Catastrophic failure in KSudoku

[Ian Wadham]

> On 19 Mar 2019, at 2:24 pm, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> I'll see what I can figure out. no problem. Albert are you building with kdesrc-build ? or manually? I'm using kdesrc-build buliding into /usr/local. Until this morning libkdegames didn't build because I was missing libsndfile, after adding that I'm seeing the same failure described by Duncan in the bug. I'll debug it tomorrow and see what's causing it.

The variants that fail are all those whose rules are defined by XML files in ksudoku/src/shapes
— and only those variants. The failure point in KSudoku appears to be exactly where it calls the
loadCustomShape method in the sudoku::Serializer code. See details in
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405422#c3

My guess is that some newer version of XML parsing libraries dislikes KSudoku’s XML files or
possibly that some changed XML version or DOCTYPE has got into the act.

Ian W.

> BR,
> Jeremy
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 4:52 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El dilluns, 18 de març de 2019, a les 20:44:06 CET, Jeremy Whiting va escriure:
> > Yep, same thing happens here. Aztec -> Generate A Puzzle shows a dialog box
> > that says "
> > 
> > Unable to generate a puzzle of the chosen variant; please try another."
> > with a build I just did.
> 
> Weird, works just fine for me.
> 
> Jeremy guess it's on you to debug it :/
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > 
> > 
> > BR,
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:24 PM Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > It appears that KSudoku is failing catastrophically. Only the most vanilla
> > > puzzle types can be selected
> > > (i.e.  Classic Sudoku nxn and Roxdoku nxnxn). All others fail to create
> > > their data-structures from XML
> > > files and so fail to generate a puzzle and display it (e.g. XSudoku,
> > > Killer Sudoku, Aztec, Samurai
> > > and many more).
> > >
> > > For more details, please see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405422,
> > > especially comment #3.
> > >
> > > This was reported by Duncan, who builds KF5 and apps from live-git and has
> > > just noticed the problem
> > > appearing in the last week or two --- more recently than any changes in
> > > the KSudoku source.
> > >
> > > Please can someone who has access to builds and executables of the latest
> > > development (HEAD)
> > > KSudoku code check if they can reproduce this error? You just need to run
> > > KSudoku, select Aztec
> > > puzzle-type (for example) and click on “Generate A Puzzle”.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Ian Wadham.
> > >
> > >
> > 
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