I have a fresh install of Gentoo 1.4 RC4 on an Athlon system. I create a new user and add him to the games group. I emerge nethack as root and run nethack as the test user in the games group. Invariably, Nethack always gives an error message at startup that it can't load /home/testuser/.nethackrc even though I created the file and even made the .nethackrc file world readable! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge nethack 2. create a test user (e.g., testuser) and assign them to the games group 3. copy /usr/share/games/nethack/dot.nethackrc to /home/testuser/.nethackrc 4. run nethack 5. Nethack complains that it can't open /home/testuser/.nethackrc Actual Results: An error message is printed to the console as stated above. Expected Results: The .nethackrc file should be loaded and its options should become effective. To keep from merging all the X and KDE/Qt stuff, I specified USE="-X -qt" prior to emerging nethack. Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/ kde/3/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 apm gpm libg++ motif nls gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd pam 3dnow acpi arts avi cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd encode freetds gif gphoto2 imlib java jpeg lcms libwww mikmod mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime scanner sdl slp spell ssl svga tiff truetype usb wmf X xinerama xml2 xmms xv gtk kde -gnome alsa zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
ok, i removed the setuid bit so it should work now http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-games/nethack/nethack-3.4.1.ebuild.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7
fixed now ...
