xshm support missing

[Michael Haupt]

Binary package hint: squeak-vm

The VM in this package seems to be compiled without support for the X shared memory extension. I suggest to change this, as it affects at least one package (etoys). The corresponding bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etoys/+bug/301190 - its effect is that Etoys cannot be started out of the box.

[Steve Dee (mrdomino)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 8.10. Etoys fails to start with default configuration.

[kni (kni)]

Confirm, the same thing is with Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 5. Etoys fails to start, because X shared memory extension support missed in squeak-vm.

[Séverin Lemaignan (skadge)]

What can be done to solve this bug which affect the final release of Jaunty as well? since it seems unlikely that a recompiled version of squeak-vm is to be proposed within the Jaunty cycle (but I may be wrong?), I think we could at least offer a "patched" version of the etoys launch script, without the -xshm option, as proposed on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etoys/+bug/301190.

I see this issue as important: we have today a packaged application that can simply not be launched in Ubuntu without a workaround inaccessible for the main targets of the software: educators and children.

[Michael Haupt (mhaupt)]

Hi,

2009/5/18 Séverin Lemaignan <email address hidden>:
> What can be done to solve this bug which affect the final release of
> Jaunty as well? since it seems unlikely that a recompiled version of
> squeak-vm is to be proposed within the Jaunty cycle (but I may be
> wrong?),

I'm not sure; this would have to be dealt with by the squeak-vm maintainer(s).

> I think we could at least offer a "patched" version of the
> etoys launch script, without the -xshm option, as proposed on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etoys/+bug/301190.

Agree. As a workaround, this seems to be fine.

Best,

Michael

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

This is fixed in Lucid, and the workaround has been backported to previous releases. If you wish this to be fixed in an earlier release, please follow steps 1-3 of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure .