Can't get Squeak Plugin to work under Linux

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri May 4 18:03:26 UTC 2001


Trying the Squeak image that's pointed to by Squeakland.org, and using the 
September plugin/vm from Bert, I can't run anything from Squeakland.

What happens is that at startup, it gets stuck in FileDirectory>>startUp.
It tries to verify existence of the file '' in /. Which recurses forever, or 
at least until it runs out of many megabytes of space:

Preferences startInUntrustedDirectory is true.
So it does DefaultDirectory assureExistance [sic].
DefaultDirectory is UnixFileDirectory on '/home/ned/.netscape/squeak/image'.
So it tries to see if the given directory (in this case 'image') is in the 
directoryNames of '/home/ned/.netscape/squeak'. However, directoryNames is 
empty, which causes this to recurse up to the root and never terminate 
(directoryNames always returns an empty Array).

This needs to be fixed. Is it the SecurityPlugin keeping directoryNames blank?

And the spelling of assureExistance should be fixed, because it looks 
embarrassing.

-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com





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