Bug 11025 - Simutrans won't start (Error: Cannot open 'font/prop.fnt')
Summary: Simutrans won't start (Error: Cannot open 'font/prop.fnt')
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Funda Wang
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA5TOO
Keywords: Triaged
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-08-17 16:00 CEST by Carolyn Rowse
Modified: 2022-03-16 17:05 CET (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: simutrans
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
error message for Simutrans with KDE and Xfce (53.05 KB, image/png)
2013-09-02 18:47 CEST, Carolyn Rowse
Details

Description Carolyn Rowse 2013-08-17 16:00:10 CEST
Description of problem:

I downloaded Simutrans to my alpha 1 installation, but when I tried to launch it from the main menu I got the following error message:

"Failed to change to directory '$HOME/.simutrans (No such file or directory)"


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


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install simutrans
2. Try to launch it from the main menu
3.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Carolyn Rowse 2013-08-17 16:00:28 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => 4alpha1

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-08-17 17:27:09 CEST
and if you create this folder ?

Source RPM: (none) => simutrans

Comment 2 Carolyn Rowse 2013-09-02 18:46:49 CEST
I tried to do that and got a message saying "file already exists", so I checked and it was there.

Before doing that, I also tried opening Simutrans in KDE and Xfce and with both of those I didn't get the "no such file or directory" message but I did get a different error message relating to fonts.  I'll attach a screenshot of that one.

Thanks.

Carolyn
Comment 3 Carolyn Rowse 2013-09-02 18:47:40 CEST
Created attachment 4312 [details]
error message for Simutrans with KDE and Xfce
Manuel Hiebel 2013-09-02 19:33:45 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => fundawang

Manuel Hiebel 2014-03-23 15:29:03 CET

Version: Cauldron => 4

Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:22:01 CEST
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Comment 5 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-21 16:12:20 CEST
This package has not been touched by its maintainer for years, so I guess the issue is still valid. I'll check this when I get the occasion.

Assignee: fundawang => rverschelde

Comment 6 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-21 23:42:27 CEST
I couldn't reproduce the issue in comment 0, but I get:

  Error: Cannot open 'font/prop.fnt'
  dr_os_open(SDL): SDL realized screen size width=704, height=560 (requested
  w=704, h=560)Error: No fonts found!

  Error: No fonts found!

So I'll hijack this bug report to handle this new issues; both issues indicate anyway that Simutrans is simply broken in Mageia, so it needs fixed.

Summary: Simutrans won't open in alpha 1 => Simutrans won't start (Error: Cannot open 'font/prop.fnt')
Whiteboard: 4alpha1 => MGA5TOO
Version: 4 => Cauldron

Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-21 23:42:40 CEST

Severity: normal => critical

Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-21 23:43:08 CEST

Severity: critical => major

Comment 7 Funda Wang 2015-09-22 05:10:41 CEST
I've updated the package in cauldron, and sync with archlinux package, it should work. pleae test.

CC: (none) => fundawang

Comment 8 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-22 09:00:57 CEST
Thanks, I'll test this tonight. It might be worth an update for Mageia 5 too if it works in Cauldron, as the Mageia 5 package is broken as per comment 6.

Assignee: rverschelde => fundawang

Comment 9 Doug Laidlaw 2016-02-07 10:11:32 CET
This is a regular on the Simutrans Web site.  It is not just a Mageia issue, but seems to happen with any installer.

What I did was download the tarball, and copy the file prop.fnt (it is in the tarball, (which is a further puzzle,) to .simutrans/font/ .

CC: (none) => laidlaws

Comment 10 sturmvogel 2022-03-16 17:05:48 CET
Not valid anymore in MGA8 with simutrans-121.0-1

Closing OLD.

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


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