Re: [mdb-dev] Seg fault and CVS problems

[KEVIN Z. <KZE...@jh...>]

Michael, thank you for your response.

I tried both things, to see if there was difference. Here's the output of =
the debugging, after compiling with the -g option:
www:/home/kevinz/mdbtools-0.5rc2# gdb mdb-export
GNU gdb 2002-04-01-cvs
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you =
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain =
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for =
details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...
(gdb) run -H ../budgetdb/budgettables.mdb BCODE
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/mdb-export -H ../budgetdb/budgettables.mdb=
 BCODE

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08048db3 in main (argc=3D4, argv=3D0xbffff914) at mdb-export.c:103
103                                     if (quote_text && is_text_type(col-=
>col_type)) {
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x08048db3 in main (argc=3D4, argv=3D0xbffff914) at mdb-export.c:103
(gdb)=20

Just pressing RETURN when asked for the password gave the same result:
kevinz@www:~$ cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroo=
t/mdbtools login
Logging in to :pserver:ano...@cv...:2401/cvsroot/=
mdbtools
CVS password:   [Just pressed RETURN here]
cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server cvs.mdbtools.sourceforge.net: =
Connection reset by peer
kevinz@www:~$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cv=
sroot/mdbtools co mdbtools
cvs checkout: failed to open /home/kevinz/.cvspass for reading: No such =
file or directory
cvs [checkout aborted]: recv() from server cvs.mdbtools.sourceforge.net: =
EOF
kevinz@www:~$=20

Michael, thanks again for your help.

-Kevin Zembower

>>> Michael Wood <mw...@it...> 07/10/03 08:21AM >>>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:06:05PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> I'm trying to get my first installation of MDB tools working. I'm also =
not familiar with CVS, so I couldn't get this command to work:
> www:~# cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/mdb=
tools login
[snip]
> I tried putting in 'anonymous' and my email address in response to the
> password prompt, but neither was accepted.

Try just pressing ENTER without typing anything for the password.

> Then, I got the 0.5rc2 tarball and did the dance: tar zxvf
> mdbtools-0.5rc2.tar.gz; cd mdbtools-0.5rc2/; ./configure --enable-sql;
> make; su -; make install. All seemed to go well, except for some
> complaints about missing libglade and libgnomeui, which didn't stop
> the build. mdbtools seems to be working, except for a Segmentation
> fault when the '-H' (omit the header row) is used:
[snip]
> kevinz@www:~/budgetdb$ mdb-export -H budgettables.mdb BCODE
> Segmentation fault
> kevinz@www:~/budgetdb$=20
>=20
> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this problem? I tried to search the

You could try compiling everything with debugging and then run that
command under gdb.

e.g.

$ CFLAGS=3D"-g" ./configure ...
$ make

$ gdb mdb-export
[...]
(gdb) run -H budgettables.mdb BCODE

Then when it crashes, type:
(gdb) backtrace

If you post that to the list someone should be able to tell what the
problem is.

--=20
Michael Wood <mw...@it...>