Bug 21456

Summary:	gnubg (GNU Backgammon) doesn't start
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Albius Mari <kkfam>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dan, herman.viaene, lewyssmith, marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	6	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA6-32-OK MGA6-64-OK
Source RPM:	gnubg	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Albius Mari 2017-08-05 17:39:58 CEST

Description of problem:
GNU Backgammon (gnubg) seems to start but after few seconds the icon disappear and nothing happens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.05.000 (x86_64)

How reproducible:
double click on start menu. 

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2017-08-06 11:52:31 CEST

What's the output if you start gnubg from a terminal?

Marja Van Waes 2017-08-06 12:03:28 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Assignee: bugsquad => dan

Comment 2 Albius Mari 2017-08-06 13:11:25 CEST

No output, simply the terminal seems to freeze. I try with "ps" command to see live processes but I didn't find "gnubg".

Comment 3 Albius Mari 2017-08-06 13:12:27 CEST

Hi, just for information: under Mageia 5 (x_64) it was all ok.

Comment 4 Dan Fandrich 2017-09-29 00:35:28 CEST

Looks like some dependency changed and it ends up in a loop at startup. The new point release works, so I'll push that into testing.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 5 Dan Fandrich 2017-09-29 00:47:12 CEST

gnubg-1.05.002-1.mga6 is available in mga6 core/updates_testing. Suggested announcement:

gnubg was upgraded to fix a hang at program startup.

Shorter is better, non?

CC: (none) => dan
Assignee: dan => qa-bugs
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Severity: normal => major
Status: ASSIGNED => NEW

Comment 6 Herman Viaene 2017-10-01 10:27:26 CEST

MGA6-32 on Asus A6000VM MATE
No installation issues
at CLI:
$ gnubg 
GNU Backgammon 1.05.002  Sep 28 2017
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong.
Copyright (C) 2016 by Gary Wong and the AUTHORS; for details type `show version'.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show warranty'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show copying' for details.
(No game) set gui showids on
(No game) save settings
(No game) new match
(tester6) 24/23 13/9
(tester6) roll
I don't know the rules to play it any further, but it looks OK.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6-32-OK
CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 7 Lewis Smith 2017-10-03 10:18:14 CEST

Testing M6/64

BEFORE update: gnubg-1.05.000-3.mga6
Starting the program from the menu went nowhere; but left a process:
 $ ps -ax | grep gnubg
 13346 ?        R      0:19 gnubg --window-system-only
to kill.
From the command line, it hung.
 $ gnubg
 ^C
 $ ps -ax | grep gnubg          [no residual process]

AFTER update: gnubg-1.05.002-1.mga6
From the menu, the program starts fine.
Same from the console. Good update.

@Dan
I have invented an advisory from comment 5 and the update RPM link; please in the future list the SRPM(s) along with the package name(s).

Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_update
Whiteboard: MGA6-32-OK => MGA6-32-OK MGA6-64-OK
CC: (none) => lewyssmith, sysadmin-bugs

Comment 8 Mageia Robot 2017-10-05 22:09:35 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2017-0086.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED