This has been a problem with Cog on Ubuntu for a long time.

A work around is to always start Squeak with no sound:

   squeak -vm-sound-null my.image

Please let us know if you discover a better solution.


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:37 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Test on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)
>
> VM: http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2515/coglinux.tgz
> (18th Nov 2011)
> Image: http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3alpha/Squeak4.3gamma-11793.zip
> (actually a beta image)
>
> Test runner: about 500 tests run through then the image is closed and
> the command line shows
>
> dict-dev-1 at dictdev1:~/coglinux$ ./squeak
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> I/O possible
> dict-dev-1 at dictdev1:~/coglinux$
>
> --Hannes
>
> On 11/21/11, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, so there are two types of  freeze
>>
>> 1) feature freeze (after alpha, currently effective) and
>> 2) code freeze (after beta).
>>
>> So the image http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3alpha/Squeak4.3gamma-11793.zip
>> should be labeled http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3alpha/Squeak4.3beta-11793.zip
>>
>> Thank you Edgar for providing this image.
>>
>> --Hannes
>>
>> On 11/21/11, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21.11.2011, at 11:26, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/21/11 9:04 AM, "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3alpha/Squeak4.3gamma-11793.zip
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks. I was wondering why is it called gamma and not beta. For the
>>>>> release we should make sure that the changes file is as clean as
>>>>> possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Levente
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From old conventions , when a release is in freeze mode and not new
>>>>> features
>>>> could be in , it's called gamma and not beta IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> Edgar
>>>
>>>
>>> The convention is
>>>
>>> Alpha - still adding features
>>> (then feature freeze happens)
>>> Beta - feature-complete, but expect bugs
>>> (then code freeze happens)
>>> Gamma - release candidate
>>> (then release happens)
>>> Final - release
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>