Running gw crashes

Post by **Thunderstone** » Thu Jul 31, 1997 4:56 pm

I get this error:

000 Corrupt next header at 00000000000016E6 in KDBF file /torah/httpd_torah/htdl
000 Assertion `0' failed at kdbf.c:485
000 Texis daemon (11176) ABEND: signal 6
000 Texis daemon (11176) ABEND: signal 6

I'm on a Dec Alpha.

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Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Aug 01, 1997 10:29 am

Brock Rozen said:

Between the releases of Webinator 1 and Webinator 2 we discovered some ways
to make the file accesses more efficient on the Alpha. Unfortunately the
file formats are incompatible. You will need to rewalk the site and create
the database with Webinator 2. This only affects the Alpha. On all other
platforms the databases are still compatible.

Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Aug 01, 1997 1:20 pm

On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, John Turnbull wrote:

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. This happens when I try running the gw
program to create a new database. It happens if I just run the gw program
WITHOUT any variables -- just to get the help screen.

So it's not a database issue, it's the program itself.

Thanks,

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Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Aug 01, 1997 1:43 pm

..

The actual command lines/options you are trying would be helpful.

gw -dnewdb -create

where newdb is the name of a non-existant directory should work.
If there is a 1.x database there (in newdb), it will fail as noted before.

When you use gw with no options it attempts to continue a walk on
the default database. To just get command line help, use the -h option.