[SOLVED]x86_64 Linux ADVENT?

Is there an implementation of the ancient game "Adventures in Colossal Cave" that runs on 64-bit Linux? I found a Windoze version a while back and liked it. Also, I'm intrigued by any artifacts from the elder days.
Last edited by sethradio (2013-04-05 17:50:29)

You might want to install
ewaller@odin:/etc 1025 %pacman -Ss bsd-games
community/bsd-games 2.17-13 [installed]
A linux port for a collection of BSD command line games.
ewaller@odin:/etc 1026 %
edit:
ewaller@odin:/etc 1026 %adventure
Welcome to Adventure!! Would you like instructions?
yes
Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave, where others have found fortunes in
treasure and gold, though it is rumored that some who enter are never
seen again. Magic is said to work in the cave. I will be your eyes
and hands. Direct me with commands of 1 or 2 words. I should warn
you that I look at only the first five letters of each word, so you'll
have to enter "northeast" as "ne" to distinguish it from "north".
(Should you get stuck, type "help" for some general hints. For
information on how to end your adventure, etc., type "info".)
This program was originally developed by Will Crowther. Most of the
features of the current program were added by Don Woods. Address
complaints about the UNIX version to Jim Gillogly ([email protected]).
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and
down a gully.
quit
Do you really want to quit now?
yes
OK
You scored 27 out of a possible 350 using 1 turns.
You are obviously a rank amateur. Better luck next time.
To achieve the next higher rating, you need 9 more points.
ewaller@odin:/etc 1027 %
Last edited by ewaller (2013-04-01 22:44:31)

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And your question is?
Seriously, you say you have read the wiki "superficially"? Read it carefully.
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I know I'm not asking for specifics, and I know the archlinux community is awesome at resolving issues when you specify decently enough, but the idea was to start somewhere. That was the question, but I guess I could have phrased it differently. Problem is that I can't really be specific when I'm so lost.
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I don't want my hand held, that just totally makes no sense. I'm just looking for some pointers to break through the wall, which could mean reading articles that I think I've already read 1000 times. I'll read that page carefully, no doubt. Thank you for pointing the (for others) obvious, but not so obvious to me. You helped me remember a lot stuff that I tried back then.
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Last edited by janoliver (2013-09-25 22:24:53)

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Folks, I have a unique and challenging problem that has exhausted my Arch Linux skills, and so I am now turning to you.
I have a vintage Pentium Pro 200 system (that’s 200 MHz folks! – 200 MHz 686 architecture – the original 686!), two CPUs, running a dual boot between Windows NT 4.0 and Arch Linux Duke (2007). It has 512 MB of RAM and a 120 GB hard drive, partitioned up between Windows NT and Linux. I built this system new in 2007, hence the dated version of Arch. It has run like a charm all these years, granted not getting that much use. After about a year of no use at all, I fired the system up last week to help with a little research for a blog post I was writing on networking Windows NT 4.0 and Mac OS 8.6. Windows NT 4.0 fired right up with no issue, and after I was done testing what needed to be tested I tried to boot over to Arch.
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RIPLinux’s e2fsck did find some issues with the Arch partition and I had it repair them all. I checked again afterwards that all the files were still there, and they were. With the partition now known to be clean, and the superblock repaired from one of the backups, all should have been well. However, Arch still wouldn’t (and still won’t) boot.
RIPLinux has a kind of a chain loader function, so I had it attempt to start up Arch for me. However, this was flummoxed by the fact that Arch addresses all my hard drive partitions as /dev/sdax and RIPLinux addresses them as /dev/hdax. Hence, without a common language, it was hard to get the one to start the other. Still, using this function, I have been able to get a crippled version of Arch running on the machine again. No modules had been loaded, and so it couldn’t do almost anything, but there it was (and is), Arch Linux Duke, at the CLI level. From there, I can see all the files, I can move freely in and out of my user account and the root account, but I can’t make the thing actually boot properly.
If you have read this far, you are a trooper. Summarizing what I know, the hardware is good, the file system is clean, the superblock is good, I can mount it cleanly from a live CD and I can chain load a crippled version of Arch. Here is the boot process blow-by-blow. When I try to do a normal boot, the Windows NT 4.0 loader passes control to the Lilo boot sector I have placed on hda1 (sda1 in Duke’s parlance). Lilo takes over, present a menu and when I select Duke, takes off. Arch Linux Duke starts to boot. It gets a good long way along, all the way along to:
:: Loading udev events [Pass]
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:: Checking file systems
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The next thing I see is:
/dev/sda6
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**********FILE SYSTEM CHECK FAILED ****************************
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At this point, I did a “e2fsck /dev/hda6 (which is how RIPLinux would have passed it into Arch” and it says it is “clean”. I suspect that the Superblock message is because Arch sees root as sda6, while RIP passed it in as hda6...
Deciding to see what Arch would be seeing as it tried to set things up in the boot sequence, I tried the following next:
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(“3” because RIPLinux refers to my hard drive as IDE, while Arch refers to it by major number “8”, which is SCSI. By the way, it IS an IDE drive – not sure why Arch insists on using the sdx nomenclature instead of hdx)
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All was well. I can make the node, I can mount it, and I can see the contents. All is clearly well, but something is clearly wrong enough that Arch can’t boot.
I am totally out of ideas. I have tried every trick I know and am out of tricks. I would welcome any insights as to what I could try to get this venerable Arch installation back on its legs.
By the way, the key section of the /etc/lilo.conf file (lest anyone want to know) is:
image = /boot/vmlinuz26
root = /dev/sda6
label = ArchLinux-Duke
initrd = /boot/kernel26.img
read-only
I am stumped. Thanks in advance for any and all pointers you may be able to offer.
Last edited by mac57 (2014-06-02 17:42:21)

