On Thursday, November 08, 2012 04:11:58, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 11/07/2012 07:59 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > You're correct about the error being thrown -- until now I've never > > noticed it because I generally start Mumble graphically. Mumble seems > > to work fine (communication-wise) even though the error gets thrown. > > > > From what I can see, this might be expected behavior of the program > > because /usr/share/doc/mumble/Readme.Linux discusses using LD_PRELOAD or > > the 'mumble- overlay' program (which is shipped with the 'mumble' > > package) in the case where the OpenGL overlay is desired -- but it's > > /not/ required. What's going on is that Mumble is designed with 3D > > gaming in mind, and the overlay is for showing a list of people in the > > channel and who is actively speaking while you're playing a game; but > > this overlay and the plugins for the overlay (for particular games) are > > only needed in a 3D game, and not otherwise. > > > > So I thank you for pointing this out because it's interesting, but I'm > > not sure if it's actually a bug. ;-) Let me know what you think. > > hm, i see what you mean that it isn't really a bug. > > however, when mumble fails for whatever reason, a natural approach is to > look at the console output to see what sort of errors are coming up. > This happened to me, and this message spew led me down some time of wild > goose chasing that i would rather have spent actually getting my client > working. > > That kind of red herring seems like a misfeature at best.
I agree. Looks like Gregor already found that this has been fixed in Ubuntu. Gregor -- thanks for the diff. The major thing I see is an added Build- Depends on libqt4-opengl-dev. I'm going to try making that one change and see if it fixes the bug, yet still allows Mumble to start on a non-OpenGL system (i.e. in a VM). -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
