falconseye-1.9.4a emerges fine, but completely fails to even run once installed. "Message was: [NetHack] No write permission to lock /var/games/falconseye/perm!" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge falconseye-1.9.4a 2. run "falconseye" as a user with games permissions # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-test11-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test11-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga ggi tcltk guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla 3dnow apache2 dedicated dga doc fbcon gstreamer gtk2 java md5sum mmx moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg offensive pda sse tiff unicode X509 -cups -ruby"
crap, i think i forgot to include the games perm prep func :(
yeah, i forgot this: chmod -R g+w ${D}/${GAMES_STATEDIR} at the end of src_install() to fix your install just do this: chmod -R g+w /var/games