Noel Yap wrote:
>> I am having problems running Ace 4.5e on my Linux system. When I try to
> re-initialize the database, I get a segmentation fault. gdb tells me
> that this is somewhere in strftime(). I've been told that this due to a
> null pointer being passed to the function. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
Jean wrote:
> this looks annoying, please what version of Linux are you running
> we use Red-hat linux to compile
>> also, please what is your hard ware,
Richard wrote:
> Acedb 4.5e crashes on some releases of linux, but not others (not in
> our hands under Red Hat, which is what we use). We believe that this
> is due to bugs in giving an inadequate buffer length to system calls
> readdir() and/or getcwd().
I am using the Debian 2.0 distribution, on an IBM ThinkPad. I had no
problems getting Ace 4.3 to run previously, although I have upgraded my
system since then. Aside from the crash when initializing a new
database, however, Ace appears to work fine if used on a database
created on another system.
Richard wrote:
> I think our current code has been fixed for the linux crashes by Ian
> Longden (il at sanger.ac.uk), but can't work out exactly what you need to
> get the fixes. I suggest you contact Ian directly.
Thanks, I'll do that.
Noel Yap
Curator, RiceBlastDB
Cornell University
