I've just tried to install squeak on two machines (I'm hoping to do my dissertation in Smalltalk). One is running the solaris os and one linux. Both are showing the same error message and no one involved can figure out why. Specifically, both seem to start up ok but both show a little white box in the upper left hand corner that says: "Squeak cannot locate the changes file named Squeak2.3.changes." and so forth. The file is definitely present, in the same directory, and has the same name it came with (which is the name in the error message). Anyone got any ideas about this?
We haven't done much with the solaris installation but I have played around with the other one on my linux box (300mhz K6-2 w/32meg pc-100 sdram). I'm having a host of problems that may be interrelated. After startup (it works in spite of the error mentioned above) the environment runs fine for a while, then either shuts itself down with a "low memory" sort of error message or else it starts ignoring the mouse. When I monitor system resource usage the memory looks fine but at times the cpu usage rises to 100% (press the middle mouse button and a little menu appears with the option "keep this window up" if I choose to keep it up then the cpu usage starts rising until it reaches 100% and then stays there until I close the menu, at which point it drops rapidly). All rather confusing.
I couldn't find any mention of this on any of the squeak web pages (unless it's on the one at gatech, which I can't get on for some reason) so I'm crying for help here.
Thanks, Kevin