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crispus

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Registered: 2008-07-31

Posts: 54

Gridwars error.

So I grabbed gridwars from the AUR.  When I run it, it closes and I get:

appstub.linux signal handler 11

Any ideas?

edit:  it runs fine as root, so i have no idea.

Last edited by crispus (2008-08-08 19:19:21)

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drelyn86

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From: Indianapolis, IN

Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 77

Re: Gridwars error.

I had the same problem.

I'm not able to find any documentation on gridwars... so I'm not sure if it creates or reads from any dotfile configurations in the user's home folder... so AFAIK, the user needs to have write permission to "Config.txt" inside the /usr/share/games/gridwars directory. And I'm assuming that it also needs write permissions to the folder itself... this way, gridwars will be able to create the "hiscores.dat" file and the "errors.txt" file if it needs to.

So, once I did all that, I found the errors.txt file was telling me that gridwars would not run at the resolution specified in "Config.txt" (1024x768 is the default). I was running this on a netbook, which only has up to 1024x600.

Once I edited the appropriate lines in Config.txt, it started working.

I know this is an old thread, but I don't like finding unanswered Arch threads through Google, and I feel like it should be documented.
Maybe the PKGBUILD could be changed to modify the permissions in that directory.

Another idea would be to copy the /usr/share/games/gridwars directory somewhere to your home folder... but that seems a little bit dirtier.