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I should have caught this issue back in 2012, at the time, but from my notes, I can see that I tested the new card thoroughly using the Windows NT 4.0 side of the machine, but never thought to bring up Arch as well. Hence, this problem lay dormant for two years, before I attempted to fire up Arch last month and blundered right into it.
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I installed Arch Linux on the USB key using VirtualBox.
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Syslinux loads Arch using the following kernel command:
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- I'm getting the message "Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .. .. .. ..".
- I already tried to uninstall xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-dri with no effect.
- Additionally: The "default terminals tty1/2/3/..." (which I'm using to start X) from have a poor resolution (I think 640x480 pixel).
When starting the system on a virtual machine or a machine with an ATI Radeon (mobile) graphics card:
- X starts and runs without any trouble the XFCE desktop environment.
- Additionally: The default terminals have a proper resolution (I think the maximal resolution of the display).

1.6.0u18 on x86_64 Linux crashes immediately with OutOfMemory error

Hi,
I'm having a problem with the latest update of the JDK where all the binaries crash immediately with the following error:
# ./java
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
# java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 64 bytes for char in /BUILD_AREA/jdk6_18/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp. Out of swap space?
# Internal Error (allocation.inline.hpp:39), pid=26928, tid=1105066304
# Error: char in /BUILD_AREA/jdk6_18/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
# JRE version: 6.0_18-b07
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (16.0-b13 mixed mode linux-amd64 )
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /root/src/jre1.6.0_18/bin/hs_err_pid26928.log
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
AbortedThis is on a 64-bit CentOS 5.4 machine:
# uname -a
Linux ... 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 07:32:21 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxThe error is actually different sometimes, but always something memory-related (and usually it's the one above).
And it's definitely not out of swap space:
# free -g
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            62         52         10          0          0         43
-/+ buffers/cache:          8         54
Swap:           16          0         16Here's the log file: [hs_err_pid26928.log|http://dl.dropbox.com/u/624277/hs_err_pid26928.log|hs_err_pid26928.log]
I tried both the JDK and the JRE distributions, same problem. The 32-bit JDK works just fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks

I have the vm ulimit set to 16 gigs:
# ulimit -d -v
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 16777216It does seem to work if I remove the limit.
With the limit, specifying a max heap size manually works, and it correctly reports trying to set the heap size too high, but there seems to be a range of sizes close to the maximum that throws the error:
# ./java -Xmx1024m -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_18-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)
# ./java -Xmx8m -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_18-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)
# ./java -Xmx15360m -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_18-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)
# ./java -Xmx16384m -version
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
# ./java -Xmx16100m -version
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
# java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: pthread_getattr_np
# Internal Error (os_linux_x86.cpp:681), pid=10943, tid=1101519168
# Error: pthread_getattr_np
# JRE version: 6.0_18-b07
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (16.0-b13 mixed mode linux-amd64 )
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /root/src/jdk1.6.0_18/bin/hs_err_pid10943.log
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
AbortedI was going to mention that 1.6.0u07 has been working fine for over a year, but it turns out that it just doesn't try to give nice errors for invalid sizes:
# /opt/jdk1.6.0_07/bin/java -Xmx17g -version
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
*** glibc detected *** /opt/jdk1.6.0_07/bin/java: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000040f0df90 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3cfd6722ef]
/lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4b)[0x3cfd67273b]
/opt/jdk1.6.0_07/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so[0x2b74ad54eb7e]
/opt/jdk1.6.0_07/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so[0x2b74ad4f4b54]
/opt/jdk1.6.0_07/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so[0x2b74ad4f6961]
/opt/jdk1.6.0_07/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so[0x2b74ad4fa16c]
/opt/jdk1.6.0_07/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so(JNI_CreateJavaVM+0x80)[0x2b74ad242f20]
java[0x40003598]
java(JavaMain+0x6e)[0x4000206e]
/lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x3cfe206617]
/lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x3cfd6d3c2d]
======= Memory map: ========
[snipped]
AbortedIs there a way to find out how much it actually tries to allocate by default?

