> On Jul 22, 2022, at 3:13 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Eliot --
> 
> > 1. the update fails with a merge conflict in the release builder between: [...]
> 
> If you want to prepare a VMMaker Trunk image, you would use a regular Trunk image, not a release image. I think. So, why aren't you using a recent 6.1alpha image?
> -> http://files.squeak.org/6.1alpha/Squeak6.1alpha-22134-64bit/
> 

OK, I’ll try that.  Thanx!!

> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 22.07.2022 05:06:27 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>>     ok, this is a bit of a disaster.  The invocation is now:
>> 
>> Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st
>> 
>> Why was it changed?
>> 
>> And the result:
>> 
>> 1. the update fails with a merge conflict in the release builder between:
>>     SystemVersion newVersion: 'Squeak6.0'
>> and
>>     SystemVersion newVersion: 'Squeak6.1alpha'
>> 
>> 2. a Note that says 'Cannot start a second instance of Squeak
>> with the image "UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st"
>> because the VM is configured as singleton application.' becauser somewhere something is generating a DropFileEvent for the UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st file.  The system shouldn't be both executing the script argument and generating a drop file event for it.
>> 
>> The effective result is that I can't automate building a VMMaker image as I was once able to. :-(
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 6:23 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>>     I'm trying ot update the VMMaker image build scripts. I've got as far as downloading the latest 6.x image and VM (much easier now; thanks to everyone who has made the github pages easier to navigate!!).
>>> 
>>> How do I launch a trunk6 image with a script so that the system is running headful and one can see it make progress?
>>> 
>>> I am launching with this on MacOS: and I get a headless blank screen that appears to be 640x480, quite different to the normal startup showing the configuration wizard I get f I launch without the arguments:
>>> 
>>> ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image -- UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st
>>> 
>>> where trunk6-64.image is a clone of e.g. Squeak6.0-22104-64bit.image
>>> 
>>> I've tried
>>>     ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image -- --filein UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st    ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image --filein UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st
>>> etc, but get the 640x480 grey screen image.  
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
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