2017-11-27 9:20 GMT+01:00 Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com>:

Hi,

There are recurrent reports that Pharo is crashing often.

However, at the moment I believe the reasons are not clarified. So, this mail is not about fixing the issues, but first about clarifying what they are.

Namely:

- I know about the typing problem on MacOS (Sierra or High Sierra). I encounter this problem daily (literally), and I know that I am not the only one. For example, this can occur when I type ���classs��� fast and then delete the last character. It is documented here:
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/141

- Some people talk about the FreeType problem, but I could not find a place where this is described. So, while this might be a problem, I am not sure that this problem is actually causing crashes.

So, first question:
- is Pharo crashing on another system than MacOS Sierra or HighSierra?

Yes.

On Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.04), 64bits Pharo segfaults if you use either the stable or the latest vm from get.pharo.org.

 

- how does the FreeType problem look like?

? It doesn't seems to be related.

Regards,

Thierry

 

Cheers,
Doru


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