[Solved] util-linux and eject in conflict

I have installed all updates smoothly for the past few weeks, but this morning I got this:
:: util-linux and eject are in conflict. Remove eject? [y/N]
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: util-linux and eject are in conflict
I accepted the default action, N. I had checked the News before installing. And, so far, I have been unable to find anything related in these forums.
How should I go about fixing this?
Tim
Last edited by ratcheer (2012-09-24 11:50:09)

I can't solve this problem here with KDE
yaourt -Rs eject
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: udisks: requires eject
and then :
yaourt -Rs eject udisks
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdelibs: requires udisks
:: python2-udiskie: requires udisks
How I can solve this ?

[SOLVED] Arch Linux is zombie infested !!!

Sigh !
I don't know what happened but a few minute before when I rebooted my Arch Linux desktop, it started acting weird.
First thing I do is to start my torrent client Deluge, look there was no icon in the tray for it but it was shown in System-monitor.
Then I started Firefox, a few minute later the whole thing logged off. I renter my password and then again it logged of within one minute.
So I rebooted to see if that changes this time, but this time I could see was that firefox was shown as ZOMBIE process and then when I tried to take the screenshot the system hanged
Some thing I did today was
Installed Yaourt
Then installed nautilus-dropbox plugin
Dropboxd service runs in background, so is there something fishy about the dropbox service. I tried to kill it but it again restarts.
Please help me from zombie infestation, I am writing this from Ubuntu
Last edited by visio159 (2008-09-14 08:41:47)

No one replied !!! huh
Well good news is that my RAM module needed a dust cleanup. Probably due to corrupt memory it was behaving bad.
I am impressed that it (linux) logged me off when it detected that there were memory violation and corruptions to prevent any data damage ! Now can anyone explain this to me ? Is it really a feature or was just random occurring ?
Case solved, learned a lesson too.
Last edited by visio159 (2008-09-13 05:44:10)

[solved]util-linux-ng conflicts with e2fsprogs

i encount this error msg when i am installing apache server in my archlinux,at first i think that is a apache dependencies problem,but later,when i install other program pacman shows the same error msg.so i remove the e2fsprogs,but more programs need e2fsprogs.
what should i do then?
Last edited by yisohoo (2009-09-26 04:58:17)

I had the same problem at install hal, ( pacman -S extra/hal )
CONFLICT util-linux-ng conflicts with e2fsprogs .. remove y/n ? -->> fail by dependences...
pacman -Syu --->>> SOLVED !!
Thx.

[SOLVED] Upgrading Linux 3.0.7-1 - 3.1-4 Breaks Wicd

As the subject points out, upgrading Linux from 3.0.7-1 to 3.1-4 seems to break Wicd on my laptop. When I do this, no wireless networks show up and if I plug in ethernet, I cannot connect to it either. I solved the problem by blacklisting the wicd daemon, unblacklisting the network daemon, and uncommenting interface=eth0 in /etc/rc.conf, then rebooting, downloading the older kernel (3.0.7-1) which I had unfortunately deleted from /etc/pacman/pkg, and downgrading with pacman -U. I wonder if anyone else had similar trouble with this update....
Last edited by tony5429 (2012-04-05 07:43:37)

Can't connect to anything with Wicd anymore either.
Using testing with:
Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
WLAN networks will still show up and apparently connect — LAN ones won't — but Wicd fails to retrieve a IP as all dhcp clients consistently time out.
Manual connection (dhcpcd for LAN + wpa_supplicant for WLAN) works just fine.
edit: Doesn't appear to be caused by that kernel update on my system, though.
edit2: Apparently Wicd's configuration files — which had worked perfectly for months — somehow turned insufficient. I had it create new ones and now it works again.
Last edited by misc (2011-11-13 10:42:49)

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