Hi Bernat, Interesting, I never heard of #backupTo: But if recover.image is a copy of MyImage.image, and that last one failed to start up, why then would the copy not have the same problem ? Sven On 24 Oct 2013, at 13:32, Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapalanca@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
I've just recovered a broken image that crashed upon startup. There was some problem with a SerialPort that stayed open and tried to write/read into a physical port that didn't exist no more, or something of the sort.
So here's the magic line:
$ bin/myVm shared/MyImage.image eval "SmalltalkImage backupTo: 'recover'"
This makes a copy of the image into a new image called "recover.image", but as the documentation states:
Unlike #saveAs: do not transfer the default execution to the new image.
So there you go!
Hope it helps someone else. :)
-- Bernat Romagosa.