Hi Cyril,

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 1:50 AM, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferlicot@gmail.com

wrote:

Le 23/03/2018 à 21:52, Eliot Miranda a écrit :

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Hi Damien,

Indeed the image is corrupt at start-up. See below.

Right. This VM is prior to the bug fixes in VMMaker.oscog-eem.2320:

Spur: Fix a bad bug in SpurPlnningCompactor. unmarkObjectsFromFirstFreeObject, used when the compactor requires more than one pass due to insufficient savedFirstFieldsSpace, expects the corpse of a moved object to be unmarked, but copyAndUnmarkObject:to:bytes:firstField: only unmarked the target. Unmarking the corpse before the copy unmarks both. This fixes a crash with ReleaseBuilder class>>saveAsNewRelease when non-use of cacheDuring: creates lots of files, enough to push the system into the multi-pass

regime.

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Pharo urgently needs to upgrade the VM to one more up to date than 2017 08 27 (in fact more up-to-date than opensmalltalk/vm commit 0fe1e1ea108e53501a0e728736048062c83a66ce, Fri Jan 19 13:17:57 2018 -0800). The bug that VMMaker.oscog-eem.2320 fixes can result in image corruption in large images, and can occur (as it has here) at start-up, causing one's work to be irretrievably lost.

Hi Eliot,

I think that there is a lot of people who would like to get a newer stable vm for Pharo 6.1 and 7. The problem is that it is hard to know which VM are stable enough to be promoted as stable.

Some weeks ago Esteban tried to promote a VM as stable and he had to revert it the same day because a regression occurred in the VM.

If you're able to tell us which vms are stable in those present at http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur32/ and http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur64/ it would be a great help.

Even better would be for the pharo community to have a way to know which vms are stable or not without having to ask you.

The way to do that is to run tests on the CI infrastructure and mark VMs that pass the tests as stable. That;s what happens on travis with the Cog VMs built there.

Have a nice day.

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-- _,,,^..^,,,_ best, Eliot

-- Cyril Ferlicot https://ferlicot.fr