I'm not sure exactly how to read the CI results, but I confirm that
the update may fail, I experienced two trunk update failure starting
at Squeak4.4-12327 on MacOS-X with latest COG VM.

So I renewed my fix in Kernel-nice.747, changed updates 222 to 227
again, and will wait for the reports...

Nicolas

2013/3/10 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:
> http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk-OSX/88/ shows things working,
> and the trend shows that the Mac Cog seems to have always been OK.
>
> http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/212/ shows bad things still
> happening with the Parser. If you look at the test history (show test
> failures only on http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/) you'll see
> this bug's biting hard - all the only-2-failing-test builds exhibit
> the behaviour.
>
> (Why do the tests run at all when it's a failing update? I _think_
> that's because the build script is insufficiently suicidal, and ends
> up running a TrunkImage from a previous build.)
>
> frank
>
> On 10 March 2013 19:10, Nicolas Cellier
> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, see the VM thread, I now think that problems does not come from
>> COG, but from ClassBuilder which in some cases fail to clean a cache
>> (primitive 116).
>> The problem does not show up in interpreter VM thanks to primitive 119
>> (this primitives does not unlink send in cogit).
>> I have attempted a ClassBuilder fix and posted new updates from
>> nice-222 to cwp-227.
>>
>> Can I please ask our testers contribution once again?
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>> 2013/3/8 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>>> 2013/3/8 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>>>>
>>>> On 2013-03-08, at 10:55, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 7 March 2013 23:25, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 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...
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, I lie. Here's an example of the CI jobs hitting the same
>>>>> issue: http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/204/console And further
>>>>> if you look at http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/ and choose to
>>>>> see the failing tests you'll see times (say around build #184) where
>>>>> the test failure count is unusually low. And
>>>>> http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/buildTimeTrend shows grey
>>>>> streaks where builds die.
>>>>
>>>> Curious that it still runs the tests at all if the update failed ...
>>>>
>>>> So Cog crashes, but has someone tried to replicate this on an interpreter?
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that the problem comes form COG which tries to use an obsolete
>>> method sent AFTER the recompilation of Parser which is not the
>>> expected behavior.
>>> I have triggered such kind of strange behavior that does not happen on
>>> an Interpreter VM, see the thread opened by Jeff Gonis '[Vm-dev] Cog
>>> VM Crash on Windows'
>>> For me, it must be related to a cache that is not cleaned-up, I don't know why.
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>
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