I think that you probably have installed a VM that was compiled by someone
working to support the FreeBSD distribution. Unfortunately we do not
currently have a very good process for supporting those distro
maintainers, and some of the resulting VMs have problems.

Try loading one of the VMs available from
http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/ or
http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/. I'm not sure if there is a Cog VM for
FreeBSD at the moment, although I suspect one of the Linux ones would
work. Otherwise, try the FreeBSD VM from www.squeakvm.org/unix/, which is
an official release of the same VM that your tried to install through "pkg
install squeak".

I'm pretty sure that one of these VMs will work. If not, it's not hard to
compile your own, so ask again and we'll give you some pointers.

HTH,
Dave

> I recently installed FreeBSD 10.1 (Intel i386) on an external hard
> drive, using Mate as the desktop and Slim as the login manager.  I am
> having problems in getting Squeak to run on that system.
>
> I used:
>
> pkg install squeak
>
> and the version that's installed is squeak-4.10.2_2
>
> Running as root, I get the following messages:
>
> CHECKING cogvm
> CHECKING squeakvm
> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>
> The result is a 1 GB file named squeakvm.core in the root directory.
>
> If I remove it and re-install it through as a port,  I get the same
> messages with squeakvm.core now located in:
>
> /usr/ports/lang/squeak/work/state/usr/local/lib/squeak/4.10.2-2614/
>
> Squeak itself, without an image specified in the command line, appears
> to run, so it seems that the installation has problems in reading
> images.
>
> Earlier, I tried different images and desktops, with the same result.
>
> By comparison, I installed it on an internal drive on the same machine
> several months ago.  I was using FreeBSD 10.0, Gnome 2 as the desktop,
> and GDM as the login manager.  I had no problems in running Squeak
> with that configuration, though I believe the version is
> squeak-4.10.2.
>
> I've made inquiries on the FreeBSD ports mailing list and in the
> FreeBSD forum, but no solution so far.
>
> Did I miss something or do something wrong?  Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
>