[SOLVED] Lubuntu

markyd · 12-07-2011, 02:59 AM

Hello, I have built a Lubuntu 11.10 VM (Virtual Box) to play games in on my work laptop and after a bit of searching I decided the Alien Arena would be a good place to start as it had the single player mode. I failed miserably to get playdeb to work so simply got the version from the repository, loaded up fine no complaints and I excitedidly plressed the icon in the games menu ..... nothing, nada niet :-(

Surfed the forums for a bit and found this was a reasonably common issue but no real resolution was forthcoming. Anyone got any ideas?

MarkyD

adamk75 · 12-07-2011, 04:20 AM

Does it work if you try to start it from a terminal? Did you install the guest additions for virtualbox? Without them, you won't have 3D acceleration. Even with them installed, 3D acceleration may not be good enough for many games.

Adam

markyd · 12-07-2011, 05:00 AM

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I have installed guest additions.

See below for the results of running alien-arena in a terminal both as user and root, not happy :-(

MarkyD

loopy@loopy:~$ alien-arena
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/data1': Permission denied
using /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/arena for writing
Could not exec default.cfg
Could not exec config.cfg
Console initialized.
--------- [Loading Renderer] ---------
Master server at 69.136.224.226:27900
Sending shutdown to 69.136.224.226:27900
recursive shutdown
Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx
loopy@loopy:~$ sudo su
root@loopy:/home/loopy# alien-arena
using /root/.config/alien-arena/arena for writing
Created directory /root/.config/alien-arena/arena
Could not exec default.cfg
Could not exec config.cfg
Console initialized.
--------- [Loading Renderer] ---------
Master server at 69.136.224.226:27900
Sending shutdown to 69.136.224.226:27900
recursive shutdown
Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx
root@loopy:/home/loopy#

adamk75 · 12-07-2011, 05:35 AM

First, don't run it as root. Second, what is the output of

Code:

ls -la /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/data1

markyd · 12-07-2011, 05:48 AM

loopy@loopy:~$ ls -la /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/data1
ls: cannot access /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/data1: No such file or directory
loopy@loopy:~$

MarkyD

adamk75 · 12-07-2011, 05:49 AM

How about:

Code:

ls -la /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/

markyd · 12-07-2011, 06:11 AM

Well that certainly generated some output :-)

loopy@loopy:~$ ls -la /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2011-12-07 10:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2011-12-07 10:56 arena
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3079 2010-11-09 04:17 default.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 env
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 gfx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2011-12-06 19:53 levelshots
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 maps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1996 2011-03-01 20:38 maps.lst
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:50 models
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 particles
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 12288 2011-12-06 19:53 pics
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:46 players
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 sound
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:53 textures
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2011-12-06 19:46 vehicles
loopy@loopy:~$

adamk75 · 12-07-2011, 06:14 AM

See how everything there is owned by root? You ran alien-arena with sudo previously, didn't you? You'll have to change the ownership of the entire /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/ directory by running something like:

Code:

chown loopy:loopy /home/loopy/.config/alien-arena/

Also, please use [code][/code] tags around the output of the commands you run. It will make it easier to read on here.

markyd · 12-07-2011, 07:07 AM

looks like the folder in question is mapped somewhere else:

Code:

oopy@loopy:~/.config$ ls -la
total 60
drwx------ 12 loopy loopy 4096 2011-12-06 20:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 loopy loopy 4096 2011-12-07 10:49 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 loopy loopy   34 2011-12-06 20:02 alien-arena -> /usr/share/games/alien-arena/data1
drwx------  4 loopy loopy 4096 2011-12-06 19:37 chromium
drwx------  2 loopy loopy 4096 2011-12-07 06:42 dconf

(output truncated)

So I navigated to the real folder

Code:

loopy@loopy:/usr/share/games$ sudo chown -hR loopy alien-arena
loopy@loopy:/usr/share/games$ ls -a
.  ..  alien-arena
loopy@loopy:/usr/share/games$ ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  root  4096 2011-12-06 19:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 224 root  root 12288 2011-12-06 19:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 loopy root  4096 2011-12-06 19:53 alien-arena

I did drill down to ensure the ownership had cascaded down corectlym so time for a test run!

Hey ... guess what now works from the terminal and the menu, thanks for your help and patience. From my surfing about this has happened to quite a few people, is it because I installed via sunaptic which runs as root?

MarkyD

adamk75 · 12-07-2011, 07:09 AM

That's odd... Files under /usr/share/games really should be owned by root. So I'm not sure why the game initially tries to create a symlink essentially in /usr/share/games/alien-arena/ as your user when you first launch it.

Anyway, at least you got it working.