[Refdb-users] Newbie Question

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

Jochen Witte writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I just play around with refdb using 0.9.4-2 qith mysql as backend.
 > When trying to add entries to the database I get the following in
 > refdb-log (after importing refdb.dump and empty.mysql.dump into the DB)
 > 

First of all I'd ask you to use either 0.9.4-pre1 (essentially a
bugfix for 0.9.3 with no new features) or 0.9.4-pre5. Everything
inbetween is in various stages of being broken.

pre5 is available, as usual, right here:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz


 > ---snip---
 > /usr/local/refdb-0.94/share/refdb/db
 > connected to database server using database:
 > refdb1
 > SELECT * FROM t_keyword
 > no IDs found for keyword scan
 > child finished client on fd 5
 > child exited with code 0
 > server waiting n_max_fd=4
 > ---snip---
 > 
 > What have I done wrong?
 > 

This depends on the command you've used and on the type of data
(except it's a real bug in pre2). Possible reasons for an addref
failure are:

- You've attempted to add invalid risx data
- You've attempted to add risx data withouth telling refdbc; it will
  assume ris then
- You've found a particular dataset that happens to crash the app

In order to find out what's going wrong, you should always do the
following:

- run refdbd with a log level of 7 (-l 7 on the command line or set
  loglevel in refdbdrc appropriately)

- start with a clean database and try to isolate the minimum amount of
  data to reproduce the problem.

- send the log and the dataset that caused the failure to the list. If
  the mysql log contains suspicious messages, please send these too.

This will give me a chance to reproduce and fix the problem if it is
not a pilot error.

regards,
Markus

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