So which Mac VM is this?
Image: Squeak3.8gamma [latest update: #6662]

I see it fails in Array>>elementsForwardIdentityTo: which invokes  
become and we have altered become lately in the mac carbon vm to fix  
some crashes.

On Apr 29, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Brian Brown wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I've encountered some anomalous behavior between windows and Mac OS X  
> with regards to updating SM - using a fully updated 3.8 image on  
> windows, the "update map from net" works fine. On my Mac, a fully  
> updated 3.8 results in "A primitive has failed" after the "Reading a  
> Stream" progress indicator comes up.
>
> I tried SMSqueakMap default loadUpdates, and it popped a debugger,  
> failing in
> ImageSegment>>reshapeClasses:refStream as it tries to  
> Array>>elementsForwardIdentityTo:
>
> that is where the Error: a primitive has failed happens.
>
> Any ideas about how to solve this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
>
> P.S. Attached is the SqueakDebug.log
>
> <SqueakDebug.log>
>
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