Problems Pharo 3.0 & Windows 8.1 (64 Bit)

> Dear all,
>
> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo and then restarting
> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!) crashes and restarts.
>
> No Problems under Windows 7.
>
> Looks like a Problem with the VM.
>
> Has someone else seen this behavior under Win 8.1?
>
> BW,
> Volkert
>
> --
> www.nivoba.de
>
> "The more complex an object, the larger the investment in learning to use it, and the greater the resistance to abandon it.", NW
>
>

> Dear all,
>
> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo and then restarting
> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!) crashes and restarts.
>
> No Problems under Windows 7.
>
> Looks like a Problem with the VM.
>
> Has someone else seen this behavior under Win 8.1?
>
> BW,
> Volkert
>
> --
> www.nivoba.de
>
> "The more complex an object, the larger the investment in learning to use it, and the greater the resistance to abandon it.", NW
>
>

> My children have a Windows 8.1 (64-bit) machine, last time I checked Pharo ran fine (actually this video was done in VirtualBox) :
>
>    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKokxrQtrg0
>
> I could check again tonight, but I suspect it will just work.
>
> On 25 Aug 2014, at 17:34, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo and then restarting
>> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
>> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!) crashes and restarts.
>>
>> No Problems under Windows 7.
>>
>> Looks like a Problem with the VM.
>>
>> Has someone else seen this behavior under Win 8.1?
>>
>> BW,
>> Volkert
>>
>> --
>> www.nivoba.de
>>
>> "The more complex an object, the larger the investment in learning to use it, and the greater the resistance to abandon it.", NW
>>
>>
>

> Can you have a look at the PharoDebug.log file?
>
> Maybe we can find the cause there.
>
> Regards,
> Phil
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:01 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:
> @Esteban, Phil & Sven: The bad thing is, that it does not happen all the time, so a better description of is not possible. I will try to figure out under which conditions this behavior occurs and hope to give you a better description.
>
> If someone found a strange behavior similar to mine, he/she should give me a note.
>
> BW,
> Volkert
>
>
> Am 26.08.2014 um 14:37 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe:
> My children have a Windows 8.1 (64-bit) machine, last time I checked Pharo ran fine (actually this video was done in VirtualBox) :
>
>    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKokxrQtrg0
>
> I could check again tonight, but I suspect it will just work.
>
> On 25 Aug 2014, at 17:34, [hidden email] wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo and then restarting
> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!) crashes and restarts.
>
> No Problems under Windows 7.
>
> Looks like a Problem with the VM.
>
> Has someone else seen this behavior under Win 8.1?
>
> BW,
> Volkert
>
> --
> www.nivoba.de
>
> "The more complex an object, the larger the investment in learning to use it, and the greater the resistance to abandon it.", NW
>
>
>
>
> --
> www.nivoba.de
>
> "The more complex an object, the larger the investment in learning to use it, and the greater the resistance to abandon it.", NW
>
>
>
>

> Dear all,
>
> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit
> Pharo and then restarting
> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!)
> crashes and restarts.
>
> No Problems under Windows 7.
>
> Looks like a Problem with the VM.
>
> Has someone else seen this behavior under Win 8.1?
>
> BW,
> Volkert
>

>
> Hi,
>
> No problem for me with Windows 8.1 (64 bits) and Pharo 3, I use it
> every day.
> If your computer crashes, I would suspect some hardware related issue,
> not a vm problem.
> Did you check in the system event log ?
>  (right click on computer icon in the file explorer, choose manage
> then go in system tools/events log and see the system and widows logs)
>
> HTH
>
> regards,
>
> Alain
>
>
>

> Hi Volkert,
>
> I don't have Win 8.1 64-bit to test on, but to help reproducibility for
> others, could you provide the exact downloads you are using for VM and
> Image.
>
> Do you end up with a PharoDebug.log or crash.dmp file in any Pharo folder?
>
> cheers -ben
>
>

> Hi!
>
> On 08/25/2014 05:34 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo
>> and then restarting
>> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
>> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!)
>> crashes and restarts.
>
> Some antivirus active?
>
> regards, Göran
>
>

> Hi!
>
> On 08/25/2014 05:34 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> i have problems with Pharo 3.0 under Win 8.1 (64 Bit). When i quit Pharo
>> and then restarting
>> the it, Pharo-VM and Windows hangs. After some time (2-3 Minutes), the
>> Pharo VM File Dialog opens. From time to time the Windows Desktop (!)
>> crashes and restarts.
>
> Some antivirus active?
>
> regards, Göran
>
>