Re: main database is too old or corrupt

[email protected] writes:
 > Yes I do. I get an error in the xterm running refdba. It says "error"
 > when I run viewstat or listuser. But if I insert the command listdb, the
 > pager displays an empty document. Does it tell you something? I have
 > also asked refdba for a .log file during a simple session, and it
 > doesn't add much information:
 > 
 > 7:pid=5034:Mon Jun 19 15:43:39 2006:viewstat
 > 7:pid=5034:Mon Jun 19 15:43:46 2006:quit
 > 

I haven't seen anything as weird as this (except maybe the duplicate
keyword/trailing slash bug repoted by Rich). The funny thing is that
the sources do not contain a single line that would issue the message
"error". The message is defined in statgen.pl which creates the header
file that holds the messages, but the corresponding error number (001)
is not referenced anywhere in the code. All other errors cause a
different, usually more verbose, error message. Is that "error"
message sent to stderr or to stdout? In the latter case, it should be
within the pager (which is less according to your config files), in
the former case it should appear only if you leave the pager. Is there
any chance that the "error" message is generated by a different
program (the pager, the shell that invokes the pager etc)?

As a last resort, would it be possible for me to either remotely
access refdbd or to get a temporary shell account on your box for
further debugging? I'm really stymied here.

regards,
Markus

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