[Summary-Talk] Re: Summary 2.6 beta 7 is now available for Mac OS X and Linux

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale LaFountain wrote:
> Thanks for the referring domain changes Jason!

You are welcome.

> I'm still tracking a problem with "StrTable.cpp:895: failed
> assertion" that has occurred as recently as 2.6b6 (haven't seen it
> yet in b7, but I'm only a couple days into it).
> 
> I did notice that the database was corrupted when I restarted b7 just
> now, even though it hadn't thrown any assertion errors in the logs
> since being restarted and a full process run.

Hopefully this is being caused by the same bug that has been causing the
Visit.cpp:803 assertion that I have been working on for the last eight
weeks (which is why this beta series has been going on for so long).
Both of those assertions indicate that the database has been corrupted.

In the last few days I found a bug in OS X that was corrupting Summary's
memory occasionally when another process was accessing the disk at the
same time as Summary. Working around that problem has required some
fairly sweeping changes to the way Summary allocates memory from the
operating system.

I have a new beta, 2.6b8 for OS X, that you are welcome to try at
<http://summary.net/download/sum-osx2.6b8.dmg> that I believe fixes the
Visit.cpp assertion problem, and hopefully will fix the problems you are
reporting. This release will be up on the beta page at our website later
today along with the release notes, but you can download it from the
link above right now.

Because of the scope of the changes I needed to make to work around the
Apple bug, this beta is potentially less stable than others I have put
out recently. Hopefully it actually solves these problems, and doesn't
introduce any new ones, and we can get on with putting out a release
version.

Jason

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