Mostly Tigerproof

Bug #19452 – Game crashes on main menu!

Reproduction steps:

1. Play an 8-player multiplayer game for half an hour on the ‘Cliffs of Precipity’ map.
2. Quit via the pause menu.
3. Reboot the console.
4. Go to lunch, eat a meat pie.
5. Come back, press X until the splash screens are gone.
6. Pick 1-player item from the main menu

Comment #1 by Larry Tester:

Oh my god! It happened again, but this time I ate a curry chicken pie. Filling is not a factor. It’s the PASTRY that’s disrupting the game.

Comment #2 by J. Random Hacker

Can’t reproduce this. My software wouldn’t crash on a mere menu selection. Please stop reopening this, I’m busy enough without having to sort through these fever-addled ravings.

Status changed: Open → Closed: Testers Smoking Crack

Comment #3 by Larry Tester:

Why are you so mean to us?

Attached: VideoEvidence.avi

Status changed: Reopened

Comment #4 by J. Random Hacker

Recommending that management reduce the crack rations of the test team.

Status changed: Open → Closed: Testers Smoking Crack

Comment #5 by J. Random Hacker

Uh, I think I’ve found a fix.

I was stepping through the menu selection code and accidentally happened to step into the C runtime. Luckily Magic Kev was walking past. He caught a glimpse of the disassembly window. Something in that asm freaked him right out – he came to an abrupt stop, pointed at the listing and was shrieking “NO! NO! NO!” over and over until we managed to force-feed him his epilepsy pills.

When I took a closer look I realised I was looking at malloc, the non-threadsafe version. Turns out there was a mix-up in the project settings a couple of weeks ago. Magic Kev was right again. How does he do it??

Status changed: Fixed

I’m terribly sorry and obviously I’m rescinding my recommendation to management about crack. Test team crack rations should be maintained at their current levels, if not greatly increased.