Troubleshooting

[roustk]

This is a known bug as of Nov 13 2006:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2006/Nov/msg00618.html

MacOS APIs were reported to be immune to this, so they could be used as a workaround.

Many thanks for finding that.

There will almost certainly be license issues, and we can't be sure that it actually fixes the problem, but it is fairly easy to get my uid and username out of the SystemConfiguration framework. I've uploaded sample code to trac.

Kevin

[Lebannen]

I've done some more testing and have a build which may fix the problem, based on Kevin / roustk's work.

ElectricPaladin, is there any chance that you - or anyone else suffering from the same problem - could verify two things:
1) That you still suffer problems with the recently-released 3.0.9b build ( http://rephial.org/downloads/3.0/angband-3.0.9b-osx.dmg )
2) Whether or not a tweaked 3.0.9b fixes the problem: http://beent.je/Angband-3.0.9b-osx-uidtest.dmg .

There's some question as to whether there'll still be problems with the Preferences file, or whether that will be immune to this bug, system-handled as it is... fingers crossed.

[takkaria]

I've done some more testing and have a build which may fix the problem, based on Kevin / roustk's work.

ElectricPaladin, is there any chance that you - or anyone else suffering from the same problem - could verify two things:
1) That you still suffer problems with the recently-released 3.0.9b build ( http://rephial.org/downloads/3.0/angband-3.0.9b-osx.dmg )
2) Whether or not a tweaked 3.0.9b fixes the problem: http://beent.je/Angband-3.0.9b-osx-uidtest.dmg .

There's some question as to whether there'll still be problems with the Preferences file, or whether that will be immune to this bug, system-handled as it is... fingers crossed.

I don't suppose anyone's tried this? I'd quite like to make sure this problem doesn't crop up in 3.1.0 if at all possible.

[Lebannen]

I don't suppose anyone's tried this? I'd quite like to make sure this problem doesn't crop up in 3.1.0 if at all possible.

I've contacted ElectricPaladin directly, who is currently without the mac this was encountered on, so he can't test it in the near future.

I've done some testing by running the application as the root user, which does then identify the console user correctly, and as the preferences are handled by another Apple API we *should* be good.

[slinberg]

Just wanted to say that I had the same problem, found this thread, downloaded Lebannen's version, and it did fix it.

Thanks!

[Lebannen]

Awesome - thanks for reporting back with that, slinberg