[squeak-dev] VM Crash on Linux

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Thu Feb 24 09:22:14 UTC 2011


On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Jeff G wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wish I could give better information as to why this occurred, but I
> couldn't find a crash log file generated or anything similar.  Any advice or
> suggestions that you have on how I can gather better information would be
> appreciated and I will follow up on them.
>
> I was working to save a few hours of work to a Monticello repository and
> when I clicked the "Save" button to bring up the commit message window the
> VM crashed dumping me back at the command line with this trace:
>
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> sound_Start(default)
> soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented
> I/O possible
>
> I am not sure why it was trying to play a sound, but it looks like that was
> the cause.  This is the latest Cog VM taken from Eliot, r2361.  Anyway, I
> was able to recover my changes so it wasn't a huge inconvenience, but I
> figured that I would report it because I had just worked past the UUID crash
> and I was feeling good about smalltalking on my linux box again and then
> this hit me.

The symptoms are the same as the UUID bug's. Did you delete UUIDPlugin? 
Does evaluating [UUID new] crash the VM?
Are you sure that the console messages appeared after (or around) the 
crash?


Levente

>
> Thanks for your help,
> Jeff G.
>



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