On 7 March 2013 23:11, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 2013-03-07, at 23:42, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> On 6 March 2013 15:59, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> Running on COG 2397, and after updating fresh Squeak4.4-12327 Release to
>>>>> 12332, updating to Trunk  fails at first attempt in the same place, then by
>>>>> abandoning and trying the update again, it apparently completes to 12511.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Ken G. Brown
>>>>>
>>>>>> With COG 2678, pretty well the same. First attempt it timed out during
>>>>>> the same update-nice-223, then trying again from what had already been
>>>>>> loaded, got the following during the same update, during compiling
>>>>>> SMLoader-fbs-78 as before:
>>
>> What I find strange about all this is that we take a 4.4-12327 image
>> and whatever the latest Cog is and update it all the way without any
>> probems quite a few times a day on the CI server.
>>
>> frank
>
> Looks like it's an intermittent problem, unfortunately:
>
> I just updated the new all-in-one-cog to latest trunk, no problem. This is a 4.4-12327 image with Cog VM 2697.
>
> I then tried what Ken described: update the fresh image first from the squeak44 stream, then switch to trunk, then update again.
>
> BOOM. Cog crash. Didn't save the log unfortunately.
>
> Tried again. Update, switch to trunk, update again. No crash. What?!
>
> Once more. Update, switch to trunk, update. Crash! See below.
>
> Tried yet again, with switching to trunk immediately in a fresh image. Crashes, too, same place.
>
> So it does crash, just not always. But it's been more than 50% in my case.

Ah, interesting. The CI jobs, naturally, don't update from squeak44;
they switch to trunk and update just like that. Which I would have
thought would make no difference...

frank

> - Bert -