Within WorldState>>doOneCycle,
try writing to a file every second,
and at the command line use...    tail -f ...
to see if it keeps writing when the screen is frozen.

And also try writing to a file in a forked process.

cheers -ben

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> But it is a freeze or a screen refresh problem?
> Can you try to command . heavily on your frozen image?
>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ted,
> >
> > You might consider building a debug VM.  There is a random chance it
> > provides useful insight.
> > At its simplest all you need to do is...
> > $ git clone https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git
> > $ cd opensmalltalk-vm/build.macos32x86/pharo.cog.spur
> > $ ./mvm -A
> >
> > taken from...
> > https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-
> vm/blob/Cog/build.macos32x86/HowToBuild
> >
> > First confirm the problem still exists in each of three generated VMs
> > started normally,
> > then later try using lldb to trace what methods are executed.
> > (though I'm not familiar with lldb - you'll need to google some
> tutorials)
> >
> > cheers -ben
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:55 PM, TedVanGaalen <ted...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Ben,
> >> Did the following
> >> - restoring Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libFT2Plugin.dylib (by
> >> renaming its extension back to .dylib)
> >> - started Pharo
> >> -setting use Free type ON
> >> -setting Update fonts at start ON
> >>
> >>    it then immediately starts loading fonts, (which I thought might be a
> >> good idea
> >>  because perhaps fonts were not completely loaded in the image,
> >> but that didn’t make any difference)
> >>
> >> -saved and quit
> >> -fired up Pharo again.
> >>
> >> didn’t help. Same problems occur
> >>
> >> then:  (as you have asked)
> >>
> >> - started Pharo again
> >> -setting use Free type OFF
> >> -setting Update fonts at start OFF
> >> -saved and quit
> >> -fired up Pharo again.
> >>
> >> didn’t help either
> >>
> >> I have no idea what the cause might be,
> >> but if you have other suggestions to test
> >> I be glad to help. (if not a thousand attempts :o)
> >>
> >> in the mean time I use 5 until a next release comes out 7 ? that works
> ok.
> >>
> >> kind regards
> >> TedvG
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 25. Aug 2017, at 06:07, Ben Coman [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> What happens if you untick "Use FreeType" in System > Settings?
> >>
> >> cheers -ben
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:06 PM, TedVanGaalen <<a
> >> href="x-msg://1/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&amp;node=4963983&amp;i=0"
> >> target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external" class="">[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> yes, after full screen -> normal window -> minimise -> reshow it did.
> >>> (not in any particular order, tried al those before as well)
> >>>
> >>> TedvG
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 24. Aug 2017, at 15:46, EstebanLM [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> and image still freezing?
> >>>
> >>> Esteban
> >>>
> >>> On 24 Aug 2017, at 15:28, TedVanGaalen <<a href="<a
> >>> href="x-msg://3/user/"
> >>> class="">x-msg://3/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&amp;
> node=4963878&amp;i=0"
> >>> target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external" class="">[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Esteban,
> >>> unfortunately that doesn’t make any difference.
> >>> What I did:
> >>> extension temporarily renamed to …..wasAdylib
> >>> Started Pharo app by clikcing on it (gets the downloaded  maiden image)
> >>> then:
> >>> “FT2Error:Freetype2 primitive failed [error -1][can’t get error
> string]”
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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