Thank you guys! It is really great to see that there are people like Max 
jumping onto problems like this and solving it. 

@sven I’m eager to test when the new configuration is available. Please drop us 
a note when you are done!

thanks again,

Norbert

> Am 22.07.2018 um 11:06 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>:
> 
> Ah, that makes total sense. Great catch. Thank you.
> 
> ===
> Name: Zinc-FileSystem-SvenVanCaekenberghe.17
> Author: SvenVanCaekenberghe
> Time: 22 July 2018, 11:04:40.148339 am
> UUID: e97a508e-f42d-0d00-a127-f016078b1897
> Ancestors: Zinc-FileSystem-SvenVanCaekenberghe.16
> 
> Bugfix to ZnFileSystemUtils class>>#newBinaryFileNamed:do: we must ensure 
> that the binaryStream opened here is closed as well (thx Max Leske for the 
> bug hunting and fix)
> ===
> 
> The method in question now look as follows:
> 
> newBinaryFileNamed: fileName do: block
>       | fileReference |
>       fileReference := fileName asFileReference.
>       ^ (fileReference respondsTo: #binaryWriteStreamDo:ifPresent:)
>               ifTrue: [
>                       fileName asFileReference 
>                               binaryWriteStreamDo: block 
>                               ifPresent: [ FileExists signalWith: 
> fileReference ] ]
>               ifFalse: [ 
>                       fileReference isFile 
>                               ifTrue: [ FileExists signalWith: fileReference 
> ] 
>                               ifFalse: [ | binaryStream |
>                                       binaryStream := self 
> binaryFileStreamFor: fileName.
>                                       [ block value: binaryStream ] ensure: [ 
> binaryStream close ] ] ]
> 
> I create a new 2.9.4 of the config later on.
> 
>> On 21 Jul 2018, at 22:00, Max Leske <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Sven, you're right. What I found last time works as a side-effect. The real 
>> problem is in ZnFileSystemUtils class>>newBinaryFileNamed:do:. In Pharo 6.1 
>> the logic there leads to the following evaluation:
>> 
>> block value: (self binaryFileStreamFor: fileName)
>> 
>> This is the only place where the stream is created without a surrounding 
>> safety block (e.g. #writeStream:do:), which means, no one closes the stream. 
>> The line should be:
>> 
>> | s |
>> s := self binaryFileStreamFor: fileName.
>> [ block value: s ] ensure: [ s close ]
>> 
>> ZnFileSystemUtils class>>newBinaryFileNamed:do: is only used by ZnClient 
>> after loading Zinc-HTTP-SvenVanCaekenberghe.472, which is being loaded by 
>> version 2.9.1 of ConfigurationOfZincHTTPComponents.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> 
>> On 21 Jul 2018, at 17:21, Max Leske wrote:
>> 
>> Just to be safe, I'll redo my experiment and get back to you.
>> 
>> On 21 Jul 2018, at 16:59, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>> I tried running Max's snippet (Pharo 6.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS),
>> 
>> ZnClient new
>> url: 'https://github.com/zweidenker/Parasol/archive/master.zip';
>> downloadTo: '/tmp/foobar.zip'.
>> bytes := '/tmp/foobar.zip' asFileReference binaryReadStreamDo: [ :s | s 
>> contents ].
>> Transcript open; show: bytes size; cr.
>> 5 seconds asDelay wait.
>> Transcript show: ('/tmp/foobar.zip' asFileReference binaryReadStreamDo: [ :s 
>> | s contents ]) size.
>> 
>> And it gives me,
>> 
>> 318420
>> 318420
>> 
>> For me there is nothing nothing to see here ... and I have the impression we 
>> are all talking about different things.
>> On 21 Jul 2018, at 14:18, Max Leske <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 21 Jul 2018, at 12:07, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> Max,
>> 
>> what do you think will be a proper fix for this? I cannot see if this is a 
>> vm problem or not.
>> 
>> In my opinion it should be fixed in Zinc as there's no way for the user of 
>> Zinc to flush the stream. The alternative would be for Zinc to expose a 
>> method or setting that allows the user to specify the expected behaviour.
