Bug 64992 – games-fps/rtcw fails to create preferences in user's home directory after re-installing

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Greg Yasko 2004-09-22 10:07:41 UTC]

RTCW's config files got corrupted so I removed the ~/.wolf directory and unmerged the package. Upon remerging it doesn't create the ~/.wolf directory and settings files and I get the below message upon starting wolfsp:

Wolf 1.41 linux-i386 Dec  4 2002
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/ryasko/.wolf/main
/opt/rtcw/main/sp_pak3.pk3 (14 files)
/opt/rtcw/main/sp_pak2.pk3 (232 files)
/opt/rtcw/main/sp_pak1.pk3 (1342 files)
/opt/rtcw/main/pak0.pk3 (4775 files)
/opt/rtcw/main

----------------------
6363 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec language.cfg
couldn't exec wolfconfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
Bypassing CD checks

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rm -rf ~/.wolf
2. emerge unmerge rtcw
3. emerge rtcw & install the *.pk3 files
4. run wolfsp in the terminal

Actual Results:  
RTCW can't find it's local config files and won't run.


Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.27)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.27 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo
http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/
ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com
http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/
ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/
http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/
ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/source ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups doc dvd dvdr encode
esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imlib jikes
joystick jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nowin
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline scanner sdl
slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-09-22 10:18:25 UTC]

The ebuild does not create ~/.wolf, nor has it ever.  The application itself creates it when it is first run.  The messages about being unable to exec the config files is actually normal, as none of those files are required, but they are checked for by the application.