The patch that Carrie posted (post #10 above) worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04. I'm a novice Linux user, so most anyone should be able to apply her patch. Here is what I did.
1. Uninstalled Gnome-Games completely. 2. Downoaded gnome-games-3.6.1.tar.xz from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org. 3. Extracted the tar file to the /tmp directory. This extracted a diretory named "gnome-games-3.6.1" containing all of the files needed to install Gnome Games. 4. Navigated to the subdirectory named "glines", and then opened the subdirectory named "src". 5. Added the additonal lines of source code from Carrie's patch to the file named"glines.c". I added just the lines with a plus (+) sign in front of them. 6.Navigated back to the parent directory (gnome-games-3.6.1), and then ran the following commands to install Gnome Games. After the install completed, I had to reboot before I could see the games in Dashboard. ./configure make sudo make install -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-games in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995281 Title: glines segfault Status in GNOME Games: Confirmed Status in “gnome-games” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: New Status in “gnome-games” package in Debian: New Bug description: glines does not start from application menu. From a terminal, glines receives a Segment fault. It was working fine with Ubuntu 11.10 and crash after update to 12.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: glines 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun May 6 00:18:08 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) SourcePackage: gnome-games UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-03 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-games/+bug/995281/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
