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From: Markus Hoenicka <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de>
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Subject: Re: troubles with forking program (not the usual probs though...)
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Markus Hoenicka <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de> was heard to complain:

> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to screw up a forking program (refdbd, from  
> http://refdb.sourceforge.net) in an attempt to install R which I  
> need at work. This does not look like the widely reported fork  
> failures as I do not get any diagnostic output - things just don't  
> work as expected anymore. setup ran uneventfully, except that it  
> failed to upgrade libatk the first time as it was probably in use,  
> so I ran setup a second time after closing all programs. I've  
> appended the log of both runs just in case.
>
[...]

After a few hours of sleep I Looked at the update log again. Only  
binutils (containing the linker) and mysql-related packages (refdbd  
was set up to use the MySQL client library) were likely to affect  
refdbd. Downgrading binutils didn't help. Downgrading the  
MySQL-related packages was not possible as there are no previous  
versions available in setup. However, switching to a different  
database engine (sqlite3) made refdbd return to normal. Therefore I  
suspect that refdbd was screwed up by upgrading the MySQL client  
library. I'll follow up on this on the Cygwin Ports list.

regards,
Markus


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Markus Hoenicka
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