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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:59 pm    Post subject: [solved] dosbox wont start Reply with quote

as my user
Code:
$ dosbox
bash: dosbox: command not found
$ /usr/games/bin/dosbox
bash: /usr/games/bin/dosbox: Permission denied
$ groups
wheel audio video users pulse-access wireshark myusergroup


as root
Code:
# gpasswd -a myusername games
Adding user myusername to group games
# which dosbox
which: no dosbox in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
# find / -name dosbox
/usr/portage/games-emulation/dosbox
/usr/games/bin/dosbox
# ls -l /usr/games/bin/dosbox
-rwxr-x--- 1 root games 2462264 Oct 10 19:45 /usr/games/bin/dosbox


and i did logout and login after adding myusername to the group games.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you log out and then log back in after adding yourself to the games group?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes i did.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you play other games whose binaries belong to the games group?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for some reason the game folders in my fs belong to group id 20 and not to games.
this group does not exist. i did chown -R root:games the problematic folders now everything works fine. no idea how this could happen.
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