ok I think , and thats an assumption, the new FFI may be to blame here.

navigating through all the code to find exactly the low level stuff it leads me to OSEnviroment getEnv: which is what it uses to get the low level stuff enviroment variable data , so far so good

the source is

^self ffiCall: #(#String #getevn #(#(String #string)) module: LibC

and once again so far so good, but if I try to right click and choose versions so I see when this method has been modified, it freezes my image every single time.

So something really weird goes on with the new FFI , if its the new FFI or not something else.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:44 PM Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

"Do you have the sources file ? (PharoV40.sources)"

just for the record it used to work fine, and I have done nothing to my system.�� If you use the command I posted you will see it installs everything it needs.

"Some of these seem to be resolved through environment variables that you might not have. Read the comment for UnixResolver>>#xdgUserDir:

And no, I don't know why this is implemented that way. Apparently they are following some standard."

and I repeat once again , that it used to work fine.

I look at the source code and trying to navigate through it froze my image.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:25 PM Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Some of these seem to be resolved through environment variables that you might not have. Read the comment for UnixResolver>>#xdgUserDir:

And no, I don't know why this is implemented that way. Apparently they are following some standard.

> On 15 Dec 2015, at 11:14, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I get my pharo on ubuntu 14 64 bit with
>
> cd Ephestos; wget -O- get.pharo.org/alpha+vmLatest | bash
>
> looks like startup scripts on ubuntu has been broken
>
> StartupPreferencesLoader preferencesGeneralFolder .
>
> returns nil, looking inside the method's source if I do
>
> FileLocator preferences asFileReference
>
> gives me a nice error Cant find the requested origin
>
> trying with
>
> cd Ephestos; wget -O- get.pharo.org/alpha+vm | bash
>
> for getting the stable default vm, same problem, so I assume this is an image problem
>
> here is the stack
>
> UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>cantFindOriginError [ self cantFindOriginError ] in UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed: in Block: [ self cantFindOriginError ] [ ^ aBlock value ] in UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: in Block: [ ^ aBlock value ] BlockClosure>>cull: Context>>evaluateSignal: Context>>handleSignal: Error(Exception)>>signal Error(Exception)>>signal: Error class(Exception class)>>signal: FFICallout>>loaderForArgNamed: FFICallout>>loaderForArgNamed:indirectIndex: FFICallout>>argName:indirectIndex:type:ptrArity: FFIFunctionParser>>parseArgument FFIFunctionParser>>parseArguments FFIFunctionParser>>parseNamedFunction: FFICalloutMethodBuilder>>parseSignature: FFICalloutMethodBuilder>>generate FFICalloutMethodBuilder>>build: FFICalloutAPI>>function:module: UnixEnvironment(Object)>>ffiCall:module: UnixEnvironment(OSEnvironment)>>getEnv: UnixEnvironment(OSEnvironment)>>at:ifAbsent: [ Smalltalk os environment at: aString ifAbsent: [ nil ] ] in UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: in Block: [ Smalltalk os environment at: aString ifAbsent: [...etc... BlockClosure>>on:do: UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed: UnixResolver>>home [ self home / '.config' ] in UnixResolver>>preferences in Block: [ self home / '.config' ] [ ^ aBlock value ] in UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: in Block: [ ^ aBlock value ] BlockClosure>>cull:
>
>