[plt-dev] EMERGENCY: drscheme no longer works in today's svn head

From: Ryan Culpepper (ryanc at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 27 17:41:09 EDT 2009

One more note: the problem occurs even when PLTNOTOOLS is set.

Ryan


On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote:

> On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>
>>
>> Switching to Module in drscheme immediately produces this error  
>> message
>>
>>> Welcome to DrScheme, version 4.2.1.7-svn27aug2009 [3m].
>>> Language: Module; memory limit: 256 megabytes.
>>> Module Language: invalid module text
>>> send: no such method: locate-frame for class: %
>>
>> and it disables all buttons except for STOP. Clicking stop doesn't  
>> help the least.
>
> I get the same error. Some more notes:
>
> By a combination of kills and breaks (a final break seems  
> necessary...?) I was able to kill the evaluation. When I switched  
> the language to Pretty Big, I got a "read found code compiled for  
> 4.2.1.6, wanted 4.2.1.7" (paraphrased because it is no longer in  
> front of me). I have no idea what code in particular it's taking  
> about.
>
> My conjecture is that Robby's commit (r15795) is responsible for the  
> error message that actually gets shown ('locate-frame' occurs  
> nowhere else in the collects, as far as I can tell), but there seems  
> to be an underlying problem. That is, there's an error reporting the  
> real error.
>
> I had run a full setup-plt immediately before starting DrScheme, so  
> somewhere code is not getting recompiled. I'm currently in the  
> middle of a "setup-plt -c; setup-plt" cycle.
>
> Ryan
>
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