Today I compiled fresh R2.3 sources hoping that buggy release is now polished enough to play.
Unfortunately skirmish map crash while loading.
2010/07/17 12:59:04 ==== InitGame ====
2010/07/17 12:59:05 SV_AssembleMap: Sequential map assembly in 877 ms
2010/07/17 12:59:05 CM_LoadMap: "-africa/af_ +craft_ufo_scout +craft_drop_firebird +empty1 +empty2 +house1 +house2 +house3 +house4 +house5 +fence1 +fence3 +misc1 +misc1 +house3" "0 -16 0 -24 -16 0 0 8 0 -8 8 0 16 -16 0 16 0 0 8 8 0 -24 8 0 -8 0 0 8 0 0 16 -8 0 -8 -8 0 -8 -16 0 16 8 0"
2010/07/17 12:59:05 Rerouted for RMA in 0.0s
2010/07/17 12:59:05 checksum for the map '+africa': 1658997690
2010/07/17 12:59:05 ufo script checksum 300262511
2010/07/17 12:59:05 Created AI player (team 0)
2010/07/17 12:59:05 Created AI player (team 7)
2010/07/17 12:59:05 -------------------------------------
2010/07/17 12:59:05 Connecting to localhost...
2010/07/17 12:59:05 connection attempt from loopback connection
2010/07/17 12:59:06 load material file: 'materials/africa.mat'
2010/07/17 12:59:12 added light, ambient=0.476837
2010/07/17 12:59:14 Starting the game...
2010/07/17 12:59:14 N has joined team 1
2010/07/17 12:59:14 music change to PsymongO4 (from van_theme)
2010/07/17 12:59:18 (player 0) It's team 1's round
2010/07/17 12:59:18 N has taken control over team 1.
2010/07/17 12:59:18 ********************
2010/07/17 12:59:18 ERROR: Unknown model type in R_DrawEntities entity chain: 0
2010/07/17 12:59:18 ********************
2010/07/17 12:59:18 Shutdown server: Server crashed.
2010/07/17 12:59:18 ==== ShutdownGame ====
full console log attached