[Linux] After an update, importing DirectStart crashes

Scripting Issues
1

I’m running Kubuntu 8.10 i386. Eager to enjoy the deliciousness of KDE 4.2, I recently did a bunch of updates. Now, all panda programs crash right after importing DirectStart.

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:24:49)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import direct.directbase.DirectStart
DirectStart: Starting the game.
Warning: DirectNotify: category 'Interval' already exists
Known pipe types:
  glxGraphicsPipe
(all display modules loaded.)
Aborted
ben@barracuda:~/Projects/Dots_And_Dashes/panda$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:24:49)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import direct.directbase.DirectStart
DirectStart: Starting the game.
Warning: DirectNotify: category 'Interval' already exists
Known pipe types:
  glxGraphicsPipe
(all display modules loaded.)
Aborted

other opengl apps and engines work as before without issues. I wonder if I updated something Python-related which caused some problems?

thanks for any suggestions…
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2

Woah, that’s odd. Since 90% of all the linux crashes are OpenAL-related, try editing /etc/Config.prc, search for the line that says:

audio-library-name p3openal_audio

Replace it with:

audio-library-name p3fmod_audio

If that’s not the issue, you should do a traceback so you can at least see where the problem originates.