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Bug 64908 - Gnome games can't write scores to /var/games
Summary: Gnome games can't write scores to /var/games
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-libs
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 69394 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-14 10:26 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2019-06-03 16:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-08-21 17:42:10 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-05-14 10:26:01 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408

Description of problem:
Some games (I see it in gnome-games e.g same-gnome, gnomine) try write gamescore
to /var/games directory, but this directory don't exists. In rpm
filesystem-2.1.6-2 is defined directory /var/lib/games (with score files), but
not /var/games - it seems there is a mistake (in games or in filesystem)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start same-gnome game (from GNOME)
2.Play and win :-) 


Actual Results:  The game stop and in ~/.xsession-errors is message:
GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
/var/games/same-gnome.scores: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  They may apperar dialog with new gamescore

Additional info:
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-05-14 15:09:33 UTC 
Yuck, not good. Probably just a mistake in the gnome-games spec file pointing 
the apps at the wrong scores directory.
Comment 2 Mihai Ibanescu 2002-06-25 14:37:19 UTC 
Same goes for mahjongg, it tries to read the scores files from /var/games.
Comment 3 John MacLean 2002-07-23 01:40:45 UTC 
I'm experiencing the same problem with all gnome-games. misa's comment provides
the hint to a workaround that does it for me. 
>su -c 'ln -s /var/lib/games /var/games'

Still need to create at least one high score in each game before Game/Scores
gives a popup (this might be normal behaviour, I don't know).
Comment 4 Preston Brown 2002-08-14 17:28:01 UTC 
actually, this is a problem in libgnome, not gnome-games.
Comment 5 Elliot Lee 2002-08-21 17:30:37 UTC 
Fixed in libgnome-2.0.2-4
Comment 6 Preston Brown 2002-08-21 17:42:04 UTC 
*** Bug 69394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Jay Turner 2002-09-03 15:19:13 UTC 
Fix confirmed with libgnome-2.0.2-5.
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