Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!corton!irisa!boissier From: boissier@irisa.fr (franck boissiere) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: St80 and SunOS 4.1.1 Message-ID: <1991Apr15.072333.25315@irisa.fr> Date: 15 Apr 91 07:23:33 GMT References: Sender: news@irisa.fr Organization: IRISA, Rennes (FR) Lines: 27 From article , by khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw): > In <1991Apr11.141747.1347@irisa.fr> boissier@irisa.fr (franck boissiere) writes: > >>I just upgraded to SunOS 4.1.1 and I found some "bugs". > >>When running the 2.5 version of Smalltalk-80 I have often messages such as >>snapshot primitive failed due to platform. Sometime the snapshots are good >>sometimes they are not. > > This is caused by a bug in the write(2) system call in SunOS 4.1.1 > and only affects saving snapshots to a filesystem on a local disk. > Sun has recently developed a patch for the problem. Request the patch > for bug ID 1052649. While this happens a lot on a local disk, it sometimes happens on a SparcStation1 with no disk and served by a Sun3/260. But I got it only twice in this case whereas I got tens of errors on platform with local disk. One additionnal question: Is the snapshot really corrupted or may I use it. (My guess is that if I have a primitiveFailed error while in Smalltalk I should save is again, and if I have only the error message after exiting the VM the image might be correct) -- Franck BOISSIERE boissier@irisa.irisa.fr C.C.E.T.T. B.P. 59 boissiere@ccett.fr 35512 CESSON SEVIGNE CEDEX FRANCE