Bug#859318: pyracerz: Games crashes with Permission denied when writing highscores

[Markus Koschany]

Am 02.04.2017 um 09:33 schrieb Andrej Mernik:
> Package: pyracerz
> Version: 0.2-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the game crashes when it tries to write the highscore file:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/games/pyracerz", line 280, in <module>
>     if __name__ == '__main__': main()
>   File "/usr/games/pyracerz", line 251, in main
>     challenge.Challenge(thePlayer)
>   File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/challenge.py", line 65, in __init__
>     chrono = chalRace.play()
>   File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/game.py", line 550, in play
>     self.computeScores(currentTrack)
>   File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/game.py", line 613, in computeScores
>     if misc.addHiScore(track, play) == 1:
>   File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/misc.py", line 185, in addHiScore
>     fwrite = file("/var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf", "w+")
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf'
> 
> 
> $ ls -al /var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 1208 apr  2 08:48 /var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf

Your user must be a member of group "games". I think the error handling
can be improved but otherwise this works as intended.

Regards,

Markus






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