SRU: ogre exception when starting - can't load library (no change rebuild)

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I get the same error message when attempting to start freeorion on Ubuntu Trusty. I notice the ogre library in Ubuntu is different (and newer) than the one in Debian. Maybe this can explain the issue?

I believe this bug is caused by changes made to Ubuntu's version of Ogre. See also

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ogre-1.8/+bug/1244592

The version of Ogre differs from the one in Debian.

The value for "Pluginfolder" in

/usr/share/games/freeorion/ogre_plugins.cfg

is generated at build-time and points on amd64 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/OGRE-1.8.0.

Since the version of Ogre is different, the plugins can't most likely be found. Although I noticed that an Ubuntu patch tries to compensate this by symlinking the OGRE-1.8.1 plugin folder to OGRE-1.8.0.

What happens if you change the value of Pluginfolder to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/OGRE-1.8.1 ?

Maybe a rebuild will resolve the issue?

Changing pluginfolder in /usr/share/games/freeorion/ogre_plugins.cfg to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/OGRE-1 caused game to at least launch for me.

same issue here , the solution works fine:

set
PluginFolder=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/OGRE-1.8.1

in
/usr/share/games/freeorion/ogre_plugins.cfg

Thanks for solution advice! For me the path is: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/OGRE-1.8.1

Fwiw, the version of freeorion in Ubuntu Utopic seems to work just fine. However, that one uses libogre-1.9.0.

hello all, please try the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

a new-change rebuild is requried

no-change rebuild

Thanks, I uploaded a rebuild - it'll wait in the queue for manual approval. When approved, this bug will get another message and you can then verify if the fix works or not.

Hello Jason, or anyone else affected,

Accepted freeorion into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeorion/0.4.3-2build1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Thanks for the rebuild which fixes the bug for me. The game starts as intended.

This bug was fixed in the package freeorion - 0.4.3-2build1

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freeorion (0.4.3-2build1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * No change rebuild against Trusty's current OGRE. (LP: #1292308)
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:24:26 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for freeorion has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.