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utilitarian

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Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« on: December 06, 2011, 12:43:55 am »

I am playing on a mac( :(), with the Monster Hunter Universe, and Fortress Defense mods, and the Ironhand texture pack.

Here is the message in terminal before it crashes.

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Any help is appreciated.
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Miuramir

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2011, 11:15:12 am »

I am playing on a mac( :(), with the Monster Hunter Universe, and Fortress Defense mods, and the Ironhand texture pack.

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/Users/temp/Desktop/DFORT/Dwarf Fortress II/df_osx/df: line 5: 50128 Bus error               ./dwarfort.exe
...

I'm not a Mac expert, but I'd strongly recommend running a detailed memory check, and then your system's diagnostics.  I use Memtest86+ on our Linux and Windows systems, and I believe it should work on most modern Intel-based Macs.  DF stresses out a computer in ways that most apps don't, and is very sensitive to memory errors; normally a bus error would indicate something has gone seriously awry such as memory or hard disk errors corrupting data enough that DF crashes or is terminated by the OS. 
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2011, 06:30:17 pm »

I am playing on a mac( :(), with the Monster Hunter Universe, and Fortress Defense mods, and the Ironhand texture pack.

...
/Users/temp/Desktop/DFORT/Dwarf Fortress II/df_osx/df: line 5: 50128 Bus error               ./dwarfort.exe
...

I'm not a Mac expert, but I'd strongly recommend running a detailed memory check, and then your system's diagnostics.  I use Memtest86+ on our Linux and Windows systems, and I believe it should work on most modern Intel-based Macs.  DF stresses out a computer in ways that most apps don't, and is very sensitive to memory errors; normally a bus error would indicate something has gone seriously awry such as memory or hard disk errors corrupting data enough that DF crashes or is terminated by the OS. 

 :o That doesn't sound very good...


I'll get on that. If it's any help, these errors tend to occur during specific events, such as scrolling further down the page in legends mode or hitting Alt+Y to confirm attack in adventure mode. It also doesn't occur with unmodded version with Mayday installed.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2011, 12:45:59 am »

Use a different font. The default should work.

Get back to me and tell me if it helps :)
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utilitarian

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2011, 03:46:25 pm »

That is in the .init files, correct? Which font setting do I change, and to what?
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2011, 04:16:13 pm »

/Users/temp/Desktop/DFORT/Dwarf Fortress II/df_osx/df: line 5: 50128 Bus error

Wait... wait wait wait wait wait. Dwarf Fortress II?

How did you get all the way here from 2085?
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2011, 04:39:16 pm »

/Users/temp/Desktop/DFORT/Dwarf Fortress II/df_osx/df: line 5: 50128 Bus error

Wait... wait wait wait wait wait. Dwarf Fortress II?

How did you get all the way here from 2085?

 :P That is the name of the folder. I named it such based upon its mods.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2011, 01:51:04 pm »

Can anyone help with:

Use a different font. The default should work.

Get back to me and tell me if it helps :)

Please? (sorry to semi-necro)
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Crashing
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2011, 03:18:49 pm »

By any chance do you have TrueType mode enabled? If so, turn it off - it's buggy and causes crashes. I've figured out how to fix the bug in the Windows SDL version (2F063F : BE -> B6, 2F07DD : BE -> B6) and can easily do the same for the Legacy version if needed, but I can't fix the Linux or MacOS versions myself.
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