MAME crashes on Mint19/Ubuntu 18.04
 

Hi, I have Mint19 (which is based on Ubuntu 18.04).

I've installed MAME and whenever I run it, it just crashes.
If I run it from the shell by typing mame, I get various results.
80% of the time, the GUI does not start and I just get:
10% of the time I get various messages similar to the segmentation fault such as:
10% of the time the GUI will start for a second before it quits and I get the above messages.

I know you'll likely need more info such as hardware, however I don't know if it would help as it does the same thing on 3 platforms on which I have installed:

• a laptop
• a desktop
• virtualbox vm

I've installed mame from both the normal mint/ubuntu repository (version 195) and from the mame ppa (version 199). Simply apt-get install mame. Same results for each.

It's so consistent (that it fails) and I've searched internets and I'm surprised I don't see a rash of problems.

Let me know if more info is needed (as noted, it doesn't seem to be hardware dependent).

I've tried running "mame -v" and it spits out a lot of info and the only error is the segmentation fault at the end.

On all of these platforms, MAME runs fine in Mint17.

um..I actually solved it by pure dumb luck.
When I run mame -v it spits out a bunch of info.
I noticed one line where it referred to lircd.
I remembered that I have the lirc package installed.. but I don't have it configured.
So lirc is actually running if you look at ps ax, but who knows what it is doing if it is not configured.
So I just removed that package with apt-get purge.
Bingo, mame works now.

You solved my problem too, thank you so much. It was driving me crazy :)