ipload core dumps

Hello all, As soon as I execute ipload or ipload -n the program fails with a core dump. The IDS is 11.5.FC3, the platform is AIX 6.1, the c compiler is AIX Xlc for AIX, the X server on my Windows XP SP2 PC is xming 6.9.0.31. I can run xclock and all of the standard pre-packaged X software that comes with AIX. The first time I ran ipload, the onpload database was created, the xwindow on my PC did open but was empty, and a core file was dumped in the current directory. I tried this as root and user informix with identical results. If I run ipload, the X window will open and ipload will stay active until I terminate it. If I run ipload -n the entire core dumps and ipload terminates on it's on. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom

Tom wrote: > Hello all, > > As soon as I execute ipload or ipload -n the program fails with a core > dump. The IDS is 11.5.FC3, the platform is AIX 6.1, the c compiler is > AIX Xlc for AIX, the X server on my Windows XP SP2 PC is xming > 6.9.0.31. > > I can run xclock and all of the standard pre-packaged X software that > comes with AIX. > > The first time I ran ipload, the onpload database was created, the > xwindow on my PC did open but was empty, and a core file was dumped in > the current directory. I tried this as root and user informix with > identical results. If I run ipload, the X window will open and ipload > will stay active until I terminate it. If I run ipload -n the entire > core dumps and ipload terminates on it's on. > > Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Tom Put your Windows in 8bit color mode (256) colors. If this works I'll try to explain... ;) Regards. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

On Apr 8, 6:22 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tom wrote: > > Hello all, > > > As soon as I execute ipload or ipload -n the program fails with a core > > dump. The IDS is 11.5.FC3, the platform is AIX 6.1, the c compiler is > > AIX Xlc for AIX, the X server on my Windows XP SP2 PC is xming > > 6.9.0.31. > > > I can run xclock and all of the standard pre-packaged X software that > > comes with AIX. > > > The first time I ran ipload, the onpload database was created, the > > xwindow on my PC did open but was empty, and a core file was dumped in > > the current directory. I tried this as root and user informix with > > identical results. If I run ipload, the X window will open and ipload > > will stay active until I terminate it. If I run ipload -n the entire > > core dumps and ipload terminates on it's on. > > > Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > > Tom > > Put your Windows in 8bit color mode (256) colors. > If this works I'll try to explain... ;) > > Regards. > > -- > Fernando Nunes > Portugal > > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com > My email works... but I don't check it frequently...- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Fernando, I only have two choices, 32 bit and 16 bit. It was set to 32 bit, I changed it to 16 bit, and now it works. All of my other X-stuff has been working just fine. If you try to explain, I'll try to understand :) Thanks, Tom

Tom wrote: > On Apr 8, 6:22 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Tom wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> As soon as I execute ipload or ipload -n the program fails with a core >>> dump. The IDS is 11.5.FC3, the platform is AIX 6.1, the c compiler is >>> AIX Xlc for AIX, the X server on my Windows XP SP2 PC is xming >>> 6.9.0.31. >>> I can run xclock and all of the standard pre-packaged X software that >>> comes with AIX. >>> The first time I ran ipload, the onpload database was created, the >>> xwindow on my PC did open but was empty, and a core file was dumped in >>> the current directory. I tried this as root and user informix with >>> identical results. If I run ipload, the X window will open and ipload >>> will stay active until I terminate it. If I run ipload -n the entire >>> core dumps and ipload terminates on it's on. >>> Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. >>> Thanks, >>> Tom >> Put your Windows in 8bit color mode (256) colors. >> If this works I'll try to explain... ;) >> >> Regards. >> >> -- >> Fernando Nunes >> Portugal >> >> http://informix-technology.blogspot.com >> My email works... but I don't check it frequently...- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Fernando, > > I only have two choices, 32 bit and 16 bit. It was set to 32 bit, I > changed it to 16 bit, and now it works. > > All of my other X-stuff has been working just fine. If you try to > explain, I'll try to understand :) > > Thanks, > > Tom oh boy.... Well... I'm glad it worked... I have to search a bit to try to explain it. I've been through that... ipload uses some 8 (maybe 16 according to your experience) bit functons/bitmap (for the initial pretty image). Some X-Servers can map that to whatever they're using. Others are configurable. Others have other weird behaviors which in turn causes "confusion" in the ipload code... I'll keep this post as unread. Will get back when I found further info. Regards. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

