[CM] Grace freezes on sprout

Heinrich Taube taube at illinois.edu
Sat Sep 22 10:57:42 PDT 2012


wow, the thing isn't loading I've never seen that! ill have to do a fresh install and see whats going on, i was doing some scheme stuff with bill and maybe i managed to hammer lisp loading.

On Sep 22, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Sergey wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:13:02PM -0500, Heinrich Taube wrote:
>> 
>> ok for sure you need to do an svn update as i had not actually committed the new error hook code for the latest sndlib!!!
>> 
>> please do this so we are on the same page:
>> 
>> cd cm
>> rm -rf sndlin
>> premake4 clean
>> premake4
>> make
> 
> Ok.  I did the above (modifying "sndlin" to "sndlib", and the last
> "premake4" to "premake4 --jack"
> 
> It seemed to compile fine, with just a few warnings.  The full compile
> log is here:
> 
>    http://pastie.org/4781177
> 
> Then, when I ran Grace, in my terminal I saw the following errors:
> 
>    http://pastie.org/4781141
> 
> When I ran either the code I posted in my original message or your
> suggested modification with "format" instead of "print", Grace reported
> replied "syntax-error" when I executed the "(sprout (foo))" line, though
> no complaints when executing the definition of foo.
> 
> Also, at the same time it reported the syntax-error in the Grace window,
> on my terminal I saw Grace output:
> 
>    ;sprout: unbound variable
>    ;    (sprout (foo))
> 
> This is definitely better than going in to an infinite loop and hanging
> my machine, but now I think I'm a bit at a loss as far as understanding
> what's going on here.  Which variable does Grace think is unbound?  And
> what is the source of the syntax-error?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  --Sergey
> 
>> that will pull the latest sndlib tar ball and compile everything. the start the app and try that example, perhaps it won't crash.  the reason that grace is probably racing is that it is in a tight loop because the C side never sees the error return value.
>> 
>> let me know if this fixes it or not.  lots has changed so you should expect issues to come up. I'm not adding any new features until its as stable as last spring.
>> if it ever does this you can go to the Eval menu and select Interrupt Scheme (assuming you will get enough cycles to use the mouse.) on OSX you can press Command-K and this will do it more quickly.
>> 
>> also when the queue is empty it will print a "queue is empty" to std:out -- if you don't see that after an error or when all processes are done then its probably racing.
>> 
>> 
>> 




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