Bug 39016 – In hack you can't save because the /var/games/hack is missing

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Pietro Montorfano 2004-01-22 03:19:38 UTC]

playing hack i've tried to save the game but it tells "Cannot open save file. (Continue or Quit)" because that dir is missing

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run hack
2. type S

Actual Results:  
the game tells you "Cannot open save file. (Continue or Quit)"

Expected Results:  
the game should quit and tells you "Be seeing you ..."

[Comment 1 Minati jean michel 2004-02-19 06:37:33 UTC]

I cannot reproduce the bug with nethack-3.4.3,

my emerge info :

bash-2.05b# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/local_portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86"

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-02-22 01:47:11 UTC]

he's refering to hack in games-misc/bsd-games-non-free, not nethack

this is a bug in portage, but i've added some code to work around it in the meantime

[Comment 3 Minati jean michel 2004-02-23 03:36:41 UTC]

oh ;)