Problems and solutions for installing or running FreeOrion, including discussion of bugs if needed before posting a bug report on GitHub. For problems building from source, post in Compile.
Hi. I used to love Stars!, but now I'm a F/OSS junkie, so I figured I'd give FreeOrion a try.
I tried to compile it under Ubuntu Feisty, but scons complains about the boost version being too old. So I went for the statically linked version. I checked to make sure I had all the dependencies from the README installed, but it's possible I missed something.
It flashes a black screen, then exits. Here's the command line output:
$ strace -f -o /tmp/strace ./freeorion
Following into my basedir
CWD: /work/notwork/fo/freeorion/application
umovestr: Input/output error
umovestr: Input/output error
ptrace: umoven: Input/output error