Bug 64908

Summary:	Gnome games can't write scores to /var/games
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <hassman>
Component:	gnome-libs	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	agk, xocowocuz
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Description Need Real Name 2002-05-14 10:26:01 UTC

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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.