Swell Foop game does not work

Thanks for the report, could you run the game from the command line and see if you get any errors there? thanks in advance.

actually i can reproduce this, clicking on the board doesn't do anything.

There's an upstream report here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624493; saying that this is affecting the nouveau driver from nvidia but i'm using an intel card thus the intel driver and having the same issue, already commented on the upstream report, thanks in advance.

I was using an Intel card as well. I will see what other information I can get when I have a chance. If I recall, I did not see any terminal output when running the program from the command line.

Same problem here, running an eeePC 1005 (Intel). This program was really buggy in 10.04, crashing frequently. I'm hoping we get a functional version for 10.10 since its predecessor (same-gnome) was one of my go-to games when I wanted to waste 5 minutes or less!

Here's the output when running from terminal:

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 1 must not be null for function: Conf.get_string

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 1 must not be null for function: Conf.get_integer

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 1 must not be null for function: Conf.get_integer

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 1 must not be null for function: Conf.get_boolean

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 2 must not be null for function: Scores.new

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 3 must not be null for function: Scores.new

** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 5 must not be null for function: Scores.new

I have these (when moving cursor)

** (seed:4053): WARNING **: Exception in closure (0x86a48f8) for signal handler (handler light_left). Line 43 in /usr/share/gnome-games/swell-foop/Board.js: TypeError Result of expression 'GLib.main_context_pending' [undefined] is not a function.

** (seed:4053): WARNING **: Exception in closure (0x86d4a70) for signal handler (handler light_entered). Line 43 in /usr/share/gnome-games/swell-foop/Board.js: TypeError Result of expression 'GLib.main_context_pending' [undefined] is not a function.

** (seed:4053): WARNING **: Exception in closure (0x86d4ac0) for signal handler (handler light_left). Line 43 in /usr/share/gnome-games/swell-foop/Board.js: TypeError Result of expression 'GLib.main_context_pending' [undefined] is not a function.

** (seed:4053): WARNING **: Exception in closure (0x86a5b40) for signal handler (handler light_entered). Line 43 in /usr/share/gnome-games/swell-foop/Board.js: TypeError Result of expression 'GLib.main_context_pending' [undefined] is not a function.

and when clicking

** (seed:4053): WARNING **: Exception in closure (0x8672af0) for signal handler (handler [anonymous]). Line 43 in /usr/share/gnome-games/swell-foop/Board.js: TypeError Result of expression 'GLib.main_context_pending' [undefined] is not a function.

I can confirm this bug for nibbles, swell foop, and lights off. (It's also a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games/+bug/572577)

My log outputs are nearly identical to what other people listed. I also have an Intel video card.

I have the same problem with swell foop. My error messages are similar to those already reported. I would like to add that if I maximize another program, and then maximize swell foop, the swell foop window is then blank. Also, if I change preferences and then close the preferences window, the space occupied by the preferences window is blank. This is on a Lenovo T43 with an Intel 915 graphics chip.

I think this commit fixes the bug:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/commit/?id=98b73ad020ba6e61f0a9243a938792cd94c337ed

#11 fixes the bug. I have made the changes and am providing the entire gnome game files for SwellFoop and Lightsoff. Simply remove the old directory and replace with the ones I provide...

 /usr/share/gnome-games/swell-foop
/user/share/gnome-games/lightsoff

 You'll need to run Nautilus as root to do this. To run as root, enter the following command in terminal...

gksudo "nautilus --browser %U"

Great! That fixed it for me. I trust we'll see this working out of the box in 11.04.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-games - 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu4

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gnome-games (1:2.32.1-0ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * debian/gnome-games-common.install.in
    - Fix multiarch related FTBFS
  * debian/rules
    - Fix multiarch related FTBFS

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * debian/control:
    - Add gir1.2-gnomegamessupport-1.0 package
  * debian/gir1.2-gnomegamessupport-1.0.install.in:
    - New package for GIR files
  * debian/rules:
    - Fix use of DEB_DH_FIXPERMS_ARGS_ALL
    - Use DEB_DH_GIREPOSITORY_ARGS_ALL to find gir file
  * debian/patches/00git_private_typelib.patch:
    - Install GI files into a private location
  * debian/patches/03_swell_foop.patch:
    - Fix Swell Foop (LP: #626016)
  * debian/patches/04_lightsoff.patch:
    - Fix Lights Off (LP: #633292)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:21:55 +1100

Arghh... I upgraded my netbook to 11.04 beta1 over the weekend and both programs simply segfault... I guess I'll check to see if there's a report open yet for 11.04.

....G'day, Just a quickie to say how grateful I am for everyones work on such a minor glitch.

For what it's worth... I too suffered from 'Lights Off' not even switching on...! I tried successfully editing the 'board.js' file, but then installed Sean Fitzpatricks patch.

I have an AMD 5770 video card.

The patch wasn't mine! I think it came from upstream and was posted here by Jonathan. Although, this may all be moot, since in 11.10 testing it looks like both swell-foop and lightsoff have been pulled from the gnome-games package - in fact they're gone from the repositories altogether. So perhaps these two ended up being more trouble than they're worth.