Fernando Nunes wrote: > Tom wrote: >> On Apr 8, 6:22 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Tom wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> As soon as I execute ipload or ipload -n the program fails with a core >>>> dump. The IDS is 11.5.FC3, the platform is AIX 6.1, the c compiler is >>>> AIX Xlc for AIX, the X server on my Windows XP SP2 PC is xming >>>> 6.9.0.31. >>>> I can run xclock and all of the standard pre-packaged X software that >>>> comes with AIX. >>>> The first time I ran ipload, the onpload database was created, the >>>> xwindow on my PC did open but was empty, and a core file was dumped in >>>> the current directory. I tried this as root and user informix with >>>> identical results. If I run ipload, the X window will open and ipload >>>> will stay active until I terminate it. If I run ipload -n the entire >>>> core dumps and ipload terminates on it's on. >>>> Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. >>>> Thanks, >>>> Tom >>> Put your Windows in 8bit color mode (256) colors. >>> If this works I'll try to explain... ;) >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> -- >>> Fernando Nunes >>> Portugal >>> >>> http://informix-technology.blogspot.com >>> My email works... but I don't check it frequently...- Hide quoted text - >>> >>> - Show quoted text - >> >> Fernando, >> >> I only have two choices, 32 bit and 16 bit. It was set to 32 bit, I >> changed it to 16 bit, and now it works. >> >> All of my other X-stuff has been working just fine. If you try to >> explain, I'll try to understand :) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom > > oh boy.... Well... I'm glad it worked... I have to search a bit to try > to explain it. I've been through that... ipload uses some 8 (maybe 16 > according to your experience) bit functons/bitmap (for the initial > pretty image). Some X-Servers can map that to whatever they're using. > Others are configurable. Others have other weird behaviors which in turn > causes "confusion" in the ipload code... > > I'll keep this post as unread. Will get back when I found further info. > > Regards. > Well. Honestly I can't explain the details. I don't even recall how I found the workaround. The feature of the X-Windows servers I was talking about is "8 bit Pseudo Color". Some of them have a configuration option for that, others deal with it without any issues, Cygwin can support it in "-fullscreen" etc. I should have opened a PMR at the time, so that further investigation was done (I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug in ipload... maybe it's just a limitation and requires only some documentation). I recently used it in HP-UX and had no problems. When I hit this I was using AIX. So probably the OS has something to do with it. I could only find a bug (already fixed) in Solaris with similar symptoms. If/when I have time I can try to look into this. You could also open a PMR of course. Regards. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

On Apr 9, 6:01 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fernando Nunes wrote: > > Tom wrote: > >> On Apr 8, 6:22 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Tom wrote: > >>>> Hello all, > >>>> As soon as I execute ipload or ipload -n the program fails with a core > >>>> dump. The IDS is 11.5.FC3, the platform is AIX 6.1, the c compiler is > >>>> AIX Xlc for AIX, the X server on my Windows XP SP2 PC is xming > >>>> 6.9.0.31. > >>>> I can run xclock and all of the standard pre-packaged X software that > >>>> comes with AIX. > >>>> The first time I ran ipload, the onpload database was created, the > >>>> xwindow on my PC did open but was empty, and a core file was dumped in > >>>> the current directory. I tried this as root and user informix with > >>>> identical results. If I run ipload, the X window will open and ipload > >>>> will stay active until I terminate it. If I run ipload -n the entire > >>>> core dumps and ipload terminates on it's on. > >>>> Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Tom > >>> Put your Windows in 8bit color mode (256) colors. > >>> If this works I'll try to explain... ;) > > >>> Regards. > > >>> -- > >>> Fernando Nunes > >>> Portugal > > >>>http://informix-technology.blogspot.com > >>> My email works... but I don't check it frequently...- Hide quoted text - > > >>> - Show quoted text - > > >> Fernando, > > >> I only have two choices, 32 bit and 16 bit. It was set to 32 bit, I > >> changed it to 16 bit, and now it works. > > >> All of my other X-stuff has been working just fine. If you try to > >> explain, I'll try to understand :) > > >> Thanks, > > >> Tom > > > oh boy.... Well... I'm glad it worked... I have to search a bit to try > > to explain it. I've been through that... ipload uses some 8 (maybe 16 > > according to your experience) bit functons/bitmap (for the initial > > pretty image). Some X-Servers can map that to whatever they're using. > > Others are configurable. Others have other weird behaviors which in turn > > causes "confusion" in the ipload code... > > > I'll keep this post as unread. Will get back when I found further info. > > > Regards. > > Well. Honestly I can't explain the details. I don't even recall how I found the > workaround. The feature of the X-Windows servers I was talking about is "8 bit > Pseudo Color". > Some of them have a configuration option for that, others deal with it without > any issues, Cygwin can support it in "-fullscreen" etc. > > I should have opened a PMR at the time, so that further investigation was done > (I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug in ipload... maybe it's just a > limitation and requires only some documentation). I recently used it in HP-UX > and had no problems. When I hit this I was using AIX. So probably the OS has > something to do with it. I could only find a bug (already fixed) in Solaris > with similar symptoms. > > If/when I have time I can try to look into this. You could also open a PMR of > course. > > Regards. > > -- > Fernando Nunes > Portugal > > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com > My email works... but I don't check it frequently...- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Fernando, Thank you for the info. The explanation is excellent. I do have a PMR open, IBM Informix has the core file that that gets created. I will add your post to the PMR info. The Informix tech at this time wants to open a PMR with the IBM AIX group. At any rate, I'll do what I can to keep this open. Thanks again, Tom