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:
Code:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
10% of the time I get various messages similar to the segmentation fault such as:
Code:
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)
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.