2009/10/2 Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>

>  Mariano,
>
> Actually, I bought a laptop for two reasons: (1) they "went and got cheap"
> while I wasn't looking, so there was absolutely no reason for me not to have
> one at these prices and capabilities; (2) to put Ubuntu on it so I'd have a
> Linux box with me.
>
> The bottom line: a segmentation fault.  I saved the text to a file and will
> check it for anything that I dare not release (passwords, etc.) and then can
> post it if it will help.
>
> There has been no debug log that I can find, at least not associated with
> these crashes - like I said, they're ugly.  The two worst things, IMHO, that
> a computer can do are freeze, and a close second is to simply quit w/o
> saying why.
>
> Understood about a bug in ODBC, but that does not explain why the earlier
> image has no troubles.  I might have not loaded things correctly, maybe
> there is a new version of the package that breaks something.  However, Pharo
> should give me some clues vs. just rolling over and disappearing from RAM
> w/o a trace.
>
> Respectfully, I do think it is a Pharo/FFI problem, if only that something
> can crash it so easily and completely with no diagnostic data.
>

There was once a problem with FFI in Pharo where the solution was to
recreate the array of special objects again. To do that, just evaluate:

Smalltalk recreateSpecialObjectsArray

I don't know, but try it. Perhaps there is a problem with that, but I don't
think so.


>
> More to come, and I like Indian food, so if I have to eat crow, I'd
> appreciate a good hot vindaloo :)
>
> Minor disagreements aside, THANKS for your reply.  The command-line idea
> was very helpful (I should have thought of it, and will next time).
>

Yeah, if you are in Linux, it is always better to run these things from
command line ;)


>
> Bill
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mariano
> Martinez Peck
> *Sent:* Friday, October 02, 2009 7:10 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Pharo-project] Ugly crashes in 09.09.3 - any ideas?
>
>
>
> 2009/10/2 Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>
>
>>  I moved my code into 09.09.3 web, and it is crashing badly - the vm just
>> dies, no indication (that I have found) as to why.  Reminds me of working in
>> C on 16 bit systems  =:(
>>
>>
>
> If you are in Linux, run it from command line so that you cansee the output
> on it ?  If you are in Windows, you can see the dump file ?.
>
> what about the PharoDebug.log ?
>
>
>>  By sneaking up on the crash, I see that it is quitting when asking
>> ODBCConnection to connect.
>>
>
> Please, don't understand me wrong, but probably you have a "bug" in your
> ODBC driver. I have A LOT of segmentation faults while developing SqueakDBX.
> And ALWAYS was mine problem (wrong order of calls, or whatever) or an
> OpenDBX (ODBC C library in your case) problem.
>
> I don't think it is a FFI or Pharo related problem.
>
>
>>    At one point, just inspecting a handle is enough to blow away the vm.
>> Suggestions would be appreciated.  I might set up a new image with just ODBC
>> to try to reproduce it.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah. Take a clean and latest PharoCore and try to load it there.
>
> Best,
>
> Mariano
>
>
>>  Bill
>>
>>
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