Same GNOME: False high score notice

This screenshot shows the false congratulating message.

It's in Dutch, translations are:

'Gefeliciteerd' = 'Congratulations'
'Uw score zit bij de top 10' = 'Your score is in the top 10'

I can't reproduce this on Dapper with 1:2.14.1-0ubuntu2. Are you running Dapper too ?

Yes, running Dapper with all updates (as of yesterday).

I considered the possibility that this is a locale problem, but my mother tried it today in English and the problem was still there ('Congratulations! Your score has made the top ten.').

Are there relevant files that might give a clue whether or not this is a problem local to my mother's computer? I have not yet tried to reproduce it on my own computer because it takes some time to fill the highscores first...

Can't reproduce either.

Ok, I tried it and I can't reproduce it on my own computer either. Although I'm sure the problem exists on my mother's computer (see the screenshot I took there). I installed and maintain both systems, and I don't see any obvious configuration differences. My mother created most of the highscores under Breezy, so maybe that's where the problem is...

I will have a look at the highscore files. Any hints where to look?

So I had a look at /var/games/same-gnome.Small.scores on the computer with the problem:

4094 1146223647 Janny Vermaat
3976 1143716774 Janny Vermaat
3892 1144161002 Janny Vermaat
3834 1146580105 Janny Vermaat
3826 1139920615 Janny Vermaat
3802 1138970224 Janny Vermaat
3770 1142856452 Janny Vermaat
3756 1146070258 Janny Vermaat
3740 1140376532 Janny Vermaat
3738 1139584275 Janny Vermaat
.000000 1140376532 Janny Vermaat
3738.000000 1139584275 Janny Vermaat

The last two lines look suspicious ;)

Compare the same file on my own computer:

2632 1147958549 Martijn Vermaat
1739 1147958856 Martijn Vermaat
1447 1147958454 Martijn Vermaat
1433 1147958776 Martijn Vermaat
1300 1147958676 Martijn Vermaat
1182 1147958502 Martijn Vermaat
1180 1147958976 Martijn Vermaat
996 1147958593 Martijn Vermaat
601 1147958735 Martijn Vermaat
416 1147958915 Martijn Vermaat

I checked and indeed placing the first file on my machine introduces the bug on my machine.

Now my mother is certain the bug was introduced with the upgrade to Dapper I did some weeks ago. Are there other users with a Same GNOME highscore file that got corrupted after upgrading from Breezy to Dapper?

Sorry, forgot to add this. The highscore file for the 'medium' sized game has the same problem. That is, /var/games/same-gnome.Medium.scores looks like this:

2826 1147632471 Janny Vermaat
2300 1135165871 Janny Vermaat
2278 1135268901 Janny Vermaat
2139 1147698776 Janny Vermaat
2034 1135280560 Janny Vermaat
1944 1135262321 Janny Vermaat
1821 1135252639 Janny Vermaat
1658 1135177926 Janny Vermaat
1620 1135274661 Janny Vermaat
1582 1135262944 Janny Vermaat
.000000 1135162833 Janny Vermaat
1551.000000 1135261983 Janny Vermaat

This was fixed upstream, and a patch was applied to stable. We will be releasing 2.14.2.1 soon because of a bigger bug in aisleriot, and this fix will be included in it.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344548

(Technically, we were writing to a file that was open r/w, and not truncating it once we were finished with it.)

2.14.2.1 was uploaded to dapper-updates.