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Hello,<br>
<br>
gcompris freezes reproducibly for me on ubuntu; this is the stock
gcompris from the ubuntu packages, ubuntu 8.10.<br>
<br>
I've opened an ubuntu bug with a lot of details:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcompris/+bug/339996">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcompris/+bug/339996</a><br>
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To repeat them here:<br>
<p>In ubuntu 8.10 the game "computer/<wbr>mouse/erase" freezes for me.<br>
I'm using compiz, gcompris in full screen 800x600.</p>
<p>Playing this game it freezes relatively often: the GUI turns gray
(probably the compiz action for inactive windows). The mouse is still
colored and still moves. X is still responding (cube switching and all).<br>
I can switch to text terminal (ctrl alt f1) and killall gcompris and
all is OK (except i'm in 800x600).</p>
<p>I configured it to have french audio and text.</p>
<p>Running it from command line I see this line in the text output but
I'm not sure whether it's related to the problem:</p>
<p>(gcompris:12941): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_thread_join: assertion
`thread' failed<br>
</p>
<p> also sound stops working when it freezes.
</p>
<p>I ran gcompris in command-line with "-D" (debug). I'm attaching the
end of the log (i didn't redirect the output and the gnome terminal
only displays the latest lines).</p>
<p>maybe it's connected with pulseaudio... who knows.<br>
</p>
<p>I made a run without sound.
</p>
<p>gcompris -m<br>
-m, --mute run GCompris without sound.<br>
</p>
<p>No freeze when I run it without sound. I can reach level 3 of that
game while with sound it's impossible, it always freezes before that.</p>
<p>So it's related to the sound</p>
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<p>pasuspender gcompris<br>
=> freezes still</p>
<p>killlall pulseaudio; gcompris<br>
=> micro-freezes all the time: the application is very annoying to
use, very often "pauses" but then recovers. In the end, freezes anyway</p>
<p>So the only workaround that I have for now is running without sound.<br>
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<p> Any idea? You can find this debug log that I'm talking about in
the ubuntu bug:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23660844/gcompris-log.txt">http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23660844/gcompris-log.txt</a><br>
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<p> Otherwise I'm quite impressed by the activities possible through
gcompris. I didn't expect my almost 4 year old daughter would get a
hang of it so quickly!<br>
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<p>emmanuel<br>
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