Nethack-QT doesn't start due to setuid/guid

Bug #1987956 reported by Craig
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nethack (Debian)
New
Unknown
nethack (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

(process:12905): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:11:47.856: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.

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The console nethack and x11 versions work fine, it's only the qt version that won't launch in kinetic devel. It works fine in jammy and debian testing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: nethack-qt 3.6.6-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.22.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 27 15:09:40 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-08-03 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Rolling Rhino Remix
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nethack
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Craig (enigma9o7) wrote :
description: updated
Craig (enigma9o7)
description: updated
description: updated
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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I can confirm I get the same error message when attempting to run nethack-qt on Ubuntu kinetic.

Changed in nethack (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: kinetic
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Eugenia L (eugenial) wrote :

I'm having the same problem. Both the snap and the deb files on the official servers don't work.

Changed in nethack (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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