[SOLVED] Unable to execute shell script from panel launcher

Quakeboy02 · 11-08-2023, 05:49 PM

I have had a panel launcher to launch a shell script that launches quake3 with specific parms for many years. For some reason, this no longer works, though the script itself still works if exec'd from a terminal. I've tried everything except putting the command from the script in the panel launcher's command. What changed?

Contents of shell script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/games/quake3 +set fs_game "osp" +g_warmup "10" +g_gametype "1"  +map pro-q3tourney4 +addbot sarge 4.0 +fraglimit "0" +timelimit "10" --display:=0.0

I do get a popup with a complaint:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/games/game-data-packager-runtime/gdp_launcher_base.py", line 307, in main
    self.exec_game()
  File "/usr/games/quake3", line 225, in exec_game
    super(FullLauncher, self).exec_game()
  File "/usr/share/games/game-data-packager-runtime/gdp_launcher_base.py", line 437, in exec_game
    self.flush()
  File "/usr/share/games/game-data-packager-runtime/gdp_launcher_base.py", line 316, in flush
    f.flush()
OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

jailbait · 11-08-2023, 06:18 PM

This might be a permissions issue. Make sure that everything in the chain of commands is executable.

Quakeboy02 · 11-08-2023, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jailbait

This might be a permissions issue. Make sure that everything in the chain of commands is executable.

Just for grins, I changed the launcher "Type:" from "Application" to "Application in Terminal", and it's now working again. I'm not a python programmer, but my daughter has been relating some aggravating python version compatibility issues she's had recently, so maybe they've done something to python. If that's the case, there will probably be more of this type of thing coming.