troubles with forking program (not the usual probs though...)

Wed Nov 16 07:59:00 GMT 2011

Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.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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