Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird on Caldera Crashes Windows app.

[Joseph A. <ja...@il...>]

There are two versions of Linux IB - Classical and Superserver.

Classical is more stable and reliable but it can't respond to the newer
functions of IB.

This may be the case with you.

Joseph Alba
ja...@il...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schmidt" <pa...@tr...>
To: <fir...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:57 AM
Subject: [Firebird-devel] Firebird on Caldera Crashes Windows app.


> Dear List:
>
> I have run into a problem with Firebird, and I am tearing my hair
> out, I am posting it here, if I can't find a solution, I may need the
> hairclub for men..
>
> I am new to this list, so I am noyt quite sure of how the bug
> reporting process works, nor am I completely sure this is a bug.
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> Client:  Firebird 0.9.4.41, Windows95a
> Server: Firebird 0.9.4p1, Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (Kernel 2.2.14)
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> One of the libraries I use is IBObjects, which at one point makes a
> call to the isc_database_info function in gds32.dll.  This function
> is supposed to return an array of values, ending with the value
> isc_info_end.
>
> Here is the real interesting point, if I use the server on the
> Windows machine, this all works perfectly.   If I point it to the
> database on the Linux server, it never finds the isc_info_end value,
> and the application crashes, when it runs out of array space.
>
> Now, I need to know if this is caused by something on the server
> side, or something on the client side?
>
> If on the server side (I suspect it is), what system libraries are
> needed by FB, and what versions?  I can grab updates to packages, if
> that will help.   Don't tell me about RedHat, my server machine and
> RedHat had enough disagreements that I could not use it.
>
> I hope that this is an easy one, I found this problem the day after
> recommending Firebird to a client (big oops), and I would hate to
> have to tell him that I will need to use something else.  I was able
> to patch my copy of IBObjects to work around it, but several
> utilities programs that I would like to use, also use IBObjects, and
> they crash, because they use their own copies of the library.
>
> I don't mind rolling my own copy of the Linux Server, but I would
> need to know where in the name of E Gad Zooks; D.O.P.E. to look for
> it.
>
> Thanks,
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> Paul
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> Paul Schmidt,
> Tricat Technologies
> Email: pa...@tr...
> Website: www.tricattechnologies.com
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