Bug 25975

Summary:	XBoard tries to launch gnuchess and fails
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	GFV <phasmidae>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GFV 2003-08-05 12:15:01 UTC

Apparently Xboard (/usr/bin/xboard) tries to launch gnuchess, but
/usr/games/bin/ is not in the default path and so xboard fails.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type xboard
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
xboard shows a dialog saying "Error writing to chess program gnuchess on
localhost: gnuchess: Permission denied". Once you click OK, xboard closes


Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.rediris.es/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime slang spell
truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb readline arts bonobo svga tcltk
java guile postgres sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt
opengl cdr X gtk gnome alsa sse"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

Comment 1 GFV 2003-08-05 12:15:44 UTC

Obviously, gnuchess is on /usr/games/bin/gnuchess

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-08-05 13:24:22 UTC

add yourseelf to the games group and regen your environment

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-08-13 21:07:24 UTC

lack of user input + bug seems to be they havent added themselves to games group ...

ive gone ahead and updated the xboard ebuild to use games.eclass too, so if the user can run xboard, they should be able to run gnuchess