I see the same thing under both the unix vm (3.3-7) and the mac vm  
(3.8.6Beta6) on a mac. I haven't tried updating the map under windows.  
It works out of the box, but somewhere during updates and installation  
of other packages, or maybe simply a restart, it stops working at  
described.

Brian.


On Apr 29, 2005, at 12:53 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> 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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