[Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Oct 31 20:12:35 UTC 2009


Christine Wolfe wrote:
> I am using Squeak on a Vista PC. When I have Squeak open and switch to 
> another window, after about 2 minutes, Squeak crashes and brings up the 
> Emergency Evaluator.  The information in the evaluator dump doesn’t 
> reference any of my code but I realize it still could have been 
> something I was running that triggered it.  This happens when I have my 
> System browser open and it doesn’t matter whether or not I have any 
> morphs displayed in world.  I haven’t tried switching with the System 
> browser closed. Has anyone else had this trouble?  The error message at 
> the top of the Emergency Evaluator stack is:  “Error: a primitive has 
> failed.” 

Interesting. Do you get a SqueakDebug.log when this happens? Usually, 
the emergency evaluator pops up when there is an error inside the error 
handling but there is a chance that the SqueakDebug.log has already been 
written at this point. If you can find it, please send it.

Cheers,
   - Adnreas


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