[Vm-dev] [unix] Crash on OpenSuse 13.1

[David T. Lewis]

I tried Etoys To Go on my fancy new Ubuntu laptop. The Multimedia category
opens without problems, and the CameraPlugin is working. So possibly the
issue is specific to OpenSuSE 13.1.

Having said that, I notice also that Etoys is looking for /dev/dsp which
does not exist on my system. Possibly Ubuntu has been messing around
with the /dev naming conventions.

I can also confirm that the window manager on Ubuntu seems be be even more
screwed up than originally thought. We had a previous report from Scratch
(but applicable to all Squeak) of the return from full screen mode resulting
in a blank Squeak window. This applies to Etoys also, but even worse is the
effect of resizing the Etoys window. If I try to enlarge the Etoys window,
it evidently begins chatting with the window manager, ultimately resulting
in an Etoys window that shrinks to a thin vertical bar.

I strongly suspect that the problems lie on the Ubuntu side, but it certainly
would not be good for a child to try Etoys (or Scratch) on a new Ubuntu
system and find problems like this :-/

Dave


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 04:57:18PM +0100, karl ramberg wrote:
>  
> I think have added some more uses of the Scratch plugin in version 5.0.1
> But I doubt that would cause a crash.
> 
> Cheers,
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
> 
> >
> > First I've heard of it. And it sounds to be specific to the difference
> > between Etoys-To-Go 5.0 and 5.0.1, which seems odd. At least the changelog
> > doesn't reveal anything obvious:
> > http://etoys.squeak.org/svn/trunk/Etoys/NEWS.txt
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> > On 27.03.2014, at 16:17, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I will try to look at it as soon as I can, but maybe not until this
> > > weekend. Unfortunately I have not been able to get SuSE 13.1 to run on my
> > > HP PC (!!!) so I'm stuck with an older version of SuSE. Do you know if
> > > anyone has encountered the problem on other Linux platforms?
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >> Sounds like the camera plugin ...
> > >>
> > >> - Bert -
> > >>
> > >> Begin forwarded message:
> > >>
> > >>> From: "Esther Mietzsch (JIRA)" <tracker at squeakland.org>
> > >>> Subject: [etoys-notify] [JIRA] Created: (SQ-1202) Multimedia in Object
> > >>> Catalogue causes Etoys to crash
> > >>> Date: 27. M?rz 2014 09:29:51 MEZ
> > >>> To: etoys-notify at squeakland.org
> > >>> Reply-To: etoys-dev at squeakland.org
> > >>>
> > >>> Multimedia in Object Catalogue causes Etoys to crash
> > >>> ----------------------------------------------------
> > >>>
> > >>>                Key: SQ-1202
> > >>>                URL: http://tracker.immuexa.com/browse/SQ-1202
> > >>>            Project: squeakland
> > >>>         Issue Type: Bug
> > >>>         Components: etoys-linux
> > >>>           Reporter: Esther Mietzsch
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> In Etoys To Go 5.0.1 (Build 2409) on my OpenSuse 13.1 system, I select
> > >>> the Object Catalogue. When I press the "Multimedia" category, Etoys
> > >>> closes immediatedly. The shell message is:
> > >>> ./etoys.sh: Zeile 111:  4342 Abgebrochen             $WRAPPER "$VM"
> > >>> -plugins "$BIN" $VMOPTIONS "$IMAGE" "$DOCUMENT" $IMOPTIONS
> > >>> The same functions seems to work nicely in Etoys To Go 5.0 (Build 2406)
> > >>> on the same machine.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
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> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> >
> >
> >