Update attempts freezing in clerk

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Fri Aug 15 11:19:04 PDT 2008


Quoting Jose Lerebours (Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:13:07 -0700):

> Barry posted:
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> filePro 5.0.14
> openSUSE 10.3
[...]
> At those moments, I find the following: I enter the problem file like
> this:
>
>  dclerk 3disp -s1 -y - -z -
>
> I can navigate through records without a problem. But when I press "U"
> at any record, the session freezes, does not respond to BREAK or QUIT.
[...]
> Ideas?
> ------------------------------------------
> Several things come to mind:
> 1) Infinite loop in processing table

No processing is being run.  See the command line above.

> 2) Attempting to access record which is locked (2nd table)

See (1).

> 3) Recursive loop - process that keeps calling itself

See (1) and (2).

> 4) Server is just lazy and refuses to work today  :-)
>
> The best way to trouble shoot this by using debug and step through
> the process and try to find where it gets stuck.

See (1), (2), and (3).



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