[Vm-dev] Image crashes on launch, how to debug?

Bernhard Pieber bernhard at pieber.com
Sun Sep 20 14:10:20 UTC 2015


Hi Eliot,

Thanks for the generous offer. I will do that.

Cheers,
Bernhard

> Am 20.09.2015 um 14:32 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> Hi Bernard,
> 
>    would you be willing to upload image and changes to my ftp site so could take a look?  I shall destroy it as soon as I've diagnosed the problem.  If there is intellectual property in the image you could encrypt the archive and communicate the password to me.
> 
> The site is ftp.mirandabanda.org, use is cog ftp user as a single word and the password is cogging with the usual digit substitutions for "oi".
> 
> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
> 
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 2:34 AM, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I have an image which does not launch anymore, which it did perfectly fine the last time I opened it. I cannot remember I changed anything. The image is a 5.1 trunk image into which I loaded a large JSON file. It is 2.66 GB in size. I am on OS X 10.10.5 and use the latest CogSpur.app r3427. I tried all CogSpur VMs back to r3343. They fail the same way.
>> 
>> When I drag the image onto the VM in the same folder the following is printed in the Console:
>> 20.09.15 11:22:57,241 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.squeak.Cog.514072[6465]) Service exited with abnormal code: 12
>> 
>> However, I cannot find any crash.dmp. I assume this should be in the very same folder where the VM and the image are, right?
>> 
>> I looked for a debug VM to be able to get some more information. However, I could not find one. Any ideas what I could try next?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bernhard
>> 



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