[squeak-dev] VM crash upgrading via trunk from 5.1-17325 (420->421)

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Tue Mar 20 19:29:32 UTC 2018


macOS 10.13.4 beta 5 (17E182a)

I just successfully updated trunk 17595 -> 17820 in Squeak6.0alpha-17595-64bit.image
running on Squeak.cog.spur_macos64x64_201803080952.app from bintray <https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/201803080952#files <https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/201803080952#files>>.

> Note
> Update completed.
> 
> Version: Squeak6.0alpha
> Update: 17595 -> 17820
> 
> Url: http://source.squeak.org/trunk
> Map: 'update'
> 
> ALPHA. New features which are not stable yet may come in
> with each update. Also, existing features might not work reliably
> due to updates and related changes.

Ken G. Brown

> On Mar 20, 2018, at 12:06, Tim Johnson <digit at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcel,
> 
> Thanks! That helped.  I was able to update to #421 after running this. Should this message be sent as a postamble script or preload script or somesuch?
> 
> Now unfortunately the (64-bit image on OS X) locks up (no crash) at update-nice.422.mcm, "Installing Kernel-nice.1127".  :)  In SqueakDebug.log, there is the following:
> 
> MessageNotUnderstood: TextMorph>>currentHand
> 
> For the record: it has been very useful to upgrade the MonticelloConfigurations package to the latest version, so I have the ability to send e.g.
> 
> MCMcmUpdater default doUpdateUpTo: 421
> 
> Thanks again,
> Tim
> 
> On 2018-03-20 09:50, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tim,
>> try "Smalltalk cleanUp: true" before applying update #421.
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>>> Am 19.03.2018 08:11:05 schrieb Tim Johnson <digit at sonic.net>:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I was able to upgrade a 5.1 image all the way to update #420 (17325), thanks to the helpful new-ish methods in MCMcmUpdater.  Should I be able to upgrade beyond that?
>>> When I try to apply #421, I get a friendly offer to drop into an emergency evaluator.  One time a dialog box appeared, informing me that the VM has crashed.  I thought I grabbed a screenshot of the VM crash dialog, but I guess I didn't.  I do have a crash.dmp file.
>>> System details:
>>> 32-bit Windows 7
>>> 32-bit image, starting with 5.1 and upgraded via trunk through update-420
>>> VMs tried: squeakcog.spur_win32x86_201803080952 and cog_win32x86_squeak.cog.spur_201608171728
>>> Updates being applied at time of crash:
>>> update-mt.421.mcm
>>> System-mt.963
>>> (I was also unable to update a 5.1 image via trunk past some point on OS X without a crash.  It might have been this update there too, but I don't have the details to confirm for now.)
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tim
> 

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