Some of these seem to be resolved through environment variables that you might not have. Read the comment for UnixResolver>>#xdgUserDir:
And no, I don't know why this is implemented that way. Apparently they are following some standard. > On 15 Dec 2015, at 11:14, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I get my pharo on ubuntu 14 64 bit with > > cd Ephestos; wget -O- get.pharo.org/alpha+vmLatest | bash > > looks like startup scripts on ubuntu has been broken > > StartupPreferencesLoader preferencesGeneralFolder . > > returns nil, looking inside the method's source if I do > > FileLocator preferences asFileReference > > gives me a nice error Cant find the requested origin > > trying with > > cd Ephestos; wget -O- get.pharo.org/alpha+vm | bash > > for getting the stable default vm, same problem, so I assume this is an image > problem > > here is the stack > > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>cantFindOriginError [ self > cantFindOriginError ] in > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed: in Block: [ > self cantFindOriginError ] [ ^ aBlock value ] in > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: in Block: [ > ^ aBlock value ] BlockClosure>>cull: Context>>evaluateSignal: > Context>>handleSignal: Error(Exception)>>signal Error(Exception)>>signal: > Error class(Exception class)>>signal: FFICallout>>loaderForArgNamed: > FFICallout>>loaderForArgNamed:indirectIndex: > FFICallout>>argName:indirectIndex:type:ptrArity: > FFIFunctionParser>>parseArgument FFIFunctionParser>>parseArguments > FFIFunctionParser>>parseNamedFunction: > FFICalloutMethodBuilder>>parseSignature: FFICalloutMethodBuilder>>generate > FFICalloutMethodBuilder>>build: FFICalloutAPI>>function:module: > UnixEnvironment(Object)>>ffiCall:module: > UnixEnvironment(OSEnvironment)>>getEnv: > UnixEnvironment(OSEnvironment)>>at:ifAbsent: [ Smalltalk os environment at: > aString ifAbsent: [ nil ] ] in > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: in Block: [ > Smalltalk os environment at: aString ifAbsent: [...etc... > BlockClosure>>on:do: > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed: > UnixResolver>>home [ self home / '.config' ] in UnixResolver>>preferences in > Block: [ self home / '.config' ] [ ^ aBlock value ] in > UnixResolver(PlatformResolver)>>directoryFromEnvVariableNamed:or: in Block: [ > ^ aBlock value ] BlockClosure>>cull: > >
