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I bought an RPi 4 recently for my son to play GCompris and other educational games. My daughter has an exactly similar setup since before, which works well. When I install RPi OS and then GCompris I can start the game, but as soon as I click on a button anywhere in the game it hangs and won't proceed.

I am unsure on how to proceed to debug this issue. Does anyone recognize the issue I am having, or have an idea of what might be wrong?

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Reset to default
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apparently it has a bug.(likely to be a firmware issue with sound driver)

start it with the -m option to turn off sound

either from a command shell or click the menu option with right mouse button to go into edit mode for the entry and adjust properties, desktop entry and put a -m option at the end of the command (ensure you have a space before that -m !!)

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  • Yep, that works! A shame it doesn't work with sound though, any idea of when that might be fixed? Also odd that it works on the other RPi4 I have it installed on without the '-m' flag (still no sound though). Luckily I found it on Android, so they can play it with sound there until it gets fixed for the Pi. Thanks again!
    – user3207230
    Commented Jan 14, 2021 at 18:19
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Check if you have installed gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio package --- this other solved cases (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1516) and should allow you to play with the sounds.

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To successfully run ./gcrompris-qt.sh on my Raspberry Pi 400, I needed to do these commands first:

sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
sudo apt install libpulse-mainloop-glib0
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