On 09 Feb 2012, at 22:27, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
My new 1.4 image is behaving a *little* better than its predecessors, but there is still a problem. It seems to happen after invoking Metacello loads, even with the mirror. Odd behaviors include:
(1) can't open debugger (2) can't open process browser (3) intermittent flashing/alternating cursors in text editors.
Whatever happens, it seems to be saved into the image as MC works, because killing the image and reloading results in a hobbled system.
At least with 1.4, I can sometimes break into a debugger, presumably because something is busy in a tight loop. That might be a/the parser??
BTW, in an hour (max) of playing around, I've generated a 38 MB debug log - too big to read :( There are mentions of a parser, but my grep creativity has not allowed me to pull out any useful information. Perhaps I can start over with a clean log, let it get into some trouble, and review the log at a smaller size.
Suggestions?
Some remarks: - if you load code and it fails for whatever reason, and there was no hidden save somewhere, I would be extremely surprised if killing the image (clean or otherwise) would result in permanent damage; the only side effect could be in your filesystem (local package cache), but even that would normally not hurt the image itself - you are obviously loading lots of stuff: when this does not work, that is not 'Pharo's fault', you should ask the people who wrote these libraries for help (maybe through this list); you can't call gcc crap or unstable when a certain library fails - when you are reporting bugs and ask for help, you really have to bring your problem down to a simple test case that others can reproduce; even if people would want to help you, they cannot do so with these generalizations Sven