Pharo image won't launch and doesn't give an error

[gregaz]

Describe the bug I saved my Advent of Code image, closed it, and tried to relaunch and it fails to relaunch silently.

To Reproduce Not sure, image must be corrupted, but it doesn't give an error when I attempt to launch. Copies of the image won't launch either.

Expected behavior The image launches or gives an error why it doesn't launch.

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.

Version information:

• OS: Windows
• Version: Pharo 11.0 64bit (stable)

Expected development cost No idea

Additional context I was able to recover my changes from the change files, but the corrupted image still doesn't launch and doesn't give an indication of why it doesn't launch.

[Ducasse]

You can still rescue all your code so do not throw away your folder. OK I saw that you did not lose your code.

[Ducasse]

This is difficult for us to know what is happening. Could you reproduce this behavior?

[gregaz]

I can reproduce it with my image file, but Github doesn't seem to allow me to add a file over 25 mb here, and it is 34 mb compressed. Is there a better way for me to share an image?

[guillep]

There is the french state file sender utility that you could try? https://filesender.renater.fr/

FileSender

[gregaz]

Looks like you need to be affiliated with a French educational organization to use that site, but I'm not from France :(

[gregaz]

Advent Of Code 2023 - ded.txt Winrar actually got it small enough hah! I attached the image file compressed as a .rar, but I had to rename it to .txt because Github doesn't allow .rar files :/

[demarey]

Indeed, it looks like your image is corrupted. Trying to run the image from the terminal gives this error:

 ~/Documents/Pharo/vms/110-x64/Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Pharo `Advent Of Code 2023 -  ded.image`
[ERROR] 2023-12-14 15:31:20.000 basicImageFileRead (src/imageAccess.c:92):fread: Invalid argument
[ERROR] 2023-12-14 15:31:20.000 error (src/debug.c:45):Read failed or premature end of image file

VM Error Thu Dec 14 15:31:20 2023

You can try in a cmd.exe terminal on windows to see if you have the same error.

For now, it is difficult for Pharo Launcher to get errors in launched images because a process is spawn and Pharo Launcher does not listen to it to get outputs.

[gregaz]

Gotcha, thanks for looking into this and appreciate everyone supporting this project :) This would be a feature request to have the Pharo Launcher show errors, I was confused by the silent failures.

[demarey]

I will close the issue as it is not possible for now to implement the feature for getting back errors from a spawned process.