How do I debug a MNU in Pharo-6.0

> Ben,
>
> Thanks for the responses ... I've just tried it again using a freshly
> downloaded Pharo6.0 (60265) and using filetree instead of gitfiletree
> on my mac (my earlier attempt was using on older Pharo6.0 on Linux)
> --- so I had installed gitfiletree into the linux image at some point
> apparently...
>
> Anyway on the mac, the informs stayed visible long enough for me to
> grab one and here is the message that I'm getting now:
>
>   OmFileStoreWritingError: this store is locked
>
> Oh and I did get a debugger on the mac so I'm in business ...
>
> I tried the linux test again with the same older version of Pharo
> (60208) using filetree:// instead of gitfiletree:// and got the same
> result (no debugger), but running over x from home, the informs did
> not disappear so quickly and here is the message:
>
>   Ombu: Couldn't write entry, since MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of
> "ifTrue:ifFalse:" is nil
>
> I just downloaded 60265 for linux and tried again using filetree://
> and got a debugger and a slew of informs with the message:
>
>   OmFileStoreWritingError: this store is locked
>
> Soooo, the problem appears to be fixed in the latest Pharo6.0 with the
> exception of the flood of OmFileStoreWritingError messages...
>
> I did try catching Error, but that didn't work either ... the inform:
> was swallowing the error without doing a pass --- perhaps that was the
> fix...
>
> Anyway, thanks for your time and I appreciate your help,
>
> Dale
>
> On 10/20/16 3:03 AM, Ben Coman wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Dale Henrichs
>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> I am trying to debug a problem that showed up loading my version of
>>>> STON
>>>> into Pharo-6.0. ON Travis, I see the error message[1]:
>>>>
>>>>    MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "ifTrue:ifFalse:" is nil
>>>>
>>>> The code is loading and passing tests in Pharo-5.0, 4.0, 3.0 and
>>>> several
>>>> versions of GemStone, so I am interested in bringing up a debugger...
>>>>
>>>> I cloned [hidden email]:GsDevKit/ston.git and checked out the
>>>> gs_port branch
>>>> into the directory
>>>> /export/foos1/users/dhenrich/dev/_home/server/stones/m_340/git/ston.
>>>>
>>>> But when I run the following code in a Pharo-6.0 image using the
>>>> Playground
>>>> by pressing the green arrow:
>>>>
>>>>    Metacello new
>>>>      baseline: 'Ston';
>>>>      repository:
>>>> 'gitfiletree:///export/foos1/users/dhenrich/dev/_home/server/stones/m_340/git/ston/repository';
>>>>
>>>>      load: #( 'UTF8' 'Tests')
>>>>
>>>> I do not get the expected MNU in a debugger -- but I do see a bunch
>>>> of infos
>>>> popping up during the execution but they fade too quickly for me to
>>>> actually
>>>> read them --- there were 8 or more popups --- and I got the
>>>> impression that
>>>> they involved the ifTrue:ifFalse:, but danged if I know how to
>>>> debug the
>>>> problem ...
>> Alternatively, maybe put a haltOnce in each of the six implementors
>> of #inform:
>>
>> cheers -ben
>>
>>>> I must have missed the memo that tells me how to get a debugger up in
>>>> Pharo-6.0 ...
>>> Maybe from commandline try...
>>> [ Metacello new
>>>      baseline: 'Ston';
>>>      repository:
>>> 'gitfiletree:///export/foos1/users/dhenrich/dev/_home/server/stones/m_340/git/ston/repository';
>>>
>>>      load: #( 'UTF8' 'Tests')
>>> ] on: Error do: [ :err | err debug ].
>>>
>>> (If I try it myself in Pharo 6 I get ZnUnknownScheme.  I guess I need
>>> to load gitfiletree separately)
>>>
>>> cheers -ben
>