2011/12/2 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> We had a look and the problem is that printOn: on Stream is defined to
> print the contents of the Stream even though it might
> not be initialized yet (e.g. when creating a Stream instance with #basicNew).
>
> The simplest solution is to just not print the contents of Streams in 
> #printOn:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5047
>
>        Stream should not print its contents in printOn:
>
> Reason:
>
> => Debugging leads to change the state of Stream when looking at it
> => Network streams load all content
> => unitialized Streams has undefined behavior for printing
>
> Solution: remove #printOn:
>

No, no, no I don't agree, you are hiding the main problem, not solving it.
The main problem is not this error, the main problem is that the
debugger does not appear when it should.

Nicolas

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Stéphane Ducasse
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I only had a look in Pharo 1.4
>>>>> It sounds like a subtle bug related to introduction of
>>>>> SubclassResponsibility in Pharo.
>>>>> If you revert Object>>subclassResponsibility to its previous version
>>>>> you get a more reliable error.
>>>>
>>>> What would be your hypothesis? Because I'm stuck.
>>>> error: is also signaling an exception
>>>>
>>>> error: aString
>>>>        "Throw a generic Error exception."
>>>>
>>>>        ^Error new signal: aString
>>>>
>>>> So I wonder why one is more robust.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm stuck too, and the Debugger is currently unusable in Pharo 1.4 (I
>>> just can't step over…)
>>
>> Strange. Because I use it.
>> Do you have a scenario that we can focus on to fix the problem you see.
>>
>>
>>> I give up. I only had time for an easy task...
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nicolas
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/12/1 Larry White <[email protected]>:
>>>>>> I was able to replicate with a clean version of the Seaside 3.0.6 One 
>>>>>> Click
>>>>>> download by executing Stream #basicNew in a workspace.  It did work a 
>>>>>> couple
>>>>>> times ok using "do it" from the menu, but seems to lock pretty regularly
>>>>>> using print or explore keyboard shortcuts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Larry White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can do it with control-P (print) in the Workspace.  I just did it 
>>>>>>> with a
>>>>>>> single try, though sometimes it takes more than one.  Speed isn't an 
>>>>>>> issue,
>>>>>>> I can wait 10 minutes and see it happen sometimes..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have to take a break now, but when I get a few minutes, I'll try again
>>>>>>> with a fresh install of the latest Seaside one-click for the mac.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just tried to hang 1.1.1 (using a traditional linux vm) and a 1.4 
>>>>>>>> image
>>>>>>>> with a Cog vm (also linux).  No problems, but I do have questions that 
>>>>>>>> might
>>>>>>>> be important to others trying to reproduce it:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (1) how fast do you do this?
>>>>>>>> (2) do you inspect the instances, or just let them get gc'd 
>>>>>>>> immediately?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>> [[email protected]] on behalf of Larry White
>>>>>>>> [[email protected]]
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:56 PM
>>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] VM freezes sending #basicNew to Stream
>>>>>>>> subclass
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can do it with
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stream basicNew.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but I have to invoke it twice. The first time it works ok.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> gary
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> can you post the smallest code that makes the system hangs?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Stef
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Larry White wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Throwing this out there because it may be a bug.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm running the Seaside one-click install on OS X Lion.
>>>>>>>>>> Pharo1.3
>>>>>>>>>> Latest update: #13302
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I can reliably cause my VM to freeze up and need to Force-Quit it 
>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>> the OS.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm implementing (copying) the probability logic from the blue book.
>>>>>>>>>> When I tried to create an instance of the Binomial class, the system 
>>>>>>>>>> hung. I
>>>>>>>>>> can replicate the problem by sending the message #basicNew to
>>>>>>>>>> ProbabilityDistribution. ProbabilityDistribution is a direct 
>>>>>>>>>> subclass of
>>>>>>>>>> Stream and I haven't overridden or modified #basicNew.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What's happening is that it fails in the BlockClosure [anObject 
>>>>>>>>>> doit],
>>>>>>>>>> but only when I instantiate a member of this particular class 
>>>>>>>>>> hierarchy. In
>>>>>>>>>> the probability classes, a #doIt in a Workspace hits the line "self 
>>>>>>>>>> suspend"
>>>>>>>>>> in the #terminate method of Process and the VM hangs there.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I believe they had ProbabilityDistribution subclass from Stream
>>>>>>>>>> because sampling from a distribution is like reading from a Stream, 
>>>>>>>>>> but I
>>>>>>>>>> don't think any there's any actual shared code, so I switched the 
>>>>>>>>>> superclass
>>>>>>>>>> of ProbabilityDistribution to Object and the code works fine now.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Larry
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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