Frozen image

Amos aaamos at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 11:02:35 UTC 2007


Hi All,

A couple of hours ago, I tried loading the FreeType Plus fonts via the
Package Browser into my web dev image. It took a while, so I did
something else and when I came back to take a look maybe 20 minutes
later, it was still sitting there with an unfinished progress bar. So
I figured it had hung itself and closed the image without saving (the
image was still responding).

Now when I start the image again, I get a frozen window that won't
refresh (it displays whatever was behind it initially, or just black
when it's minimised and restored). If I hit the close button on the
window, Squeak happily asks me if I want to exit without saving, so
I'm assuming that part of it is still running.

Is that a "common" problem? Is there any way I can break in and stop
whatever it's doing that freezes it up? I've tried Ctrl+B and Ctrl+Y
(common mappings in VisualWorks), but can't seem to do anything;
clicking any mouse button does nothing. There are quite a few things
I've worked on recently that I'd like to save the image if possible,
hopefully without having to manually go through the changes file. Any
hints how I can achieve that would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Amos



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