This could then explain some oddness I'm seeing with text selections in Genie 
as well.  I'm using the stock UNIX VM from the ftp site...I'm assuming that it 
is lagging significantly behind the patches that have been flying around this 
list the past several months.

Can this be rectified by generating a new interp.c, or is there a patch on the 
sqfixes archive?



> Kevin,
> 
> This is a due to a VM which does not have the latest exception handling code. If you can't easily get a suitable VM, you can work around this problem by changing
> 
> file _ [fd readOnlyFileNamed: keysFileName] 
> 	on: FileDoesNotExistException do:[:ex| nil].
> 
> to
> 
> file _ [fd readOnlyFileNamed: keysFileName] 
> 	on: FileDoesNotExistException do:[:ex| ex resume: nil].
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:06:46 -0400 Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> wrote:
> >To follow up a bit on this:  I've tracked things down a bit further.  The 
> >method that is hanging is SecurityManager>>loadSecurityKeys.
> >
> >It is hanging at this point:
> >..
> >..
> >file _ [fd readOnlyFileNamed: keysFileName] 
> >	on: FileDoesNotExistException do:[:ex| nil].
> >
> >file ifNil:[ ^self]. "no keys file"
> >
> >.. 
> >..
> >
> >For some reason, during the start up of the image, the return from this method 
> >seems to deadlock..the rest of SecurityManager>>startUp never gets run.
> >
> >Again, if you run the startUp manually after the image has started, it works 
> >just fine...