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

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sun Dec 30 19:55:51 UTC 2007


* Marc Lehmann:

> after upgrading to 4.6, this apparently changed. wether caused by an
> upgraded 4.5 database or simply because the 4.6 utilities don't work
> anymore (or don't happen to work by chance) with environments configured
> with set_thread_count (the documentation for that method says a process
> might not be able to join such an enviornment unless it also cofigured an
> is_alive function, which never happened in our case).
>
> the documentation is not clear wether a segfault is expected (the hint
> that one should call DB_ENV->failchk before calling the utility seems to
> indicate that they should work).

I think the idea is to call DB_ENV->failchk so that the other programs
do not need to attempt recovery on their own.

Have you tried specifying the right value of set_thread_count in the
DB_CONFIG file?





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