Re: Usual trouble - runbib says "error"

Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeremy Malcolm <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> /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".)
>

These error messages are created by openjade and should go away as soon as you
succeed in creating the bibliography. It is just a bootstrapping issue.

> > - 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).
>

Interestingly, it makes a difference both on FreeBSD/PostgreSQL and on
Cygwin/MySQL. This appears to be a problem with the character encoding stuff in
refdb, although it does not seem to be related to your problem. I'll have to
look into this anyway.

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

Could you please send me a full refdbd log (loglevel 7) showing the addref
command as well as your runbib attempt? I'd like to wade through, maybe there's
some indication of a failure way before refdbd gives in.

If that doesn't enlighten me, the fastest way to get further will be to debug it
on your box. Is there a chance that I could get remote access to your computer?
All I'd need is a regular user account accessible through ssh and
non-privileged access to the refdb database and to a test reference database. I
can run these test using a different refdbd port so this would not interfere
with your work in any way.

regards,
Markus


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