[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3

From: Doug Williams (m.douglas.williams at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 09:02:40 EDT 2012

I downloaded the pre-release built Thursday, July 26, 2012, 13:30 EDT,
which had the same filename as the previous version. I get exactly the
same crash on Windows XP 32-bit as before.

Doug

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Doug: Can you test your program again with the release build that just
> completed? (Sorry it wasn't available sooner.)
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On 07/25/2012 02:39 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
>>
>> And one last post on this. Now it is reliably running. I'm assuming
>> once I got a .zo of the offending module actually built, from then on
>> I'm okay as long as I don't play around with it. Does that make sense?
>>
>> And, just to test that, I deleted the compiled directory and the weird
>> behavior comes back. I (re-)load it and hit run enough times until I
>> get it to start and from then on it starts fine. [Although I'm not
>> sure I should actually trust it - but it seems to be running fine
>> after that.]
>>
>> Doug - done with experimenting for the day - Williams
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Doug Williams
>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> And, actually I was premature with the "I have a work around for
>>> Windows XP". Sometimes it runs, but usually it dies in weird and
>>> wonderful ways - sometimes with a Win32 error, sometimes with a seg
>>> fault during gc, sometimes with errors about undefined symbols various
>>> places. It's rather amusing to watch - but I assume memory is just
>>> being corrupted now instead of always dying the same way.
>>>
>>> Let me know when there is a version I can try again.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I suspect the problem is caused by commit 8358420f, which changed match
>>>> to
>>>> load part of its implementation lazily using lazy-require. Part of that
>>>> commit was reverted by 949d12e2, but possibly the use of lazy-require
>>>> left
>>>> in is causing problems in some cases.
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be best to just fully revert the commit (8358420f) on
>>>> the
>>>> release branch.
>>>>
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/25/2012 01:56 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It turns out that if I require racket/match explicitly it works.
>>>>> Although I shouldn't have to since racket/match is provided by #lang
>>>>> racket. So, I have a work around on Windows XP 32-bit. But it would be
>>>>> nice to get the problem fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Doug Williams
>>>>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I used Create Executable in DrRacket. But, I just tried raco exe --gui
>>>>>> main.rkt to create it and get exactly the same error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
>>>>>> <samth at ccs.neu.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this application generated with 'raco exe'?  Or 'Create
>>>>>>> Executable'
>>>>>>> in DrRacket?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Doug Williams
>>>>>>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some more information on the problem. The application runs fine with
>>>>>>>> the pre-release on Windows 7 - 64 bit.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The code that is dying on Windows XP 32-bit is:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (require racket/runtime-path)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ;;;
>>>>>>>> (define-runtime-path subject-path "..\\Subjects.txt")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ;;;
>>>>>>>> (define (load-subject-encodings)
>>>>>>>>     (let ((port (open-input-file subject-path #:mode 'text)))
>>>>>>>>       (set! subject-encodings
>>>>>>>>             (append
>>>>>>>>              default-subject-encodings
>>>>>>>>              (for/list ((line (in-lines port))
>>>>>>>>                         #:when (regexp-match?
>>>>>>>> #px"^\"(.*)\"\\s*\"(.*)\""
>>>>>>>> line))
>>>>>>>>                (match line
>>>>>>>>                  ((pregexp "^\"(.*)\"\\s*\"(.*)\"" (list _ subject
>>>>>>>> encoding))
>>>>>>>>                   (list (pregexp (format "^(?i:~a)" subject))
>>>>>>>> encoding))))))
>>>>>>>>       (close-input-port port)))
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (define subject-encodings default-subject-encodings)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (load-subject-encodings)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This code loads some data at load time. It does use match, which
>>>>>>>> might
>>>>>>>> explain the message:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
>>>>>>>>     collection: "racket/match"
>>>>>>>>     in collection directories:
>>>>>>>>     context...:
>>>>>>>>      standard-module-name-resolver
>>>>>>>>      #%embedded:g13106:ground-truth-data: [running body]
>>>>>>>>      #%embedded:g13057:radar-data: [traversing imports]
>>>>>>>>      #%embedded:g8619:classifier-panel: [traversing imports]
>>>>>>>>      main: [traversing imports]
>>>>>>>>      loop
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [Exited. Close box or Ctrl-C closes the console.]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I get when I run the compiled version. In DrRacket it dies with the
>>>>>>>> unhandled Win 32 exception.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Doug Williams
>>>>>>>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The pre-release 32-bit version still fails for my large
>>>>>>>>> applications
>>>>>>>>> at work fails to execute in DrRacket - 32-bit Windows XP. I don't
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> the source or symbol tables loaded so the only message I get from
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> Visual Studio debugger is attached. This is the same problem I was
>>>>>>>>> having with the previous pre-release version a month or so ago.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I can create an executable of the application. It fails because it
>>>>>>>>> doesn't find racket/match. I'll look into that further.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> sam th
>>>>>>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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