Update broken

Blake McBride blake at integra-online.com
Mon Jun 23 18:00:43 UTC 2003



I can't get updates anymore.  I've tried it many times under
different machine load conditions and it doesn't make a
difference.  I get this error every time.

Blake McBride


At 09:46 AM 6/13/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've also seen this error yesterday and today but only sporadically...
> > usually it doesn't happen.
> >
> > - Doug Way
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 06:11 PM, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> >
> > > Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com wrote:
> > >> - take a 3.6 alpha image Build 5179 (newest) from the
> > >>   FTP server
> > >> - run update
> > >> - it crashed with NetNameResolver doesNotUnderstand:
> > >> #initializeNetworkIfFail:
> > >
> > > I think I saw this earlier. IIRC it is because some methods haven't
> > > been
> > > recompiled. Will check tomorrow. If noone else beats me to it.
> > >
> > > regards, Göran
>
>Ok, here is an analysis:
>
>- The update mechanism forks off the downloads in parallell, that is
>probably why it fails (for me) when trying to download update 5260
>(which is way back after 5255 - which is the culprit)
>- What happens is that 5255 removes the method #initializeNetworkIfFail:
>BUT 5257 is the update that actually removes the call to it in
>OldSocket! So... the parallell download process might - if you are
>unlucky - end up trying to perform a download in between these two
>updates being incorporated in the image.
>
>And then, since HTTPSocket class>>httpGetDocument:args:accept:request:
>calls "Socket initializeNetwork" this will in fact reference OldSocket
>(because the method has been changed while being run I presume, so it is
>still the old one - can be seen in the top of the menu in the debugger
>because it says "DoItwith:with:with:" instead of the proper method name.
>
>Result? Boom. But it seems rather harmless - I just killed off the
>notifiers and tried again. This time the new proper code will be used
>and then I got my last two missing updates.
>
>regards, Göran
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