Agreed. It's more complicated than it sounds, of course: the proper
fix is to push out new updated binaries to ftp.squeak.org.

frank

On 26 April 2013 13:17, Pavel Krivanek <squeak1 at continentalbrno.cz> wrote:
> Please submit then info to redhat bugzilla about where Jaroslav can find the
> fixed 4.3 image to repack it.
>
> -- Pavel
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 25 April 2013 15:35, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 25 April 2013 13:54, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 02:18:22PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> This didn't sound like a VM problem at first, but according to the
>> >>> discussion it is:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956376
>> >>>
>> >>> Any idea?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> On my 64-bit Linux with an interpreter VM compiled in 64-bit, and using
>> >> Squeak - no problem. With a 32-bit interpreter - no problem. With Cog -
>> >> again, no problem.
>> >>
>> >> I edited the class comment for class Array in each case.
>> >>
>> >> Dave
>> >
>> > "Error: RemoteString past end of file" can indicate a broken/damages
>> > changes file.
>> >
>> > It does when I get the error, at least. Usually that happens when I
>> > have to hard-kill an image that's stored state in the changes file.
>> > Restarting the image means there's a mismatch somehow in the state
>> > between the image and the changes file. Once you get one of these
>> > you're nearly completely hosed: you can't file things out, for
>> > instance.
>>
>> For those not following the Pharo list, it looks like the root cause
>> is that the glibc in Ubuntu 13.04 doesn't immediately write new
>> content out to the file. Thus you can "write" to the file, and then
>> read from the file, only your RemoteString starts off the end of the
>> file. The fix is to make WriteStream >> #nextPutChunk: call "self
>> flush". I've pushed a 4.5 fix to trunk, but have not yet done the same
>> for the 4.4 and 4.3 update streams.
>>
>> frank
>>
>
>
>
>