[self-interest] Corrupt Clear.snap and demo.snap on Leopard

[David Ungar]

Suggest you build a new snapshot from scratch, by typing in 

'all2.self' _RunScript

Assuming you have the .self files. 

- David
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On May 27, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Galen <gltmailbox-self at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've just downloaded and installed Self for the first time on my PowerMac G5 running Leopard 10.5.8. 
> 
> At the shell prompt, the VM seems to work: 
> 
> $ self
> Self Virtual Machine Version 4.1.13, Sat 22 Nov 03 15:04:49 Mac OSX
> Copyright 1989-2003: The Self Group (type _Credits for credits)
> 
> for PPC:  FastMapTest = false
> for PPC:  LogVMMessages = true
> for PPC:  PrintScriptName  = true
> for PPC:  Inline = true
> for PPC:  SICDeferUncommonBranches = false
> for PPC:  SICReplaceOnStack = false
> for PPC:  SaveOutgoingArgumentsOfPatchedFrames = true
> VM#^D
> $ 
> 
> But if I try to load a snapshot, either Clean.snap or demo.snap, I get this: 
> 
> $  self -s /library/self/0/Demo-4.4.snap
> Self VM fatal error (/Users/russellallen/Git-All/vm/mac_osx/vm_project/../../src/any/memory/universe.cpp, line 544): Snapshot is corrupt near: New generation
> , file position: 0xffffffff
> 
> VM Version: 4.1.13, Sat 22 Nov 03 15:04:49 Mac OSX
> 
> Self process 19263 on GLTMac-2.local has crashed.
> Do you want to:
>    1) Quit Self (optionally attempting to write a snapshot)
>    2) Try to print the Self stack
>    3) Try to return to the Self prompt
>    4) Force a core dump
>    5) Print the interrupted context registers
> Your choice: 1
> Enter snapshot name (hit return to omit snapshot) > 
> No snapshot specified, will skip this step
> $
> 
> Some google searching turned up a problem that at first glance looked similar, but it appeared to be Windows-specific. It had to do with unix vs. windows line termination. 
> 
> Ideas on this one? 
> 
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