I get the same error. In fact, I haven't been able to start the game for about a year.
* Slune * Slune lives in /usr/share/games * Soya * Using 8 bits stencil buffer * Soya * version 0.13.2 * Using OpenGL 1.3 Mesa 7.0.4 * - renderer : Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 8x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL * - vendor : Tungsten Graphics, Inc. * - maximum number of lights : 8 * - maximum number of clip planes : 6 * - maximum number of texture units : 6 * - maximum texture size : 2048 pixels Exception exceptions.TypeError: 'exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not exceptions.RuntimeError' in '_soya._init_sound' ignored Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/games/slune", line 42, in <module> soya.set_sound_volume(globdef.SOUND_VOLUME) File "sound.pyx", line 103, in _soya.set_sound_volume TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not exceptions.RuntimeError * Soya3D * Quit... I'm guessing it's expecting something to be present that it doesn't depend on. I'm using KDE if that's got something to do with it.