Loading FFI crashes my VM

> Hi all,
>
> While installing FFI on a fresh Squeak4.5-12568 image,
> CogMT.app-13.22.2732 segvs. Attached is crash.dmp.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. Download those versions of Cog and Squeak.
> 2. Open the image.
> 3. Open a workspace.
> 4. Paste the following:
>
>    (Installer repository: 'http://source.squeak.org/FFI')
>    install: 'FFI-Pools';
>    install: 'FFI-Kernel';
>    install: 'FFI-Tests'.
>
> 5. Select all in the workspace.
> 6. Doit.
>
> A normal progress meter will appear and eventually the VM will crash
> mid-way through the load.
>
> Regards,
>  Tony
> <crash.dmp>

> On 13 June 2013 19:04, Tony Garnock-Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On 2013-06-13 4:15 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>>> I'll need to check by hand but I don't see errors for FFI in the latest ExternalPackages build (which uses the above VM + latest updated image).
>>
>> It seems to have been something to do with the image at update 12568 in
>> particular. Updating the image from there to the latest (12782) lets FFI
>> and Crypto-Nacl load OK, without crashing the VM. Sorry for the noise,
>> and thanks for the pointer to check out the latest stuff!
>
> Mm, this is tickling a memory. I do vaguely recall something about
> there being a time where you had to be careful which image & version
> you used. Maybe Eliot remembers?
>
>> (Perhaps http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.5-12568.zip could be
>> removed/replaced/updated?)
>
> That's a good idea. http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.5-12641.zip is now up.
>
> (I managed to break the update number logic: the Official (tm) latest
> update number is 12641, and of course your local number is well past
> that. Someone else - Chris Cunnington? - reported a past-the-tip
> update number as well. Levente Uzonyi doesn't see an easy way out of
> the hole I dug.)
>
> frank
>
>> Regards,
>>   Tony