On 19 January 2011 13:57, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu> wrote:
I have seen this only a couple of times, and I am not aware of a shortcut to returning to a working image and recovering lost changes. Â As an aside, I am suspicious that opening an image more than once leads to much more badness than is generally acknowledged. Â I am convinced it was central to my most recent meltdown. Â The only reason I don't have more trouble is that I have learned to scan the task bar before launching Pharo.
We need a cross-platform way to detect that a given image is open and to at least optionally warn and offer to exit without doing any damage. Â Dolphin does so by creating a Windows synchronization object (either a semaphore or an event??) tied to the image name, and if that object exists, it sternly warns against proceeding. Â Deployed executables do not do this check by default.
There is nothing wrong starting multiple processes using single .image file. During startup, vm just reads data from it. And when writing to an .image file, a process who first opens it should obtain a global lock on it, so nothing will have chances to interfere. So, it seems that image file was damaged or not written completely..
Good luck retrieving your work!
________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Diogenes Moreira [diogenes.moreira@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 7:42 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] Any Clue..
Hi folks..
 this morning, at try start my enviroment, pharo said... "Read failed or premature end of image file".. Any Clue to solve it, will be welcome.
Well I can get a clean image and apply de changes.. but somebody have a shortcut..??
Best
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.