I think somebody that maintains the website needs to replace the VM that is linked on the download page with the latest VM built in Jenkins.
I had the same issues but when I switched to the latest built on Jenkins, I had no issues anymore. On 20 Jan 2012, at 22:31, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > On which machines are working your students? > Because on mac we do not see any problems. > BTW do you machine (windows) have tune off the virus check because this is > often a cause for trouble. > > >> The latest COG VM, pointed to from the Pharo-project download page, >> CogVM-*-13307.zip, seems to be a little unstable. Many students have been >> reporting that it just hangs while doing nothing more than editing (not >> saving) text, and I have seen long hangs while doing trivial things — these >> look to me like synchronization bugs. >> >> The COG that I used about a year ago (Jann–March 2011 timeframe), in >> contrast, seemed rock solid, although it might have been slower. >> >> I have two questions. First, where can I find an archive of PRE_BUILT VMs. >> I don't want to give my students (or myself) the task of building a VM from >> scratch. >> >> Second, how can I find out what version of COG I'm running? SmalltalkImage >> current versionLabel doesn't work. SmalltalkImage current buildDate gives >> me a date, but how does that relate to the version numbers that I see in on >> the COG web site? >> >> Thanks. I want my students to have a good starting experience with Pharo, >> and they are not. They are messing around trying to retrieve source from >> hosed images :-( > > This is really strange because we work all with Pharo like mad and we do not > experience that and some of us are really doing crazy think like swapping > class and their instances out of the image, or generation assembly on the > fly, or changing the event loop… > > >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> > >
