#12343 HIGH 13.1.0: Scratch cannot start on x86

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#12343: Scratch cannot start on x86
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           Reporter:  greenfeld         |       Owner:  dsd                              
               Type:  defect            |      Status:  assigned                         
           Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  13.1.0                           
          Component:  scratch-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  diagnose          |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:                    |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:                    |  
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Changes (by bert):

 * cc: piumarta at speakeasy.net, jmaloney at media.mit.edu (added)


Comment:

 Scratch not starting seems to have to do with it providing its own plugin
 path. Removing the "-plugins $PLUGINS_PATH" arguments in bin/scratch-
 activity makes it start, albeit with the empty window.

 Is it possible this Scratch activity version is not based on the latest
 GPL code from MIT? If so it may be incompatible with newer Squeak VMs.
 Some old primitive interfaces were removed from the VM. I'm going to
 attach the log file, it seems to me that "copyBits" is failing and that
 might be one of those primitives. Just a hunch though, not verified yet.

 Sound output doesn't work in Etoys either for me with that 4.10.2.2614-4.
 Tried on an XO-1 updated to 13.1.0-14.

 Looking at Etoys log file it seems it is using its OSS driver (it tries to
 use /dev/dsp).  Forcing it to use ALSA (by adding "-vm-sound-ALSA" to the
 VMOPTIONS in /usr/bin/etoys) makes the sound output work in Etoys.

 Curious. Maybe the sound driver selection logic changed when pulse support
 was added in 3.11?

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