On 9 February 2012 22:27, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote: > My new 1.4 image is behaving a *little* better than its predecessors, but > there is still a problem. It seems to happen after invoking Metacello loads, > even with the mirror. Odd behaviors include: > > (1) can't open debugger
seem to be you victim of http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5167&q=finalization&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Milestone%20Difficulty its indeed prevents debugger from starting in some cases > (2) can't open process browser > (3) intermittent flashing/alternating cursors in text editors. > > Whatever happens, it seems to be saved into the image as MC works, because > killing the image and reloading results in a hobbled system. > > At least with 1.4, I can sometimes break into a debugger, presumably because > something is busy in a tight loop. That might be a/the parser?? > > BTW, in an hour (max) of playing around, I've generated a 38 MB debug log - > too big to read :( There are mentions of a parser, but my grep creativity > has not allowed me to pull out any useful information. Perhaps I can start > over with a clean log, let it get into some trouble, and review the log at a > smaller size. > > Suggestions? > > Bill > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Schwab,Wilhelm K > [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] 1.4 - better from Jenkins > > One snag: I'm still getting strangely broken images (won't open process > browser or debugger) after trying to download some things. I have mirrored > squeak source, BUT, some things (SIXX, ODBC) don't appear to have working > configs, so I'm trying to grab the latest packages, and *that* might not be > mirrored. I might need to specify the mirror server in my code to make them > work. > > Still, I don't get how simply asking MC to download something will > permanently mar the image w/o my doing an explicit save. Does MC snapshot > before/during an attempted load? It seems very misguided that an innocent > attempt to load something can hobble an image?? > > One other crazy possibility: is killing a vm from the (Ubunutu) system > monitor somehow not sufficient to clear what is running? Dumb question? > Maybe, but I'm stumped. Any ideas? > > Bill > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of blake > [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] 1.4 - better from Jenkins > > I just downloaded the latest CogWin and Pharo 1.4 image and I got > "WARNING: Manufactured file handle detected!" at the bottom, and popup > full of startup errors. > > But! > > It's all actually very friendly! I can look through the errors and try > to figure out what caused them. It's way cleaner than the old style > mega-DNU-stacks. > > Nice work! > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I grabbed 1.4 and cog/unix from jenkins, dumped all the files in one >> directory, made a shell script to run the image using Cog, and all I can say >> is "wow." >> >> The usability problems I was having are gone. In particular, the context >> menus work. I loaded Migrate and set preferences, with a really nice >> appearance resulting. >> >> One question: why did ClassDescription>>package go away? That seems to be a >> really useful message. >> >> I'll try to build an image using the SqueakSource mirror. No promises, but >> 1.4 "suddenly" looks a LOT more polished than it did. Are the links on the >> Pharo page old, or did somebody just do a lot of work to make things better? >> >> Bill >> >> > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
