realloc() error while attempting to run a report

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue May 25 09:04:40 PDT 2021


Bug in filePro, possibly being massaged by bad data of some sort.

Only fP-Tech can fix this.  It's a bad pointer error, which indicates
faulty coding or bad data...or both.

m->

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:48:21AM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Good morning!
> 
> Running a single user development version of fp on a Ubuntu 20.x 64bit LINUX
> 
> COMMAND:
> dreport aspvendf -f export -u -s -y xnxn -t 165000 -p /tmp/export.txt
> 
> ERROR:
> 
>                           Records Selected:       328
> 
>                          Generating Output:       328 realloc(): invalid
> pointer
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> I am able to navigate the files in every way possible within the filePro
> application
> and directly via filePro menu but, no go when attempting to run dreport.
> 
> The format is very simple - output is of a "report" type sorting by full
> length only
> one field without any subtotals.
> 
> The processing table is a single line like so:
> 
> zz=1<"~"<2<"~"<3<"~"<4<"~"<5<"~"<6<"~"<7<"~"<8<"~"<9
> 
> memory? missing library? bad binaries?
> 
> I do not think it is memory since I have nothing else running and I often
> run a lot of
> SQL queries on this machine without issues - in addition to video and audio
> editing.
> 
> If missing library, why am I able to run IUA without a problem? Of course,
> dclerk and
> dreport may be using different libraries but what do I know ...
> 
> As per bad binaries, it is possible that my installation (some God knows how
> long ago)
> was not 100% problem free and the dreport binaries are bad but how can I
> confirm or
> eliminate that other than the fact that I am getting this error?
> 
> Thank you all in advance for you assistance!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jose Lerebours
> 
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