[Box-Admins] [Board] squeaksource.com is down - checking it now

[David T. Lewis]

I managed to expand the dialog window long enough to see the full error message, which is:

  "Error: DirectoryEntry cannot have variable sized instances"

Dave



On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 02:23:53PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> Attaching a screen shot of the image immediately after starting it on my local PC,
> and before it runs out of memory and crashes. I am hoping that the error dialog may
> provide some clue?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 02:12:24PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > CC the board list.
> > 
> > I don't think I know how to fix this one.
> > 
> > I have downloaded a copy of the squeaksource.5.image and can run it on my local PC,
> > but I have not been able to break out of the error that is running the image out
> > of memory.
> > 
> > The only clue I see is an open error dialog with "Error: DirectoryEntry cannot have varia"
> > as its label, but I cannot expand the dialog to see the rest of the error message or
> > the stack.
> > 
> > Complete wild guess here, but I know that we had an issue on source.squeak.org in
> > which we had to update Monticello in order to deal with the new double word and
> > half word class formats. Could it be that storing code with the new formats will
> > not work on the old image?
> > 
> > Help or advice appreciated. I do not know how to fix this and I may not be able
> > to dedicate a lot of time to figure it out :-(
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 01:33:20PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > > When I tried looking at http://squeaksource.com a short time ago, I got a 502 Bad Gateway.
> > > I tried connecting to the image via VNC, no luck, and the image is now down.
> > > 
> > > It looks like the image itself has grown in size by a factor of 10 in recent days or weeks,
> > > and is now failing with out of memory. I do not know the cause.
> > > 
> > > At this point, supervise is apparently unable to restart the image due to the out of
> > > memory condition.
> > > 
> > > I will try to download a copy of the image and see if I can get it to load locally on
> > > my PC.
> > > 
> > > Dave