Re: hearse configuration problem
Actually, I tried purging nethack-common one time in the latest interation
and it asked if I wanted to remove nethack-console and hearse and I chose
to allow the additional files to be removed. The system hard drive is
probably questionable over here ata errors on boot up and random times
afterwards so maybe is connected to this problem. On Tue, 12 Jul 2011,
Bob Proulx wrote:
My installation order was to install nethack-console which brought in
nethack-common then I installed hearse. I will try installing hearse on
its own and allow dependencies to be installed and see what happens with
that installation next. After that, I install debian on a different drive
and go from there.
> Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Yes, I'm a member of the
games group. >
> I realize that you must have set yourself up as a member of the games
> group as part of your effort to fix the problem with the games. But
> normally people are not a member of the games group. Instead the
> normal configuration is that programs that need access to the games
> group are themselves set-gid to the games group. For example all of
> the nethack binaries will be set-gid enabling that program to access
> the protected game files.
>
> > Also at the time this error happened /var/games/nethack/bones did
> > exist and it had a bones file in it from the server.
>
> And by your report they existed with corrupted permissions which is
> what is creating your problems.
>
> > Something else I've learned and filed a bug on this one, nethack
> > does not do a proper purge when aptitude remove --purge
> > nethack-common gets run nor do nethack-console. I had the
> > nethackdir removed from my system but /etc/nethack and
> > /var/games/nethack and all of the startup scripts were left intact
> > after that purge command and that oughtn't have happened.
>
> Yes, I would consider that a bug too. But when I installed
> nethack-console, which pulled in nethack-common as a shared dependency
> among all of the different nethack variants, and then purged the same
> two I could not recreate the problem.
>
> Installed:
>
> # apt-get install nethack-console
> ...
> # ls /var/games
> bsdgames nethack
>
> And then removed:
>
> # apt-get purge nethack-common nethack-console
> ...
> # ls /var/games
> bsdgames
>
> Worked for me. So I don't think it is actually a bug in the package
> but rather something about your particular system. But I didn't have
> any saved games files either. It is likely that the purge won't
> remove the directory if it contains saved user files in it. That
> would be considered a feature because it is user data not program
> data.
>
> Perhaps you only purged nethack-console (or other frontend) and didn't
> purge nethack-common which actually held the files?
>
> Bob
>
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