Public bug reported:
This is a right pain. For some reason (heh :-) both my kids love
NetHack, but *boy* do they go ballistic when they click the icon and
nothing happens. Investigation shows that it's moaning about
/var/games/nethack/perm being locked, but it provides no facility (that
I can see) to remove the lock.
The user that they are running at *can't* remove the lock, but the whole
thing smacks of crappy design. There's a bug somewhere if the file
needs to be locked in that way without any way to override it when
$WHATEVER happens that they do. I've quizzed themabout how it happens
and it doesn't seem like they're doing anything particularly wierd.
They just get killed, go through their possessions, and the window
closes - but then they can't start the next game in the addiction!!!
I'd script something around it for myself, but it seems likely it must
also be a complete pain for $JOEPARENT who could not do that. At the
very least it would be nice if the lock file could be cleaned out on
boot, so that the three-finger-salution could work in such cases.
Of course a fix so the lock couldn't get left lying around would be even
better :-)
Thanks,
Andrew McMillan.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nethack-qt 3.4.3-12ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 30 18:09:47 2010
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nethack
** Affects: nethack (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid
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NetHack QT leaves /var/games/nethack/perm_lock around
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600087
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