>> I do not think that this should be handled by the VM plugin or the stream 
>> class, as there are indeed different behaviours that make sense.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> Norbert
>> Am 14.07.2018 um 08:25 schrieb Max Leske <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> Hi Nicolas,
>> 
>> The PR you are referring [1] to concerns a missing fflush() when truncating 
>> a file. I believe that is a different case to this one, as a) the file is 
>> not truncated and b) in the case of truncation it is an explicit requirement 
>> that the file be empty before the first write happens. In our case, and in 
>> general, it depends on the situation whether flushing must occur 
>> immediately, e.g. because the file will be read again immediately, or not, 
>> e.g. when writing a data to a backup file.
>> 
>> Thanks for the pointer though.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> 
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/271
>> On 12 Jul 2018, at 23:19, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>> 
>> Isn't there a recent PR on opensmalltalk that address just this?
>> Le jeu. 12 juil. 2018 à 23:16, Max Leske <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Norbert,
>> 
>> I was able to reproduce the problem and then identify the culprit,
>> although what I don't yet understand is how this is related to the changes
>> in Zinc.
>> 
>> Anyway, the problem is that the file stream isn't properly flushed in
>> ZnUtils class>>streamFrom:to:size:. Adding outputStream flush as the last
>> statement fixes your problem. Apparently, StandardFileStream /
>> MultiByteFileStream perform a simple close() on the file which, according
>> to the man page on close(), does *not* guarantee that the contents have
>> all been written to file. In this case a flush is necessary because the
>> entire file is immediately read again.
>> 
>> Here's a smaller test case for you to play with Sven:
>> 
>> ZnClient new
>> url: 'https://github.com/zweidenker/Parasol/archive/master.zip';
>> downloadTo: '/tmp/foobar.zip'.
>> bytes := '/tmp/foobar.zip' asFileReference binaryReadStreamDo: [ :s | s 
>> contents ].
>> Transcript open; show: bytes size; cr.
>> 5 seconds asDelay wait.
>> Transcript show: ('/tmp/foobar.zip' asFileReference binaryReadStreamDo: [ :s 
>> | s contents ]) size.
>> 
>> The output in the Transcript should be:
>> 
>> 315392
>> 318420
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> 
>> On 12 Jul 2018, at 8:17, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> 
>> Am 12.07.2018 um 08:05 schrieb Max Leske [email protected]:
>> 
>> On 11 Jul 2018, at 22:44, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Max,
>> 
>> I constructed a case that fails exactly like I experience it. Could you
>> try? Just unpack the attachment on a linux, set PHARO_VM env to your
>> executable and execute build.sh
>> 
>> I will. Might take a couple of days though.
>> 
>> No problem. I‘m happy if you find time.
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> Max
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> Am 10.07.2018 um 09:17 schrieb Max Leske [email protected]:
>> 
>> On 10 Jul 2018, at 8:48, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> 
>> Max,
>> 
>> thanks for taking the effort.
>> 
>> No worries.
>> 
>> Am 10.07.2018 um 08:37 schrieb Max Leske [email protected]:
>> 
>> I did my best to reproduce the issue but didn't have any luck. I really
>> need access to a Linux VM to debug this. So I'm praying that Apple fixes
>> the access restrictions to kernel extensions in their next beta...
>> 
>> BTW, Metacello uses ZnClient, which uses ZnFileSystemUtils, so there is
>> indeed a chance that something goes wrong during download of the zip
>> archive and that something may be tied to a difference in the versions of
>> Zinc (although I still think that's unlikely).
>> 
>> Yes there is potential but I don‘t see it. I take a fresh 6.1 image and
>> load my project into. I‘m not sure but I think zinc 2.9.2 is loaded rather
>> early in that process. So I wonder why it does not go wrong in the first
>> phase. And also not if I load the test group within the first phase.
>> It must be either the second Metacello invocation or the stopping, copying
>> and starting of the image.
>> I try to isolate this case more and provide a script that goes wrong on my
>> machine. But it will take some time because I needed to stop trying to
>> solve this as I wasted nearly two days on that already.
>> 
>> Let me know once you have something and I'll try to help out.
