When I move a chess piece, the piece will not stay in the selected square. I select Peer, Play against Engine, select Crafty or GNU chess. Page appears, click OK, then both page and chessboard disappears from the Ubuntu screen. I downloaded Xboard for comparison and the file appears under Dash,but I don't know how to activate it. Same goes for any other downloaded file. I would like to move these files to the Launcher, but wonder if that would be enough to get them working. I have achieved a passing familiarity with Ubuntu to date (windows XP past experience) and I suspect that I am lacking an understanding of how files,folders, programs work in Ubuntu, So any direction from the community will be helpful, I'm sure. I upgraded to 14.04 yesterday and use GUI only. Command line usage is in the distant future, if at all.
1 Answer
It is a bug in eboard that you are seeing,
you did nothing wrong.
I just tried what you did, and eboard crashed.
The bug was already reported at launchpad: crash if select crafty engine
So, as the issue seems to depend on "Crafty", could you use something else as workaround?
Stack trace after starting eboard and selecting "Crafty" to play against:
$ eboard
*** buffer overflow detected ***: eboard terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x741cf)[0x7faf00bb21cf]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x5c)[0x7faf00c49b2c]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x10a9f0)[0x7faf00c489f0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x10a10b)[0x7faf00c4810b]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__snprintf_chk+0x78)[0x7faf00c48028]
eboard[0x4682c8]
eboard[0x467fc0]
eboard[0x43e1b9]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x138)[0x7faf01c623b8]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(+0x21d3d)[0x7faf01c73d3d]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0xdd9)[0x7faf01c7ba29]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x82)[0x7faf01c7bce2]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_activate+0x7c)[0x7faf025de4ec]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_menu_shell_activate_item+0xfd)[0x7faf024e104d]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(+0x13f39c)[0x7faf024e139c]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(+0x12d7e5)[0x7faf024cf7e5]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x138)[0x7faf01c623b8]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(+0x21afb)[0x7faf01c73afb]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0xaa9)[0x7faf01c7b6f9]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x82)[0x7faf01c7bce2]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(+0x23d674)[0x7faf025df674]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_propagate_event+0xc4)[0x7faf024cdf94]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main_do_event+0x2db)[0x7faf024ce34b]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(+0x5922c)[0x7faf0214922c]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x254)[0x7faf01992e04]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x49048)[0x7faf01993048]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x6a)[0x7faf0199330a]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xa7)[0x7faf024cd417]
eboard[0x40a6fe]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7faf00b5fec5]
eboard[0x40adb3]
