Alice Fedora Core 7

[Vovk]

I need alice for school, and i need linux because it's part of who I am :)

sooo....

I usually run Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty, but when i tried to run alice, i found that it would cause me to crash every 15 minutes or so (when it asks you to save)

to get around this, i'm trying to use Fedora Core 7 to run alice (since that is what it has been tested on the most)

right now, i am unable to start alice with the commands run alice, run_alice, run-alice, or just Alice or alice.

i've downloaded the tar.gz and extracted it to a folder in my home directory called alice. so far i've done this

cd /home/(myname)/alice/Alice/Required

and then tried all of the above commands... i've even navigated there myself with Konquerer and tried to open it by double clicking... it doesnt work.

what am i doing wrong?

[hgs]

When you tried to run it from the command line, what error messages did you get? Or are you saying that it did nothing and gave you a prompt back?

When it crashes on Ubuntu, (and I don't run Alice on Linux, so don't know) does it leave a core file, and can you see into that with a debugging tool? Does the crash leave anything useful in your terminal when you run it from a command line?

Have you access to any tools like truss that might give some clues as to where the failure(s) occur?

[Vovk]

running it from a command line in fedora will give me a text file, presumably commands to start alice but not commands that i can use in the command line.

when it crashed in ubuntu, i never had a chance to see an error message because it was a full system screen lock crash. This never happens to me (usually) unless i am doing something blatantly stupid (like running beryl and playing multiple windows games at the same time, on different desktops thru wine) or when running alice

[hgs]

Well, it is probably worth looking in the text file generated from the command line failure, and if you can't figure out what is going on, post it anyway. Someone more familiar with it than I am should be able to notice if it is incomplete, or something like that.

As for the crash, there should be a core file somewhere, or in your log directories (/var/log, /usr/spool/log, /var/adm/messages or similar) there should be a recent log file telling you what happened. How much information can be extracted from it is another matter. There may even be a core file in / from the Linux binary.

It is at times like this when you find out more about your operating system than you ever wanted to know...

[gfullmer]

I am having problems getting Alice to run.

My environment: Linux 2.6.22.5-76.fc7, KDE, java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-14.fc7

Error message:

attempting to register mp3 capability...
Registered succesfully
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.8rh)
at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.8rh)
at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.8rh)
at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.JAlice.main( JAlice.java:129)
Caused by: Traceback (innermost last):
File "/home/gfullmer/Download/Alice/Required/resources/Alice Style.py", line 461, in ?
File "/home/gfullmer/Download/Alice/Required/resources/common/ResourceTransfer.py", line 42, in ?
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.Model

...

Any ideas?

Glen

[gfullmer]

I got it to work but it required the installation of not only java but javac from Sun. I tried to just install Sun's JRE but it didn't work until I downloaded all of Sun's JDK and installed it according to instructions found at:

http://www.howtoforge.com/sun_java_se6sdk_netbeans_fedora7

I noticed it works about as well as Windows version, but noticed that the Tutorial hogs the machine's CPU.

Hope this helps,
Glen

[DrEntropy]

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Most helpful, Glen. Thank you!