Windows disappear in saved image on startup

Hello,
  So, I have saved some Pharo 1.0 images, Pharo-1.8.image, for example, that contains a lot of
changes that I have made, and packages that I have loaded.

  Now, when I bring up one of my saved images, I see all the windows the way they were for
about three seconds, and then they all disappear. The image is still running but has none of the
code I loaded. I tried to interrupt the image in startup (Command . on my Mac) but have been
unsuccessful.

  Is there any way I can fix this problem? I have seven images that all display the same
problem. I'm on Pharo 1.0 and running in an Amazon EC2 micro instance.

  Regards,

  Larry

  Anyone?

Sorry, I have no idea :(




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Can you put the image up online?

  Sorry, I can't upload the image. Is there any way to stop the startup sequence?
Something is removing all of my projects and closing all the windows.

  Larry

The startup list is processed before you can do a user interrupt. The only way I know of to stop before that is to compile a debug version of the VM and set a breakpoint on the VM side.

See http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Oops-I-put-a-halt-in-a-startup-method-td3800729.html 

Sean

Since the .changes files (together with the .sources file) contains all your changes, have you tried to get a fresh image of the same version and open it with the .changes file of one of your problematic images?

Max


On 30.10.2011, at 05:04, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

  Thanks Max! Yes, I realized yesterday that everything is contained in the .changes file. I will try to use my latest .changes file with a new image and see if I can get it to open. I'll report my results.

  Larry

  Well, that doesn't seem to work, using the original Pharo-1.0 image with the latest changes still results in the same bug at startup. Perhaps I will try to build a debug image, or figure out how to reapply all of the changes from the .changes file on top of a 1.3 image and hope I have better luck.

  Larry

Did you publish your packages?

On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Larry Kellogg wrote:

I do not see why and how this is possible. If you code was loaded and the image saved.

> I tried to interrupt the image in startup (Command . on my
> Mac) but have been
> unsuccessful.
>
>  Is there any way I can fix this problem? I have seven images that all
> display the same
> problem. I'm on Pharo 1.0 and running in an Amazon EC2 micro instance.

can you put an image somewhere?

Stef

Hello Stef,
  Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the delay in responding. I have been working on a local copy of Pharo. I will have to get back to the Amazon instance at some point in the near future. It would be great if I didn't have to start from scratch.

>> Did you publish your packages?

  No, I did not publish my packages. They're not for public consumption, at least not in their current state.


On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Larry Kellogg wrote:

> Hello,
>  So, I have saved some Pharo 1.0 images, Pharo-1.8.image, for example, that
> contains a lot of
> changes that I have made, and packages that I have loaded.
>
>  Now, when I bring up one of my saved images, I see all the windows the way
> they were for
> about three seconds, and then they all disappear. The image is still running
> but has none of the
> code I loaded.
... [show rest of quote]

>>I do not see why and how this is possible. If you code was loaded and the image saved.

  I am also puzzled by this behavior. Perhaps I will post a short video that shows how all of the windows coming up, with the state saved correctly, and then, a second later, everything disappearing. It is a frustrating bug. I have saved numerous images and they all show the same problem.

> I tried to interrupt the image in startup (Command . on my
> Mac) but have been
> unsuccessful.
>
>  Is there any way I can fix this problem? I have seven images that all
> display the same
> problem. I'm on Pharo 1.0 and running in an Amazon EC2 micro instance.

>>can you put an image somewhere?

  Let me think about it. I don't want to make my code public, at this time.

Larry