When connecting with doomlegacy to a server via tcp/ip the program exits instantly after conneting. The error message is "Failed to create file $$$.tmp". doomlegacy tries to create a temporary file under /usr/share/games/doom-data/. But only root has write permissions to this directory. This error doesn't happen in single player mode. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to a doomlegacy server via something like: llxdoom -connect 80.138.xx.xx -opengl -IWAD $HOME/wads/Doom2.wad Actual Results: doomlegacy connects to the server but then instantly exists with a error message saying that it failed to create file $$$.tmp. Expected Results: Able to play the game via internet with some friend. The fix is to make the dir /usr/share/games/doom-data/ writable by the user playing the game, i.e. to give the game group writer permission to doom-data.
Forgot to mention the version of the ebuild: $ qpkg -I -v doom games-fps/doomlegacy-1.42
Hmmmm, is this still a problem? I don't see the string "Failed to create" in the source.
Yes, this issue is still there. I dunno from where the error message comes from, maybe from some library? The workaround making /usr/share/games/doom-data writable for the game group still fixes the issue. It's probably a design error in the game. It should not write to this wad directory at all, but use some directory in the user's homedir instead. But it looks like doomlegacy is not maintained upstream anymore, thus I don't expect a fix.
Removed from the tree.
