ZSNES crashes loading save state Ubuntu 10.10

[avantbored]

hello,

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and was playing Chrono Trigger just fine until today. I often use the "save state" feature, but today it crashed on me. Ran zsnes in terminal and found it is a "Segmentation Fault." Scoured various forums and adjusted permissions and paths, but no avail; ZSNES won't load my save state in Chrono Trigger. below is the output from terminal when trying to load save state.

Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event7. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event6. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event5. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event4. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event3. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
ao_alsa ERROR: Unrecognized channel name "� B��t��
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�|�R�+1�����&" in channel matrix "� B��t��
<������ �
�|�R�+1�����&"
ao_alsa WARNING: Input channel matrix invalid; ignoring.

Audio Opened.
Driver: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
Channels: 2
Rate: 48000

ZSNES could not find any joysticks.
Segmentation fault

I am running ZSNES on a laptop, too, if that is relevant at all. Please help!! I got so far!

Ryan

[odditude]

just to make sure - you've duplicated the issue after rebooting, right?

[avantbored]

yes; ive tried several times to load the save state restarting ZSNES. i have not restarted the system -- will try that now.



UPDATE: system reboot did not affect the issue

[paulguy]

Check your ALSA configuration in .asoundrc in your home directory, /etc/asound.conf and as a last resort, /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf. The last one should mention any other files it's sourcing, and if it is, check those too.

Otherwise, it seems like a bug in your distribution's libraries.

[avantbored]

what irregularities should i be looking for? other forums have suggested that i run 'zsnes -ad alsa' (i'm a noob) but this does not resolve the issue. should i also try a clean install of zsnes??

[paulguy]

Eh, it's probably not that if it doesn't look odd o begin with. I'd be willing to blame some package being buggy. Ubuntu auto-updates, right? Could be the source of random failures.

[avantbored]

yes, it has an auto-update feature. is there anything i can do to fix it? or should i just buck up and start CT over?

[odditude]

roll back the updates prior to the failure, and then reapply one-by-one until you isolate the issue

[avantbored]

is there an easier way to resolve the issue? if not i will just try to find a save state elsewhere.