I had this several times now. During updating, a notifier would pop up suggesting the sources file was not found. Selecting the file in the popup would always fix it.

Similar symptom when I was generating code which involved reading the old source. This sometimes would return nil:

	oldSource := (aClass >> selector) getSourceFromFile.

This fixed it:

	n := 0.
	[oldSource := (aClass >> selector) getSourceFromFile.
	oldSource isNil] whileTrue: [(Delay forMilliseconds: 100) wait. (n := n + 1) > 10 ifTrue: [self halt]].

The halt was never triggered.

Just reading the file is no problem. It appears to only manifest with the interleaved reading and writing that's happening when logging stuff to the changes file while also accessing old method sources.

In the updating scenario, #readOnlyCopy would return nil. The getSourceFromFile problem sounds similar.

I have seen this on Lion, others on Snow Leopard. Any idea?

Virtual Machine
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/Users/bert/Documents/Work/Frank/Cog.app/Contents/MacOS/Croquet
Croquet Closure Cog VM [CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.128] Croquet Cog 4.0.0
Mac OS X built on Sep 28 2011 13:20:56 Compiler: 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
platform sources revision r2496 http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog
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