Bug 108032 – broken pipe error running gnomame after upgrading xmame

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Al Dennis 2005-10-03 18:51:05 UTC]

I get a broken pipe error when I run gnomame. This worked great until I upgraded
to xmame 0.99_1. The window which normally shows a list of games now shows
empty. Here is the error when run from an xterm:
sh: line 1:  6152 Broken pipe     /usr/games/bin/xmame -verifyroms 2>/dev/null

I can run xmame -verifyroms manually and it seems to work (lots of output), so I
don't know what it's complaining about. Plus, gnomame is swallowing stderr
(2>/dev/null) and that isn't helping diagnose the problem! Any idea what is
wrong? Or a suggestion for a better xmame front-end? =) I tried re-emerging
gnomame, but that didn't change anything.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade xmame.
2. Wife tries to run gnomame.
3. Wife complains.
Actual Results:  
1. Wife complained.

Expected Results:  
Gnomame should have let my wife play Ms. PacMan.

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
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:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bindist
bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups curl dbus dga doc dvd dvdr eds emboss
encode fam firefox flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
guile hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses
nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt
quicktime readline rtc sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv
zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-10-04 13:48:49 UTC]

ug.  try gxmame instead.  Looks like gnomame hasn't been updated since 2002.
I should probably remove it from portage.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-10-04 14:26:38 UTC]

I agree.  If the package is starting to break due to upstream being dead and
there is a viable replacement, then it is a good candidate for masking and removal.

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2006-06-03 18:00:45 UTC]

gnomame has been removed from portage.