Re: [cx-oracle-users] segmentation violations

[Fred Y. <fc...@im...>]

It now appears that my problem was caused by migrating the server from a VMware 4 host to a VMware 5 host without upgrading the "hardware version" of the virtual machine. 

I totally forgot that our system admin team had done that about a week ago. The server otherwise worked exactly the same after that migration. It may have required a restart of Apache after the migration for the Oracle connection error to start appearing. 

Our lead sys admin just migrated my server temporarily back to a VMware 4 host and I can no longer reproduce the error there. 

On a matching dev server running on a VMware 5 host we just upgraded the virtual hardware version and now I can no longer reproduce the error there. 

So the fix may be as simple as upgrading the virtual machine hardware version on the production machine, which we plan to do as soon as we can schedule a little down time. 

I really hope that works out to be the solution. It's been years since I've dealt with an application failure this nasty. 

-- 
Fred Yankowski 
fc...@im... +1-630-907-5019 

P.S. Yes, I should upgrade our Python version to the latest available. I'll get to that once the server is stable again. 

P.P.S. Thanks for helping out.