[squeak-dev] Re: Stuck again

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Aug 12 11:38:09 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:15:12PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Alexander Lazarevic' wrote:
> >Somehow I'm stuck here. The latest vm that can handle a trunk image
> >won't run on my linux notebook and on the WindowXP notebook I get a
> >strange behavior. Although the image, changes and sources files are in
> >place, the vm keeps telling me, that it can't find the image file?! Is
> >it because I "only" have an admin account on that machine? All
> >permissions seem to be right.
> 
> On Windows, you get this behavior if you have an old VM associated with 
> the .image extension and then double-click the image. Make sure you have 
> the 3.11.3 Windows VM and that you drag and drop the image onto that VM. 
> As for the UUID problem, this seems to be a known issue on some Linux 
> variants. I recommend removing the UUIDPlugin library if you can (I 
> don't know if it's built internal or external) and if you can't, comment 
> out the UUID>>primMakeUUID primitive.

Yes, the UUIDPlugin is built as an external plugin, so deleting
the plugin (i.e. remove file /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.10-6/UUIDPlugin)
is a workaround. It would be good if someone can think of a less
awkward workaround; perhaps it's possible to static link to a known
good version of libuuid?

Dave




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