Problems with emerging Games??

[Dalius]

Hey all,

I seem to have a problem when using portage to emerge games.

Two examples...when emerging ut2004-demo:

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echolon dale # emerge --usepkg ut2004-demo
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) games-fps/ut2004-demo-3120-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ut2004-lnx-demo-3120.run.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ut2004-demo-lnx-tts-pingpatch.tar.bz2
 * Adding user 'games-ded' to your system ...
 *  - Userid: 36
 *  - Shell: /bin/bash
 *  - Home: /usr/games
 * You must add games to the system first
 
!!! ERROR: games-fps/ut2004-demo-3120-r1 failed.
!!! Function enewuser, Line 575, Exitcode 0
!!! games is not a valid GID

And when emerging abuse_sdl:

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echolon dale # emerge --usepkg abuse_sdl
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) games-action/abuse_sdl-0.7.0-r2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) abuse_sdl-0.7.0.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) abuse_datafiles.tar.gz
 * Adding user 'games-ded' to your system ...
 *  - Userid: 36
 *  - Shell: /bin/bash
 *  - Home: /usr/games
 * You must add games to the system first
 
!!! ERROR: games-action/abuse_sdl-0.7.0-r2 failed.
!!! Function enewuser, Line 575, Exitcode 0
!!! games is not a valid GID

When I type groupadd games:

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echolon dale # groupadd games
groupadd: group games exists

I ran out of ideas, any help would be appreciated!

[Chewwit]

Are you emerging as Root? (Your post indicates dale as the start of the command line)

If not, and dale is a user, then you need to add dale to the group games. To do this see

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23378

just add games to the list ie

users,wheel,audio,games

Leaving any of the current groups your in out delets them from your user account causing all kinds of problems later on (usually no ability to su is the most obvious).

Hope this solves your problems

Chewwit

[steveb]

what is the output of:

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grep ^games /etc/group

cheers

SteveB

[Dalius]

@Chewwit: Yes, that is in root. Notice the # (usually, when not root, it's a $)

@steveb:

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dale@echolon dale> grep ^games /etc/group
games::35:

[steveb]

@Dalius: my looks like this (see the x?):

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games:x:35:

can you change the line and add the x? just use the command "vigr" to modify the group.


cheers

SteveB

[Dalius]

I changed my line to match yours yet I still get the problem

[steveb]

what do you get from:

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grep ^games /etc/passwd

cheers

SteveB

[Dalius]

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dale@echolon dale> grep ^games /etc/passwd
games:x:35:35:games:/usr/games:/bin/false

[steveb]

well... i have exactly the same one.

maybe you need to open an new bug at bugs.gentoo.org?


cheers

SteveB

[Dalius]

I'm about to do that...bah.
What category would I put this under?

[jwhobbs]

I got that same message today when emerging UT2004 demo. I noticed there was no directory /usr/games so I made one and gave the "games" group and "games" user permissions. It got past that error and is currently emerging.

[Dalius]

Strange...suddenly, it works... :S

[steveb]

Strange...suddenly, it works... :S

it was the x in the group file
it took the system just some time to pick that up.

cheers

SteveB

[rberry88]

I don't think its the x in the group line because here is my group line:

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root@pengy games-fps # grep ^games /etc/group
games:x:35:rberry88

and passwd:

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root@pengy games-fps # grep ^games /etc/passwd
games:x:35:35:games:/usr/games:/bin/false

and I still get the error that the original poster got when trying to emerge nwn and/or the UT demo.

rberry88

[rberry88]

I really, really want to play UT2004. Please help.

rberry88

[steveb]

I really, really want to play UT2004. Please help.

rberry88

okay. then post the EXACT error message you are getting.

cheers

SteveB

[rberry88]

Here is what I get when I do the "emerge":

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root@pengy rberry88 # emerge ut2004-demo/
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) games-fps/ut2004-demo-3120-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ut2004-lnx-demo-3120.run.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ut2004-demo-lnx-tts-pingpatch.tar.bz2
 * Adding user 'games-ded' to your system ...
 *  - Userid: 36
 *  - Shell: /bin/bash
 *  - Home: /usr/games
 * You must add games to the system first

!!! ERROR: games-fps/ut2004-demo-3120-r1 failed.
!!! Function enewuser, Line 575, Exitcode 0
!!! games is not a valid GID

root@pengy rberry88 #

rberry88

[qmic]

I have this problem with EVERY game. I cannot install any game. I have x in /etc/group.

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bash-2.05b# grep ^games /etc/passwd
games:x:1005:35::/home/games:/bin/bash
bash-2.05b# emerge senken
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) games-simulation/senken-0.2.6 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) senken-0.2.6.tar.gz
 * Adding user 'games-ded' to your system ...
 *  - Userid: 36
 *  - Shell: /bin/bash
 *  - Home: /usr/games
 * You must add games to the system first

!!! ERROR: games-simulation/senken-0.2.6 failed.
!!! Function enewuser, Line 575, Exitcode 0
!!! games is not a valid GID

[TUX2k]

A emerge snyc solved the problem on my machine.

[cram]

I've noticed that the system doesn't pick up on changes to groups sometimes, until you've re-logged in. What happens if you add the 'x', then open a new login shell and try to emerge the game from there?

[allucid]

this is how i fixed it (don't know if this is the "right" way to do this...):
add a user called "games-ded" with home directory of "/usr/games".

And then later on i think i changed ownership of /usr/games to games.
i.e. "chown -R games:games /usr/games" but i don't believe that is necessary?

[qmic]

Adding user and change directory permissions solved the problem - thanks.

[rberry88]

A simple "emerge sync" worked for me. UT2004demo is just plain cool!!

rberry88