Bug#438562: jedstate doesn't work on AMD64

[Paul Boekholt]

2007/8/17, Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_br_debian.org at marc-jano.de>:
> Package: jedstate
> Version: 0.5.4.transitional.1-5
> Severity: important
>
> jedstate doesn't work at all on AMD64. With the same recent_db, jedstate
> on a i386 Lenny box works perfectly, while on an AMD64 Lenny box, it
> does not.

GDBM files are not portable - see also
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/05/msg00023.html
If you start with a new gdbm file, do you still have problems?


> Using strace, I noticed that (with the recent_db that worked flawlessly
> on i386) jedstate on AMD64 at least sometimes uses absurdly high file
> offsets:
>
>   lseek(3, 70368744194048, SEEK_SET)      = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

The jedstate package has two perl scripts. What did you strace? Does
the gdbmrecent s-lang script work?