Fallback theme for 'aisleriot' not loaded properly

[soutys]

When a configuration string (key) '/apps/aisleriot/cardstyle' is empty 'sol' application crashes with:

** (sol:5671): CRITICAL **: aisleriot_board_set_card_theme: assertion `card_theme != NULL && card_theme[0] != '\0'' failed
** (sol:5671): WARNING **: Theme not loaded yet; cannot set size!

The game have started but we dont see any cards :/
It happens sometimes when you play with themes, gdm or similar packages (install/uninstall/upgrade).
When we use the 'gconf' to set that key to 'foo' it displays:

** (sol:6396): WARNING **: Failed to load theme 'foo'; trying fallback theme 'bonded'

but now application starts and we see some cards. The right name is of course 'bonded' (or other - it depends on your '/usr/share/gnome-games-common/cards/' directory content)...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, which version of Ubuntu are you running? I've tried to reproduce this but it works fine in Hardy.

[soutys (soutys-deactivatedaccount)]

My Ubuntu is 7.10 (Gutsy upgraded a long time ago from Feisty)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

ok thanks, feel free to re open this report if you encounter the same issue with Hardy.

[soutys (soutys-deactivatedaccount)]

Well, I downloaded Hardy Heron Alpha4 .iso and tried to reproduce bug under Live CD session. So, here it is...

> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sol
>
> ** (sol:9025): CRITICAL **: aisleriot_board_set_card_theme: assertion `card_theme != NULL && card_theme[0]
> != '\0'' failed
>
> ** (sol:9025): WARNING **: Theme not loaded yet; cannot set size!
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

Full problem description with solution how to reproduce a bug and fix it:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=602327

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

May you post that here? AFAIK the forums aren't a bug tracker. thanks in advance.

[soutys (soutys-deactivatedaccount)]

Here's the solution to fix the problem with 'aisleriot':

    * open gconf (Configuration editor) and go to the '/apps/aisleriot/cardstyle' key/resource
    * my aisleriot uses 'bonded' theme so you can type this name firstly and re-run application
    * if there is still a problem try this:
          - open 'gnome-terminal'
          - type: 'locate gnome-games-common/cards'
          - you should see something like this:

> /usr/share/gnome-games-common/cards
> /usr/share/gnome-games-common/cards/bonded.svg
> ...
<< 'bonded' (without ext.) - this could be a missed theme... Fill an empty 'cardstyle' key/resource with this value.

  You will receive a bug if the key value will be empty string.
  For bad but NON-EMPTY key, 'aisleriot' CAN find a proper theme...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.