ScummVM crashes when adding a game

larrykubiac · Post by **larrykubiac** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:03 pm

Hey everybody,

I've searched the web and the forum, but nobody seems to have a similar problem. I have an jailbroken iPod touch 8GB (1.1.4) and installed Community Sources as well as ScummVM. The app seems to run normally, but when I try to add a game (hitting "Add Game...", nvigating to /var/mobile/Media/scummvm, selecting a folder and hitting "Choose") the app crashes and I'm back on my homescreen.
I tried indy3, lure, monkey island and day of the tentakel (which all work with ScummVM on my PC).

I reinstalled the app over and over and searched for this issue, but nothing. Please help me. thx

larrykubiac · Post by **larrykubiac** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:07 pm

Unfortunatly nobody seems to have any idee. So can I post some logs or isn't there any logging at all in the app?

kottkrig · Post by **kottkrig** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:29 pm

I have nearly the same problem but I can't even see my games. I go to my games folder /var/mobile/media/scummvm/ where I keep the games. And it's empty. And when i press the 'choose' button in that "empty" folder ScummVM crashes. Any known solution for this?

Vinterstum · Post by **Vinterstum** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:22 pm

Hm... log output from ScummVM goes into a log file in /tmp, you could SSH into the ipod/iphone, start ScummVM, and see what the log says.

larrykubiac · Post by **larrykubiac** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:41 pm

/tmp/scummvm.log says:

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Using configuration file&#58; /var/mobile/Library/ScummVM/Preferences
browser returned a node that is not a directory&#58; '/var/mobile/Media/scummvm/tentakle/'!

bushwakko · Post by **bushwakko** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:11 pm

There seems to be something with a path, I intially had my stuff in /var/root/Media/scummvm too and it seemed empty for me. so I moved a game one folder down to test (I have had problems with long paths on my xbox earlier). and then I could see the folder (indy4). but when I entered it and chose it, it would quit again. so then I moved the game down to /var/root/indy4 and it worked. there is definitely something funky with either the iphones path stuff or scummvm's implementation of it.

Vinterstum · Post by **Vinterstum** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:48 pm

There might a permission problem with the directories/files. They need to be readable by the 'mobile' user. Do a 'chmod -R 755 /path/to/games' in an SSH shell.

bushwakko · Post by **bushwakko** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:29 pm

I actually did chmod -R a+rw * there earlier, no luck.

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:08 pm

bushwakko wrote:I actually did chmod -R a+rw * there earlier, no luck.

Basically you need "rx" to read dictionaries and "rwx" to read/write dictionaries. Plain "r" is not enough (same goes for "rw").

larrykubiac · Post by **larrykubiac** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:17 am

Yeah!!!
A

chmod -R 755

solved the problem.

Thanks a lot.