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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0013323Dwarf FortressTechnical -- Generalpublic2025-12-14 15:39
ReportercallistoAshley Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Platformx86_64OSArch LinuxOS VersionMost recent
Product Version53.01 
Summary0013323: Crashes on startup
DescriptionRunning ./run_df or ./dwarfort causes a segmentation fault.
Steps To Reproduce[ashley@callisto df_53_01]$ ./run_df
./run_df: line 4: 4480 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}${DF_DIR}" ./dwarfort "$@"
Additional InformationI'm on Arch Linux.

"errorlog.txt" is empty.

This is the stack trace from the journal: https://pastebin.com/riiXLBxU
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callistoAshley

2025-11-04 00:35

reporter   ~0042962

This is likely caused by a regression in sdl2-compat 2.32.58 as downgrading it to the previous version solved the issue.
Also, the crash occurs on 52.04 and 50.11, so I don't think this is an issue with Dwarf Fortress.

Thopterek

2025-12-14 15:39

reporter   ~0043029

Thank you callistoAshley, it worked! If someone ever has problems I can recommend using downgrade:

install downgrade (AUR)

sudo downgrade sdl2-compat

and from the menu choose the cached version if dwarf fortress was working before if not the one that works for me is: 2.32.56-2

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Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-11-03 12:37 callistoAshley New Issue
2025-11-04 00:35 callistoAshley Note Added: 0042962
2025-12-14 15:39 Thopterek Note Added: 0043029