[Refdb-users] Problem setting up refdb

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Olivier Fisette writes:
 > I just installed refdb on a Gentoo-GNU/Linux machine, using SQLite as the 
 > database engine. I use 0.9.4-pre1 rather than 0.9.3 since the server in the 
 > later package terminates with a segfault as soon as a client tries to 
 > connect. (I used gcc 3.2.3 for compiling both versions.)
 > 

Yes, this is the now famous
close-nonexistent-file-descriptor-when-logging-to-stderr bug. I
officially recommend to use 0.9.4-pre1 as it fixes a couple of other
bugs as well. It is more stable than 0.9.3.

 > Unfortunately, adding references to a database doesn't seem to work. Whenever 
 > I try adding the content of the example ris file provided with the package, I 
 > end up with an error (the server log is included in this message). The same 
 > error happens when I try adding the content of a ris file created by 
 > converting a PubMed Medline file.
 > 
 > Does anyone know what is causing this problem or what it relates to ?
 > 

I can only guess and ask questions:

Does the createdb command succeed?

If yes, do you get a database file in the expected directory?

Can you open that database with the command-line client sqlite and do
inserts?

Does the whichdb command succeed after selecting the database?

If possible, run all the refdb-related tests with the log level set to 7.

regards,
Markus

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