Nethack Problems

[Pobega]

I'm having problems with Nethack; I installed it, played it, and closed the terminal right away. Then I tried replaying the game, and I got an error:

NetHack, Copyright 1985-2003
By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.
See license for details.
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (9 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (8 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (7 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (6 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (5 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (4 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (3 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (2 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (1 retries left).
Waiting for access to /var/games/nethack/perm. (0 retries left).
I give up. Sorry.
Perhaps there is an old /var/games/nethack/perm_lock around?

I have no clue what to do, I've done everything I could think of with the perm and perm_lock files but to no avail. Any ideas?

[RomeReactor]

Check in the system monitor if it is still running (System-->Administration-->System Monitor)

[Pobega]

Nope, definitley not running. It isn't in the System Monitor, and "killall nethack" killed no processes.

[RomeReactor]

Did you try deleting the lock?

sudo rm /var/games/nethack/perm_lock

[Pobega]

Did you try deleting the lock?

sudo rm /var/games/nethack/perm_lockActually, that was my problem. Out of all the file manipulations I tried with perm and perm_lock, I'm surprised I didn't try that, thanks a lot!