upstream release 3.2.1 added a 1-minute timeout to all tests. This will at the very least change the infinite loop into a failure and will possibly show other failures. The relevant commit is 06d7a0f2b5faea40ea8701b8772d8ef0841766bd. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smalltalk.git/commit/?id=06d7a0 Paolo