Yesterday, for obvious reason I decided to emerge some games through the night, those games were: Enemy Territory, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Tremulous and Frozen Bubble. Today I not only found that none of them were in my Games menu in Gnome but I also couldn't run them as a user so when I try to start them from a terminal they are not found even if I am root. I have to type the full path of /usr/games/bin/<game> and be root for them to get them to actually start. Is this a case of being installed in the wrong place (unlikely), a permissions problem (likely) or a large glitch in the way games are installed (possibly) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge various games 2. look in menu, try to start from terminal, try to start from terminal and as as root 3. Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: The Game is in the Games menu. The Game's command starts it when it is typed in a terminal as a user The Game's command starts it when it is typed in a terminal as root The Game's command starts it when the complete path is given as a user my user: george:x:1000:1000::/home/george:/bin/bash leviathon bin # groups george wheel audio cdrom video usb users portage games I have also tried chamod'ing them just in case it was that: leviathon bin # ls -al /usr/games/bin/ total 153784 drwxrwxr-- 2 777 games 4096 Aug 10 06:00 . drwxr-xr-x 5 games root 4096 Aug 10 05:32 .. -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 2950454 Jul 2 06:14 d1x-rebirth -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 271 Aug 10 05:48 et -rwxrwxrwx 1 777 games 274110 Aug 10 00:18 frozen-bubble -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 2166 Aug 10 00:18 frozen-bubble-editor -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 7718469 Jul 2 06:14 lincity-ng lrwxrwxrwx 1 root games 10 Aug 10 06:00 nexuiz -> nexuiz-glx -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 5799967 Aug 10 05:59 nexuiz-glx -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 17971596 Aug 9 23:35 pingus -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 266 Aug 10 05:32 sauerbraten-client -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 198 Aug 10 05:32 sauerbraten-master -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 257 Aug 10 05:32 sauerbraten-server -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 2733391 Aug 10 05:33 tremulous -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 119076264 Aug 10 00:12 wesnoth -rwxrwxr-x 1 777 games 713173 Jul 2 05:17 xlincity emerge --info: Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 9999 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 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You obviously didn't read the emerge output all these games were prnting into the console after emerge of those packages were finished: Remember, in order to play games, you have to be in the games group. That's also the reason none of these games appear in your menu. Type gpasswd -a yourusername games and relogin with your user for being able to play these games.
(In reply to comment #1) > Type > > gpasswd -a yourusername games > This must be done as root of course.
Again, ss I put in the bug report above: leviathon bin # groups george wheel audio cdrom video usb users portage games It's just before where I list the contents of /usr/games/bin
(In reply to comment #3) > Again, ss I put in the bug report above: > > leviathon bin # groups george > wheel audio cdrom video usb users portage games > > It's just before where I list the contents of /usr/games/bin > Sorry, didn't see that in the first place. When you simply run id as user in an open shell in your gnome session, does group games appear in the list of groups?
It does: george@leviathon ~ $ id uid=1000(george) gid=1000(george) groups=35(games),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),1000(george) It's really weird this, i've done and tried everything I can to sort this out because everything seems like user error but I can't see what is wrong. The other weird thing is none of the games appearing in the games menu. I could understand if 1 or 2 didn't appear but all...?
Tried relogging to your shell (and desktop) after adding yourself to the games group?
Cheers Samuli, I had a fault with Server 2008R2 in virtualbox and had to restart and afterwards all the programs are where they should be in the menu and they can be started. Sorry about this, it's the first time i've needed to log in/out to be able to run commands.
