Hi Matthew,
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:41:02 -0600, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >At Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:42:08 -0400, George Neuner wrote: >> Just upgraded to 6.0.1 from 5.3.4. I know it's a big leap and 6.1 is >> out already, but I tried 6.1 and quickly experienced several of those >> non-reproducible crashes I've been reading about in the lists. > >Do you mean Evgeny's report on August 1, or did you have something else >in mind? (I don't have the sense that there are widespread reports of >problems with v6.1, so I may be missing something.) I don't recall Evgeny's report offhand and I can't find it just now. I have seen a different reports of issues with 6.1 in different places. On Windows 7 I experienced hanging with 64-bit 6.1 - completely unresponsive, 0% CPU. This happened numerous times doing different things: running package manager, editing, even just adjusting preferences. It seemed to be a GUI issue as raco worked from the command line. I had so much trouble with it that I didn't try very much. I uninstalled/reinstalled with fresh downloads a couple of times before giving up. 32-bit 6.1 did not hang, but it took almost 40 minutes to install [more than twice as long as 64-bit] and was so slow doing anything that I was convinced it was broken. Again I tried uninstalling/reinstalling without anything changing significantly. Then I read about the internal changes and decided to fall back to 6.0.1 until everything shakes out. >If you have time to help and you can quickly provoke crashes --- even >if you're not sure what causes it --- that sounds promising for >debugging. I'll ask more about that off-list. I got your note. I'd like to help but right now I'm in the middle of something and don't have a lot of time to muck around with it. I do have VS2010 available, but Racket was hanging rather than crashing, so the debugger didn't activate. Unfortunately I didn't think to attach to the hung process and see what was happening before killing it. >> 6.0.1 is behaving itself, but installing new packages from PLaneT or >> migrating packages from the older version is taking HOURS ... >> virtually all of it spent processing .scrbl files. > >It's probably no surprise to hear that it worked ok on my machine >(about 1 minute) in a fresh v6.0.1 install. > >Can you say more about the ".scrbl" part? Is the process of installing >a Planet package rebuilding documentation for the entire installation? >Or is it getting stuck on just the documentation for the installed >packages plus the main page and search index? It's hard to tell exactly because I'm not very familiar with the package install process, but it does get stuck "--- building documentation ---" for long periods with no output from raco. It seems to spend an inordinate amount of time "processing" scrbl files that are included with the packages. I don't mean rendering them - raco shows that separately - but just "processing" them. It would be nice if raco could timestamp its output. I can try to capture a procmon trace of a simple install if that would be any help. Ususally I find traces have too much information 8-( George ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
