Re: Usual trouble - runbib says "error"

Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> What database engine do you use btw? I'm running PostgreSQL on FreeBSD
> and MySQL on Cygwin.

MySQL on Darwin.

> Unfortunately this doesn't get you any closer to a working
> bibliography. It may be a platform issue but I wouldn't bet. In order
> to further identify what is going wrong, you should try the following:
> 
> - remove the citations you last added and see when runbib starts to
>   work again. Can you attribute the failure to a single citation?

I deleted the last month worth of references, because I know with 
certainty that it was working a month ago.  It didn't help, both times 
the client stopping following this line after a long pause:

/sw/bin/openjade:Thesis.sgml:3867:38:X: reference to non-existent ID 
"IDCOOTER1994STRUCTURAL-ADJU-X"

(This in itself doesn't indicate a problem, because I get "reference to 
non-existent ID" for *all* my references and it usually doesn't matter - 
except that in this case it is followed by "error".)

> - can you clean up the reference data by converting them to utf-8
>   manually as shown above? You'd best use a test database that uses
>   the UTF-8 encoding anyway. Does that affect the outcome in any way?

No, same result (though I hadn't been getting the errors you got when 
using ISO-8859-1 anyway).

> - please watch whether the bibliography always stops at the same
>   point, or whether the failure is rather random. Does it always stop
>   at the same reference (you can identify it by looking at the SQL
>   queries as many of them refer to "refdb_id" one way or another)?
>   Does it always stop after the author query shown in your log
>   snippet?

Yes, after converting to UTF-8 it is stopping at exactly the same place 
when I run it in debugging mode.

So I'm stuck again! :-(

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