Comment # 20 on bug 1175487 from Togan Muftuoglu

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #18)
> To check the membership a simple call of the program id(1) should show all
> groups which the user is part of.


uid=1000(toganm) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),494(wheel),497(mail)

plus getent groups says 

users:x:100:games

Unless I understand differently all users are member of the games group so it
is not necessary for an user to be specifically member of the games group as it
should be inherited.



> > 
> > I am not running it via systemd or via daemon option in the startup but
> > rather through the init.el by using the server package
> >
> >  (add-hook 'after-init-hook
> >            (lambda ()
> >              (require 'server)
> >              (unless (server-running-p)
> >                (server-start))))
> 
> It seems that this has the same result ;)
> 
> The question rises: if you've restarted the emacs server process, does the
> failure with the fresh emacs server process happens again?

Mind you emacs is called via emacs-gtk
So here is what I did started with my current configuration which per above
elisp starts the server process. 

(server-mode) which restarts the server there is no warning 

To test further I started emacs without the server enabled this time calling
with "/usr/bin/emacs" and plain simple "emacs" No error regarding permissions
on '/var/games' 

started server I tried (server-mode) (server-start) options to see if there is
any difference none whatsoever there is no messager regarding permissions.

So I tried installing a package via the package menu 

Package refresh done
Packages to install: 1 (company-fuzzy-20200712.49).  Proceed? (y or n) y
Operation [ Install 1 ] started
Saving file /home/toganm/.emacs.d/personal/emacs-sane-custom-settings.el...
Wrote /home/toganm/.emacs.d/personal/emacs-sane-custom-settings.el
Contacting host: melpa.org:443 [2 times]
  INFO     Scraping files for company-fuzzy-autoloads.el... 
Generating autoloads for company-fuzzy.el...done
  INFO     Scraping files for company-fuzzy-autoloads.el...done
Wrote
/home/toganm/.emacs.d/elpa-27.1/company-fuzzy-20200712.49/company-fuzzy-autoloads.el
[2 times]
Loading async...done
Operation [ Install 1 ] finished
error in process sentinel: async-handle-result: End of file during parsing
error in process sentinel: End of file during parsing

So with calling emacs with or without server-mode or restarting the server
process does not produce permission error but, use of async package is broken

Just to be sure started this time with emacs-gtk yes permission error is there
howevere using async package works flawlessly.

Enabling (server-mode) does not produce permission errors.

So hope this helps you to figure out what is going on