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[Bug 653256] [NEW] Install will fail if /var/games/ does not exist

 

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gweled

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gweled 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 173kB of archives. After unpacking 598kB will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe gweled i386 0.8.repack-4 [173kB]
Fetched 173kB in 1s (142kB/s) 
Selecting previously deselected package gweled.
(Reading database ... 239083 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gweled (from .../gweled_0.8.repack-4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up gweled (0.8.repack-4) ...
touch: cannot touch `/var/games/gweled.Normal.scores': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gweled (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gweled
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up gweled (0.8.repack-4) ...
touch: cannot touch `/var/games/gweled.Normal.scores': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gweled (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gweled

** Affects: gweled (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: gweled (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Changed in: gweled (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: gweled (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: gweled (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #595590
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595590

** Also affects: gweled (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595590
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Install will fail if /var/games/ does not exist
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653256
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