[Vm-dev] Stalled travis_tests in linux32x86

[Nicolas Cellier]

2017-12-06 23:13 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com>:

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> On 7 December 2017 at 05:05, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@
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>> 2017-12-05 23:02 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmai
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>>> OK, it's more complex (readLimit only refers to available buffer length
>>> not file length) and more simple than that...
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>>> Just trying with:
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>>> ../../../products/sqcogspurlinux/lib/squeak/5.0-201711262336/squeak
>>> TravisCI.image test.st
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>>> letting it run a few minutes and interrupting it, I'm in the infinite
>>> loop (nextChunk = '').
>>> That's because the method thinks it is written at position 11319975 (it
>>> might differ for you, because I launched the test.st several times)
>>> But the read only copy thinks it is already atEnd at position 11320088
>>> So it reads an empty chunk without making progress and will loop
>>> infinitely...
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>> Ahem, I don't remember to which substance I was exposed yesterday, those
>> are the wrong figures...
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> A HeinekenBug?   Like a Heisenbug, but more amber.
> cheers -ben
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:)

I shudder to think how horrible a bugweiser could be!

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or at least let you think so.
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