bug? 3.9 & 3.8 - saving changes file

Rick Zaccone zaccone at bucknell.edu
Mon Nov 19 22:57:29 UTC 2007


Thanks Tim.  I'll send this to the Squeak list.

Rick

On Nov 19, 2007, at 2007-11-19, 4:39 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ran into a strange error and then I was able to reproduce it.   
> Running Mac
> OS X 10.4.10 on Intel with VM 3.8.18beta1U. Repeated error on  
> 3.8-6665 as
> well.  I have a feeling you all already know about this and will  
> chuckle
> at me.
>
> Here are the steps.
>
> - Open up an image.
> - Make some change, like typing text into a Workspace
> - In Finder, rename the folder the image is in
> - Quit, do not save
>
> Resulting error:  "Error: a primitive has failed" ...
>
> Stack:
> MultiByteFileStream(Object)>>error:
> MultiByteFileStream(Object)>>primitiveFailed
> MultiByteFileStream(StandardFileStream)>>primSize:
> MultiByteFileStream(StandardFileStream)>>size
>
> Now obviously it is trying to write to the .changes file but  
> the .changes
> file is in a folder that has been renamed.  Maybe this error should be
> handled more gracefully, though.  Debugging this and making a change
> (replacing an underscore with a ':=' ) actually brought me to a Big  
> Bad
> System-Error-Handling-Failed Emergency Evaluator.
>
> *Also*, it becomes impossible to quit Squeak even though everything  
> seems
> to be running fine... one cannot Quit And Save, nor can one Quit  
> Without
> Saving!  Catch-22.
>
> Hope maybe this is something that someone is interested in.  If not,  
> sorry.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
>
>




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