Re: [cx-oracle-users] segmentation violations

[Glyph L. <gl...@tw...>]

> On Oct 24, 2016, at 15:50, Fred Yankowski <fc...@im...> wrote:
> 
> Last week I started getting segmentation-violation crashes from cx_Oracle after using it without problems for years. I cannot figure out what changed and broke things. I hope you all can help me fix it.
> 
> I'm testing with a fresh installation of cx_Oracle with the latest Oracle client libs that I could find:
> 
> OS:  RHEL 6.8
> 
> Python:  2.7.8, built from source.

Sorry for the off-topic reply, but: especially since you're building from source anyway, you should really upgrade to the most recent release of 2.7.  At the very least, 2.7.9 makes it possible to make secure HTTPS connections, which previous versions don't.  Presumably if this is a program connecting to an Oracle database, it's got interesting enough data in it that you want to protect it from attackers, and keeping up to date on your interpreter versions (or at least, updating more than once a year: <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-279/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-279/>>!) is an important part of that.

-glyph