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Re: Aaaaaaarrrggg!!! Broken Image?

Posted by Blair McGlashan-3 on Feb 17, 2005; 9:42pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Aaaaaaarrrggg-Broken-Image-tp3373131p3373146.html

"Christopher J. Demers" <[hidden email]> wrote in
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> "Blair McGlashan" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>> Lastly it is worth remembering that almost all apparently damaged images
>> are recoverable. Sometimes it requires a good deal of knowledge to
>> achieve, and it frequently makes more sense to start with ones latest
>> backup and reapply changes from the change log using the chunk browser.
>> The decision as to whether to recover, or rebuild from a backup, depends
>> on the relative effort involved. Each case will be different. If you do
>> want to attempt recovery then it is useful to know that if you put a file
>> called 'postfix.st' into the image directory, that the system will
>> attempt to file this in (as a chunked Smalltalk script) at a very early
>> stage in the startup. This can be useful for repairing damage that
>> prevents the image from even starting up. A very useful expression to
>> insert in it in that circumstance is:
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> I think you meant to say 'prestart.st' rather than 'postfix.st', unless
> there is another early load file I have not discovered yet.

Thanks Chris, you're right, I did mean "prestart.st". I'm confusing it with
one of the files we use in booting the image initially.

Regards

Blair