0003727: intermittent crashes on Intel Macs when using OpenAL

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0003727

[Croquet] Hedgehog

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always

05-26-06 21:23

06-21-06 00:03

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mpm

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mpm

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normal

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fixed

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resolved

Summary

0003727: intermittent crashes on Intel Macs when using OpenAL

Description

Croquet worlds with OpenAL sounds crash intermittently on Intel-flavored Macs, but work everywhere else. The crash seesm to be caused by a bug in the OpenAL libraries that Apple is currently shipping with MacOS. We are not the only ones seeing this problem, see http://www.idevgames.com/forum/showthread.php?p=114850 [^] for instance.

We need to look into compiling a fixed OpenAL library and using that while waiting for Apple to get its act together.

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(0005290 - 258 - 294 - 524 - 524 - 524 - 524) mpm 06-21-06 00:01	Problem fixed! A copy of the 3.8.12b5 VM for the Macintosh that includes an OpenAL framework compiled from the latest OpenAL development branch can be found at http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/Hedgehog/install/Squeak3.8.12beta5UwithOpenAL.zip [^]

(0005291 - 250 - 250 - 250 - 250 - 250 - 250) mpm 06-21-06 00:03	a new VM that looks in the application bundle for an OpenAL framework, and a compiled from the current development version of OpenAL fixed the problem. Maybe Apple will update the OpenAL they include with MacOS at some point... meanwhile, this works.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
05-26-06 21:23	mpm	New Issue
05-26-06 21:25	mpm	Category	Any => Hedgehog
06-21-06 00:01	mpm	Note Added: 0005290
06-21-06 00:03	mpm	Status	new => resolved
06-21-06 00:03	mpm	Resolution	open => fixed
06-21-06 00:03	mpm	Assigned To	=> mpm
06-21-06 00:03	mpm	Note Added: 0005291

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