3.7 image Segfault on Linux

Milan Zimmermann milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 8 20:03:42 UTC 2003


Mike, Ken

thanks for your suggestions - i will get the source from CVS and give it a try 
next weekend,

Milan
On December 8, 2003 04:35 am, Michael Roberts wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 03:58:47PM -0500, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to run 3.7 image. I downloaded the 3.7 image+changes version
> > 5595 and copied them in a directory along with V3 sources.
> >
> > When i run squeak, I get:
> >
> > cd  /home/mzimmermann/dev/smalltalk/squeak3.7;squeak
> > /home/mzimmermann/dev/smalltalk/squeak3.7/Squeak3.7a-5595.image
> >
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > 1090455188 SystemDictionary>lowSpaceWatcher
> > 1090455556 [] in SystemDictionary>installLowSpaceWatcher
> > 1090455648 [] in BlockContext>newProcess
> > Aborted
> >
> > this is my Squeak VM version:
> >
> > mzimmermann at laptop:~/dev/smalltalk/squeak3.7> squeak -version
> > 3.6-beta11 #8 Wed Sep  3 18:10:49 CEST 2003 gcc egcs-2.91.66
> > Squeak3.6beta of '4 July 2003' [latest update: #5411]
> > Linux pingu.inria.fr 2.2.19-6.2.7 #1 Thu Jun 14 07:51:10 EDT 2001 i686
> > default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-beta11/*.so
> > mzimmermann at laptop:~/dev/smalltalk/squeak3.7>
> >
> > Linux Suse 8.2 if that matters .. does anyone have similar problem and/or
> > known solution .. or am i doing something stupid?
>
> It is probably the same problem that a number of people, myself included,
> have had in running 3.7 images on Linux.  If you search back through the
> mailing list you will find a number of posts that describe how you rebuild
> the VM for operation in 3.7.  Ned has supplied various VM fixes as well and
> you can get these from CVS - there is a post about this too.
>
> Let me know if you get stuck and I'll help you out.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
> > Thanks, Milan
> >
> > PS:  (The 3.7 map starts up on Windows for me, not sure which version of
> > VM)




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