Bug 104002 – games-arcade/smclone-0.97 doesn't create preferences file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Henrique Rodrigues 2005-08-27 20:02:39 UTC]

games-arcade/smclone-0.97 doesn't create a preferences file when run. If a user
sets his preferences or saves a game, all will be lost when he quits the
application.

Bug 103801 may also be noteworthy:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103801

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch smc
2. change configuration
3. quit smc

Actual Results:  
No preferences file is created. Also, this message gets displayed in console:
"No Preferences found". If we run smc again and again, the same message appears.
All configurations and saved games get lost after quitting smc.

Expected Results:  
A preferences file should be created.

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r8 ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r8 ppc 7447A, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.90.0.3-r5
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_IE.UTF-8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="ppc X alsa altivec apm artworkextra bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr cups
dbus dga dhcp dvd eds encode esd foomaticdb gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
hal howl jikes jpeg mad mikmod mozsvg mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc network new-login nls
nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pic png ppds samba sdl ssl theora
truetype unicode usb vorbis xml2 xvid userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-08-27 20:17:32 UTC]

Yes it does, it just doesn't save the preferences.  You can edit
~/.smclone/Preferences.ini to keep your preferences though.

[Comment 2 Henrique Rodrigues 2005-08-27 20:40:07 UTC]

Based on what you said, here's what i've came up with: preferences.ini doesn't
get created if the .smclone folder doesn't exist. I had no .smclone folder, so
no preferences.ini file; after creating the .smclone folder, the preferences.ini
file is created automatically upon running smc. So I guess the only thing to do
is to create .smclone also automatically if it doesn't exist.

I also noted that all the preferences are saved this way, including saved games,
although the save slot always has the description "Free Save", no matter what we
put there. But that's another (probably upstream) bug.

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-08-27 22:05:20 UTC]

$ rm -rf ~/.smclone
$ smclone
No Preferences found ...
No joysticks available.
Super Mario Clone FX exit
$ ls ~/.smclone
Preferences.ini

There are definitely some rough edges to smclone but it's still in development.
 I'm marking this one INVALID since it *does* create the preferences file.  The
other bugs would be marked UPSTREAM.

[Comment 4 Henrique Rodrigues 2005-09-01 13:00:17 UTC]

This is mighty strange. After emerging smclone, I don't have a "smclone"
command, but instead I have a "smc". And it doesn't show any "Super Mario Clone
FX", either, but "Secret Maryo Chronicles".

$ smc --version
Secret Maryo Chronicles 0.97

I thought it could be something related to the source files, but I've deleted
them and even changed the download mirror, but the result was the same. I guess
it's best to leave this bug marked as INVALID, since I seem to be the only one
experiencing this.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-09-01 17:20:58 UTC]

everything you described is how it should be

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-09-01 17:31:46 UTC]

I'm going to reopen this because I tested with the wrong version and I think it
should create ~/.smclone if it doesn't exist.

[Comment 7 Tristan Heaven (RETIRED) 2006-11-20 14:20:46 UTC]

Fixed in 0.99.3.