Bug 251223 - gnome-sudoku not saving high scores, generated puzzles, state of current game
Summary: gnome-sudoku not saving high scores, generated puzzles, state of current game
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-games
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-07 20:29 UTC by Catalin Francu
Modified: 2008-06-02 18:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-06-02 18:07:44 UTC
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Contents of ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-sudoku/%gconf.xml (2.36 KB, text/xml)
2007-08-07 20:29 UTC, Catalin Francu
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Description Catalin Francu 2007-08-07 20:29:28 UTC
Description of problem:

gnome-sudoku not saving high scores, generated puzzles, state of current game

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

gnome-games-2.18.2.1-2.fc7

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open gnome-sudoku.
2. Click File->Generate new puzzles.
3. Select "Generate until reaching target", set "Target number" to 2, select
only very hard puzzles and click "Generate".
4. Wait for generator to complete. My gnome-sudoku came with 3 very hard games,
so now the text correctly updates to say "Very Hard: 5 puzzles".
5. Click Close to dismiss the generator.
6. In the current puzzle, fill in some boxes at random.
7. (Optional, takes some time). Finish an entire game to generate a high score
entry. Type in your name.
8. Exit gnome-sudoku
9. Open gnome-sudoku

Actual results:

a) The current game was not saved. Instead I see the same game started from scratch.
b) The high score table is empty. Game->High scores is grayed out. When I
complete another game, the high score table becomes accessible again and the
previous entry is gone.
c) When I select File->Generate new puzzles, I only see 3 very hard puzzles. The
two that I generated before were not saved.



Expected results:
a) The current state of the game should be saved. The manual (hit F1) section
3.1 even refers to a menu option "File->Resume old game", which does not exist.
b) The high score table should contain entries from previous instances of the game.
c) The generated puzzles should be saved and should be visible under File->New
-> Details.



Additional info:
- I wasn't aware of the gnome-sudoku package in previous Fedora Cores. The first
time I ran the game was in FC7 where it is bundled in gnome-games. Thus, I do
not know if this behaviour existed before.
- I don't know where gnome-sudoku is supposed to save its data. I ran "find
~|grep -i sudoku" and the only result was ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-sudoku/%gconf.xml.
I am attaching that file.

Comment 1 Catalin Francu 2007-08-07 20:29:28 UTC
Created attachment 160851 [details]
Contents of ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-sudoku/%gconf.xml

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-08-14 15:54:14 UTC
It seems to have:
DATA_DIR = ~/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku/
save_to_dir=os.path.join(DATA_DIR,'games/')
game_loc = os.path.join(save_to_dir,
                        "game%s"%game_number)
saver.pickle_game(self, game_loc)

So it seems like it's supposed to be saving games in ~/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku



Comment 3 Catalin Francu 2007-08-14 17:28:07 UTC
Interesting. ~/.gnome2 exists in the user's account, but ~/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku
does not. I ran gnome-sudoku from the command line to see what it does and it
prints all sorts of errors:

[daria@voronet ~]$ gnome-sudoku 
Unable to load puzzles: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or
directory: '/home/daria/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku/generated_puzzles'
[daria@voronet ~]$ mkdir ~/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku
[daria@voronet ~]$ gnome-sudoku 
Unable to load puzzles: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or
directory: '/home/daria/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku/generated_puzzles'
[daria@voronet ~]$ mkdir .gnome2/gnome-sudoku/games
[daria@voronet ~]$ touch .gnome2/gnome-sudoku/generated_puzzles
[daria@voronet ~]$ gnome-sudoku 
Unable to load puzzles: <type 'exceptions.EOFError'>: 

Gnome-sudoku itself does not seem to create the files if they are not already
there. gnome-sudoku -v prints a bunch of extra information, but it isn't relevant.

Also, it's strange that the "Resume old game" option is missing from the File
menu altogether.




Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-08-14 17:48:38 UTC
Now that you have the directories made, can you still reproduce the problem?

Comment 5 Catalin Francu 2007-08-15 00:17:45 UTC
Yes, the problem is still there. If I only create the directories, gnome-sudoku
still complains about a missing files:

[daria@voronet ~]$ gnome-sudoku
Unable to load puzzles: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or
directory: '/home/daria/.gnome2/gnome-sudoku/generated_puzzles'

If in addition I also create an empty file generated_puzzles, gnome-sudoku
complains about (probably) a bad file format:

[daria@voronet ~]$ touch .gnome2/gnome-sudoku/generated_puzzles
[daria@voronet ~]$ gnome-sudoku
Unable to load puzzles: <type 'exceptions.EOFError'>: 

Then if I generate some puzzles and exit gnome-sudoku, the file
generated_puzzles still has zero length.

The menu option "File->Resume old game", which the manual section 3.1 document,
is absent altogether, regardless of what I do.


Comment 6 Glenn Rottingen 2007-09-23 17:14:13 UTC
I am running F8Test2 with Gnome-Games 2.20.0.1-1.F8 and the same problem is
reoccuring.

Comment 7 Ian Weller 2008-03-01 02:47:48 UTC
Problem still exists, gnome-games-2.20.3-1.fc8

I'm currently taking a look to see if it's a problem with upstream or us.

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 13:54:41 UTC
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Comment 9 Kevin R. Page 2008-05-14 14:50:51 UTC
As already stated in comment #7 the problem still exists in the current F8
update. Please could maintainer or reporter change version to 8.

Adding an upstream bz reference - looks like it *might* be fixed in Gnome 2.22 /
F9 (not verified).

Comment 10 Ian Weller 2008-05-14 18:47:58 UTC
changed version to 8. i'll see what it does in F9.

Comment 11 Kevin R. Page 2008-05-19 11:49:11 UTC
Looks good in F9 to me.

Comment 12 Peter van Egdom 2008-06-02 18:07:44 UTC
Thank you for the bug report. Closing bug as per comment #11.

If you still experience this problem after updating to our latest Fedora
release, reopen this bug against that version if this bug exists there.


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