Hey guys,
I couldn't find any solutions for my problem while I was searching for it and I thought maybe someone somewhere may want to know about this. Hopefully this is a good location for this.
TLDR:
yaml-cpp 0.5.2-2 doesn't work on arch linux 64 bit
rolling back to yaml-cpp 0.5.1-1 fixes the problem.
I'm running 64bit arch linux on a macbook and I had a LOT of trouble getting openXcom to work. It turns out, after much handwringing, that the yaml-cpp parser that arch linux has updated to recently (0.5.2-2) doesn't work. I found this out since I had an unupdated machine with yaml-cpp 0.5.1-1 (on which openxcom works). Rolling back yaml to this older version worked on the otherwise updated arch linux installation. I don't know if this may be an issue for linux users on other distros with up to date yamls, which is why I decided to come to the openxcom forums with this.
Here's a sample logfile when the problem was happening:
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Data folder is: /home/sean/backups/data/XCOM/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Data search is:
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] - /home/sean/backups/data/XCOM/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] - /home/sean/.local/share/openxcom/data/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] - /usr/local/share/openxcom/data/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] - /usr/share/openxcom/data/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] - /usr/share/openxcomhttps://data/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] - ./data/
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] User folder is: ./
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Config folder is: ./
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Options loaded successfully.
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] SDL initialized successfully.
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] SDL_mixer initialized successfully.
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Attempting to set display to 640x400x8...
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Display set to 640x400x8.
[10-04-2015 17:34:01] [INFO] Loading ruleset...
[10-04-2015 17:34:02] [WARN] yaml-cpp: error at line 0, column 0: invalid node; this may result from using a map iterator as a sequence iterator, or vice-versa
[10-04-2015 17:34:02] [ERROR] Failed to load ruleset
If you want me to post other information that I can find, do let me know.
