Ha, now fixed! I uninstalled a bunch of nvidia glx packages, restarted X, and now oolite starts just fine.
Some more obvious hint to look in that logfile would have been helpful when it failed to start at all! All the best, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org