Hi Edwin,

That's weird, this looks strangely familiar, but can't remember what it was.

Please turn on debug

   MagmaPreferences debug: true.

and then try creating your database again.  This will cause it to stop
in the server code wherever the problem is.  If you'll post that stack
here, I can help.

I'm quite curious, thanks.

 - Chris


On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 10:32 AM Edwin Ancaer <eancaer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Should I be able to install Magma in Squeak 5.3?
>
> Image
> -----
> /usr/home/edwin/Smalltalk53/magma.image
> Squeak5.3
> latest update: #19481
> Current Change Set: HomeProject
> Image format 68021 (64 bit)
>
> Virtual Machine
> ---------------
> /usr/home/edwin/Smalltalk53/opensmalltalk-vm/building/linux64x64/squeak.cog.spur/build/squeak
> Open Smalltalk Cog[Spur] VM [CoInterpreterPrimitives VMMaker.oscog-eem.3142]
> Unix built on Aug 15 2022 13:47:05 Compiler: FreeBSD Clang 10.0.1 (git at github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.1-0-gef32c611aa2)
> platform sources revision VM: 202201220125 edwin at ottopedi:/usr/home/edwin/Smalltalk53/opensmalltalk-vm Date: Fri Jan 21 17:25:16 2022 CommitHash: 0df6348be Plugins: 202201220125 edwin at ottopedi:/usr/home/edwin/Smalltalk53/opensmalltalk-vm
>
> I used SqueaKmap to install VERSION 1.65 tests of Magma and then, following https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2689, executed
>
>  MagmaRepositoryController
>     create: '/home/edwin/MyMagmaFolder'
>     root: PDAPerson new.
>
> and got the message: MessageNotUnderstood: SmallInteger>>isByteString, as in the added screenshot.
>
> Can this be my image/VM that cause this problem?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Edwin Ancaer
>