slap hangs indefinitely

[LoganDark]

Running slap hangs indefinitely.

Description

I think the text editor should work...

Expected Behavior

The text editor should work?

Actual Behavior

Steps to Reproduce

1. login with user nodeos:nodeos
2. run slap

Context

I was trying to use a text editor.

Your Environment

• Operating System used: macOS 10.14 Mojave build 18A293u
• Platform used: x86_64-img on QEMU
• Node Version used (locally): N/A
• NPM Version used (locally): N/A
• NodeOS Version used: v1.0.0-RC3.2017-06-12
• Special Environment Variables used: N/A
• Link to your project: N/A

[LoganDark]

slap still hanging after leaving QEMU running overnight. I've pretty much confirmed this is not working..

A .slap file was still created though, checked after reboot and ls.

@piranna you seem to be active here, do you mind checking this out?

[piranna]

We had problems with slap in the past, seems could be related to the terminal and blessed library.

[LoganDark]

I think it's the console. VGA output could be the problem.

[piranna]

Yes, probably.

[LoganDark]

Maybe I could instruct QEMU to use a different output? Do you have any recommendations?

[piranna]

QEmu should be using a SVGA output instead of default VGA, but that doesn't matter, if there's any problem related to this is in the Linux console terminal, or its integration with blessed.

[LoganDark]

Have you gotten it to work in the past? If so, how?

[LoganDark]

This has only ever been dismissed as a bug with no solution.

[austinfrey]

@LoganDark is this still an issue? i'm running v1.0.0-RC3.2017-06-12 and slap does load after about a minute. It crashes after about another minute with anout of memory error. Specifically the error I see is:

Out of memory: Kill process 1048, score 466 or sacrifice child

I wonder if you could allocate more memory to qemu instead of the default 256M.d

cc @piranna