Re: with ubuntu 64 - bit still receiving parse_config_file-error

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Hi Rick

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Rick Parker <rp...@ce...> wrote:

> Sorry about that...
> Shoulda read the docs a little more....
>
>
> CURL-LOADER VERSION: 0.47, December 2, 2008
>
> HW DETAILS: CPU/S and memory are must:
> MEMORY
> MemTotal:      3922660 kB
> MemFree:       1658920 kB
>
> CPU
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 23
> model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5430  @ 2.66GHz
> stepping        : 6
> cpu MHz         : 2659.984
> cache size      : 6144 KB
> physical id     : 0
> siblings        : 1
> core id         : 0
> cpu cores       : 1
> a
>
> LINUX DISTRIBUTION and KERNEL (uname -r):
> 2.6.27-11-server
>
> GCC VERSION (gcc -v):
> Place the file inline here:
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
>
> gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12)
>
> COMPILATION AND MAKING OPTIONS (if defaults changed):
> make optimize=1 debug=0
>
> COMMAND-LINE:
>
> CONFIGURATION-FILE (The most common source of problems):
> ########### GENERAL SECTION ################################
> BATCH_NAME=10K
> CLIENTS_NUM_MAX=10000
> CLIENTS_NUM_START=100
> CLIENTS_RAMPUP_INC=50
> INTERFACE=eth2
> NETMASK=24
> IP_ADDR_MIN=10.10.40.50
> IP_ADDR_MAX=10.10.40.150
> CYCLES_NUM=-1
> URLS_NUM=1
>
> ########### URL SECTION ####################################
>
> URL=http://localhost/index.html
> #URL=http://localhost/ACE-INSTALL.html
> URL_SHORT_NAME="local-index"
> REQUEST_TYPE=GET
> TIMER_URL_COMPLETION = 5000      # In msec. When positive, Now it is
> enforced by cancelling url fetch on timeout
> TIMER_AFTER_URL_SLEEP =20
>
>
>
> DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:
>       COMPILATION? No
>       LINKING? No
>       EXECUTION? yes
>       OTHER (please specify)?
> Have you run $make cleanall  prior to $make ? Yes many times
>
>
> DESCRIPTION:
> I receive the following when trying to run the batch
> parse_config_file - error: failed to load even a single batch.
> main - error: parse_config_file () failed.
>
> QUESTION/ SUGGESTION/ PATCH:
>


You are supposed to get printed out strings of your batch file,
at least the first one.
Could you see something?

There is a rather weird issue with fgets () and gcc-4.3 or recent
glibc at 64-bit systems. Initially, we considered that as our own bug,
but later we have seen the issue at least in two other projects.

As a work-around you may try an older compiler, like gcc-3.4, gcc-4.1
or to compile curl-loader with debugging and without optimization.
$make cleanall
$make debug=1 optimize=0

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Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
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