Re: Online 4.1 tbcheck segm.fault

Posted in 1993

Colonel Panic — 8 Apr 93 02:30:29 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1pkcp5INN4lu@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> colin@scdipc0.ueci.com (Colin Mcgrath) writes: >Problem: >******** >tbcheck -cI aborts with a segmentation fault or memory fault >Online Version 4.10 UC2 >Platform : SUN Sparc IPC, SUN OS 4.1.1 > >Description: >*********** >tbcheck -cI aborts with a segmentation fault when run on a database. >We found that tbcheck failed when index names were 18 characters in length >AND the index with the 18 character name was not the last index created for >the particular table. > >Example: >******** >"long_idx_check" is a table with three columns, each indexed. >The second index name is 18 character long (long_idx_check_002) > >Results of running: tbcheck -cI test_db:long_idx_check > >Validating indexes for test_db:colin.long_idx_check... > Index ix108_1 > Index long_idx_check_002co >Segmentation fault This is a known bug (#9184) that occurs with 18-character index names. It was fixed in 4.10.UD* and 5.0. You can get either a seg fault or a "Bad Node" message. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Disclaimer: Poster under influence of 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine Qvfpynvzre: Zl ubirepensg vf shyy bs rryf. "Them bats is smart. They use RADAR."