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> Max
>> 
>> On 9 Jul 2018, at 19:43, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> 
>> Am 09.07.2018 um 19:10 schrieb Max Leske [email protected]:
>> 
>> I checked the Parasol Archive and it does not appear to be in Zip64 format
>> (Metacello uses ZipArchive which can't cope with Zip64 but ZipArchive can
>> read the Parasol zip). So my next guess is that there's either a problem
>> with Metacello or Pharo in the way that ZipArchive is used (e.g. endianness
>> problem or non-binary stream data). It would therefore be helpful to find
>> out what happens in ZipArchive>>readFrom:, i.e. what kind of stream is
>> passed / opened, is it binary, does the file exist and is it still the
>> correct file.
>> 
>> I couldn’t see anything obvious. The file in the debug message exists, it
>> is a readable zip file. The way Metacello uses it it is a
>> StandardFileStream. It switches it to binary in the code.
>> But the only difference between a working and non-working build is the
>> upgrade to zinc 2.9.2.
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> I'd debug it myself but I can't run VirtualBox at the moment because I'm
>> on the macOS beta and it won't start...
>> 
>> Max
>> 
>> On 9 Jul 2018, at 18:31, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Max,
>> 
>> Am 09.07.2018 um 18:18 schrieb Max Leske [email protected]:
>> 
>> Hi Norbert,
>> 
>> This is a bit of a guess, but it's possible that the archive that is
>> downloaded from github is in Zip64 format and that the libraries for
>> extracting Zip64 are missing on your Linux. That would of course contradict
>> the experience that the same operation appears to work in 6.1.
>> 
>> to be honest I don’t know what Zip64 format is. I thought the Zip classes
>> are pure smalltalk for unpacking.
>> 
>> Try extracting the archive manually on your Linux machine with the same
>> method that Metacello uses (I assume, Metacello uses the ZipPlugin, which
>> will probably use the system libraries).
>> 
>> I have no ZipPlugin as library in any of my vms.
>> 
>> But there are zips downloaded and unpacked. I start the image the first
>> time loading all the code of my project. Then it is saved, copied to a new
>> name and reopened to load the tests and then it fails. I did try to load
>> the tests in the first run and then it works.
>> 
>> I’m running out of ideas
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> 
>> On 9 Jul 2018, at 17:14, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> 
>> With the help of Esteban I got one step further. If I do
>> 
>> MCWorkingCopy
>> managersForClass: ZnFileSystemUtils
>> do: [ :each | each ancestry initialize ]
>> 
>> before loading my project it updates Zinc-FileSystem as well. Sadly it
>> still does not work for me because I get
>> 
>> Loading baseline of BaselineOfMobilityMap...
>> ...RETRY->BaselineOfParasol
>> ...RETRY->BaselineOfParasol[31mError: can't find EOCD position
>> 
>> and I don’t know why. zip file is downloaded from github and present but
>> it fails and only on my jenkins on linux. On my Mac this works.
>> 
>> I try a few things but then I’m back on pharo6.1 for the time being :(
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> Am 07.07.2018 um 13:28 schrieb Norbert Hartl [email protected]:
>> 
>> Really? I thought the same but then I didn’t believe it works like that.
>> 
>> Anyway this would be very easy to solve. We just need to ask Sven if he is
>> fine with doing an empty .16 version for Zinc-FileSystem and does an
>> in-place version reset of 2.9.2 or a new 2.9.3. I’m not fully convinced
>> that will solve it but the cost won’t be very high.
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> Am 07.07.2018 um 13:22 schrieb Cyril Ferlicot [email protected]:
>> 
>> Need to investigate more. There are two .15 versions but there is 1 year
>> in between (if you didn’t notice TheIntegratior.15 is from 2017). Just want
>> to have more context information because I can only see that this is
>> strange but lacking insight.
>> 
>> I’m trying to figure out why it does not update Zinc-FileSystem. No matter
>> what I do I cannot get Metacello to load the newer package. That would fix
>> the issue because I’m loading 2.9.2 which should have
>> Zinc-FileSystem-SVC.15 and not stay on the one included in the image.
>> 
>> I think this is important for everyone that has a product based on 6.1 and
>> that want to migrate someday to pharo7. This way it is impossible to do it
>> step by step.
>> 
>> If there is a package .15 in the image and a package .15 in the repo, I
>> think Metacello will not update because it rely on the numbers to know when
>> to update. If it find a .15 and currently have a .15 I think Metacello will
>> think they are at the same version.
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> --
>> Cyril Ferlicot
>> https://ferlicot.fr
>> 
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