From Bugzilla Helper: 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:
Yuck, not good. Probably just a mistake in the gnome-games spec file pointing the apps at the wrong scores directory.
Same goes for mahjongg, it tries to read the scores files from /var/games.
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).
actually, this is a problem in libgnome, not gnome-games.
Fixed in libgnome-2.0.2-4
*** Bug 69394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fix confirmed with libgnome-2.0.2-5.