games/jools does not run

Rainer Hurling rhurlin at gwdg.de
Sun Jan 4 09:23:30 UTC 2009


Today I installed games/jools on my recent 8.0-CURRENT. But it did not 
run. In xterm the following error message was shown.

----------------------------
Checking for playlist in /home/xxxxxx/.jools/music...
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/bin/jools", line 29, in <module>
     import jools
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jools/__init__.py", line 
40, in <module>
     from initialize import *
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jools/initialize.py", 
line 144, in <module>
     highScoreTitleFont = pygame.font.Font(None, 45)
RuntimeError: default font not found 'freesansbold.ttf'
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Searching the internet the error was described for other systems too. 
Obviously the game needs read access for all users to the mentioned font 
file:

#cd /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame
#ls -l freesansbold.ttf
-rwx------  1 root  wheel  - 98600  7 Jul 07:58:09 2008 freesansbold.ttf


Changing it with 'chmod a+r freesansbold.ttf' does the trick. Now jools 
plays like a charm. It is a nice little game.

Could the maintainer or someone else update the port, please?

Thank you very much,
Rainer




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