File Pro And Bus Errors

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 03:42P Fri Jul 08 2005, J. Ryan Kelley wrote:
> 
> Jim Asman wrote:
> 
> >--------------- Original Message ---------------
> >At 11:44A Fri Jul 08 2005, J. Ryan Kelley wrote:
> >  
> >>One of the suggestions that was given to me to track down the source of 
> >>these bus errors was to run the code through dclerk w/ the -db argument 
> >>to debug to see exactly where these bus errors are occuring, oddly 
> >>enough most (if not all) of these bus errors are occuring before debug 
> >>even begins to go through any of the code, yet if I run debug with out 
> >>input processing (-z xxyyzzz) all goes well.  Any ideas?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >What happens if you tokenize the processing and then run from
> >rclerk/rreport?
> >
> >
> >Jim 
> >--
> >  
> >
> In this case at least running rclerk gives no problems at all, so the 
> obvious solution is to run it always through rclerk, which we do for the 
> general employees here.  However we occasionally will have a locked 
> index, and the easieast way (at least that I know of) to find out what 
> index is holding everything up is to run through the code in debug until 
> it hangs, then rebuild the index of the look up that the code is hanging 
> on, not to mention dclerk is still a great resource for testing new code.

The reason I brought this up is that I have seen something similar
on fp for freeBSD. In my case, code that had worked for years on SCO,
had problems on freeBSD filepro. I was only testing this for someone, so
I never pursued it.

I found that deleting a few lines from the input table made the error 
go away. It wasn't like there was specific code that made it blow up,
but getting rid of 60 lines or so of @key stuff suppressed the error.

Maybe there is something in common here.



Jim 
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