On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 04:25:13AM +0000, B J wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 10.1 (Intel i386) on an external hard
> drive, using Mate as the desktop and Slim as the login manager.  I am
> having problems in getting Squeak to run on that system.
> 
> I used:
> 
> pkg install squeak
> 
> and the version that's installed is squeak-4.10.2_2
> 
> Running as root, I get the following messages:
> 
> CHECKING cogvm
> CHECKING squeakvm
> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> 
> The result is a 1 GB file named squeakvm.core in the root directory.
> 
> If I remove it and re-install it through as a port,  I get the same
> messages with squeakvm.core now located in:
> 
> /usr/ports/lang/squeak/work/state/usr/local/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/
> 
> Squeak itself, without an image specified in the command line, appears
> to run, so it seems that the installation has problems in reading
> images.

Try this method:
create a local working directory (lwd) for Squeak.
copy Squeak image and changes files to lwd.
from the command line:
 cd lwd
 squeak squeak.image

If this works create a shortcut to the desktop with the same commands
for the shortcut


> 
> Earlier, I tried different images and desktops, with the same result.
> 
> By comparison, I installed it on an internal drive on the same machine
> several months ago.  I was using FreeBSD 10.0, Gnome 2 as the desktop,
> and GDM as the login manager.  I had no problems in running Squeak
> with that configuration, though I believe the version is
> squeak-4.10.2.
> 
> I've made inquiries on the FreeBSD ports mailing list and in the
> FreeBSD forum, but no solution so far.
> 
> Did I miss something or do something wrong?  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you.
>