Installing the RPM “crawl-sdl-0.9.1-1.2.x86_64.rpm” goes fine, either from the repositories, or by download/run. Either way, when starting the game, its window appears immediately, and about a second later up pops an image of a gnome (elf?, goblin?) and a large, steaming, blue-green pot (plus other details). The window simply closes right after the image appears.
(I’m running a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200, but I can’t believe this can be the cause)
Does anyone have any experience with this problem?
Can anyone tell me how to gather information on the crash?
What helps is starting the game from a terminal window. Open one, type
crawl-sdl
and you’ll see
DB directory "/var/games/crawl/saves/db/" does not exist and I can't create it.
This is because you run the program as a normal user, which has no permission to create a folder ‘db’ in /var/games/crawl/saves/. Let’s find out:
ls -ld /var/games/crawl/saves
This returns:
drwxrwxr-x 6 games games 4096 Sep 19 23:55 saves
which means, that the “saves” folder is writable only to user games and …the group games. We’re there: you need to make yourself a member of the “games” group.
Start Yast - User and Group management and make yourself a member of the “games” group. After doing so on my laptop, I now get:
See you soon, knurpht!
after exiting the game. No other messages.
Moral of the whole story: if an app or a game does not work, start it from a terminal window. That will tell you what to do or look for.
