Our CS1 class with about 150 students uses Alice/Netbeans for some labs. We give students a VM with Lubuntu, Java, Alice, and NetBeans installed. A trivial program (
http://cs46labs.bitbucket.org/cs46a/lab1/hello.zip) crashes for many students (but not for the instructors). I attach the error log.
The head of the stack trace is:
C [libc.so.6+0x3a94b] strtof_l+0xaab
j edu.cmu.cs.dennisc.nebulous.NebulousTexture.setup( Ljavax/media/opengl/GL
V+0
j edu.cmu.cs.dennisc.nebulous.NebulousTexture.doSetu p(Ljavax/media/opengl/GL
V+31
...
Any ideas what might cause this, or how we might get the students to do their lab work?
Thanks,
Cay