Yes, there is an issue:
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20094/Headless-mode-breaks-image

On 7 Jun 2017, at 11:17, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

This has been reported before I believe, but there is something weird when saving images on the command line.

On macOS 10.12.5

$ curl get.pharo.org/60+vm | bash
...

$ ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion
[version] 6.0 #60499

$ ./pharo Pharo.image save one

$ ./pharo one.image printVersion
[version] 6.0 #60499

$ ./pharo one.image eval '42 factorial'
1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000

$ ./pharo-ui one.image

Does not open the UI, no window, hangs, no error, nothing. Since the image itself still works, it must be a UI thing.

Sven