[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#458134: Bug#458134: db4.6-util: segfaults and othe rproblems

[Clint Adams]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:50:25PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> 
> the db4.6-utils seem pretty hosed:
> 
> db4.6_dump segfaults:
> 
>    db:             Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order)
>    # db4.6_dump db
>    Segmentation fault
>    (backtrace shows some crash in __memp_resize but is otherwise useless)

I cannot reproduce this.

> in short, 4.6 seems to be pretty hosed, the same app has worked fine with
> db4.5 and db4.4 (the app still works with 4.6, but the utilities don't).
> 
> also, the database files are not portable among architectures (a database
> file created on an x86 host will not work on an amd64 host, unlike the
> claims in the documentation).

Which documentation?  Is your app writing the data portably?