Re: Tip: Recovering a broken image
Posted by
Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 on
Oct 24, 2013; 11:53am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Tip-Recovering-a-broken-image-tp4716821p4716822.html
Hi Bernat,
Interesting, I never heard of #backupTo:
But if recover.image is a copy of MyImage.image, and that last one failed to start up, why then would the copy not have the same problem ?
Sven
On 24 Oct 2013, at 13:32, Bernat Romagosa <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've just recovered a broken image that crashed upon startup. There was some problem with a SerialPort that stayed open and tried to write/read into a physical port that didn't exist no more, or something of the sort.
>
> So here's the magic line:
>
> $ bin/myVm shared/MyImage.image eval "SmalltalkImage backupTo: 'recover'"
>
> This makes a copy of the image into a new image called "recover.image", but as the documentation states:
>
> Unlike #saveAs: do not transfer the default execution to the new image.
>
> So there you go!
>
> Hope it helps someone else. :)
>
> --
> Bernat Romagosa.