[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] Cog crashing when installing Cryptography

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:21:07PM -0300, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> When installing from Monticello everything go OK until "initializing..."
>> & then a seg fault happens. OS: Fedora 13, libuuid-2.17.2-6.fc13.i686 &
>> libuuid-devel-2.17.2-6.fc13.i686
>>
>> [casimiro at localhost cog.work]$ /opt/cog/squeak squeak.image
>>
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>>
>>
>> Smalltalk stack dump:
>> 0xbfcc1428 I UUID>initialize 2039877212: a(n) UUID
>> 0xbfcc1440 M UUID class(Behavior)>new: 2009777744: a(n) UUID class
>> 0xbfcc1464 I UUID class>new 2009777744: a(n) UUID class
>> 0xbfcc1484 I SmalltalkImageInstanceID class>instanceID 2031947652: a(n)
>
> This sounds like the old UUID bug:
>
> Mantis 7358: UUID>>initialize may crash VM for some images
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7358
>
> The problem affects some Linux platforms. The apparent fix is to build
> the plugin internally.

That doesn't really solve the problem. I couldn't use the official release 
on a machine, because the UUID plugin crashed. Since it was built as an
internal plugin, I couldn't get rid of it, so I had to rebuild the VM.


Levente

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> Dave
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