec=1) at client/cl_main.c:1590
#7 0x08098cd1 in Qcommon_Frame (msec=1) at
qcommon/common.c:1540
#8 0x080b027c in main (argc=10, argv=0xbfb03394) at
ports/linux/sys_linux.c:421
(gdb)

====== bandobraz (2006-09-07 16:02:30) ======

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I've learned the workaround by Retry not always work. Hereby
I declare this bug to be the RC5 release stopper bug. Please
help!!!

See also bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1554101&group_id=157793&atid=805242
====== cassiterite (2006-09-07 22:39:10) ======

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Jiten (jkaartinen) spent many an hour debugging this and
found the issue and fix! Very excellent work. I applied a
patch to SVN trunk which implements this (rev 3435). Marking
this bug as done and dusted!