[pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Jun 16 15:23:46 CEST 2010


Glen,

> Your conclusion maybe correct but your explanation does not fit my recent experience:

I think that's a completely different problem. The patch-IDs listed by 
David French are definitely of the "NOT FOUND" type I described.

> On June 10th I received the same error (Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Jun/09/10) -
 > ...
> Each patch displayed the "NOT FOUND IN CROSS REFERENCE FILE!" but did download and display each README (note: the "pretend" failed.)
> Here is a sample of the console output:
> 
> 124861 -- = -- --- 999 NOT FOUND IN CROSS REFERENCE FILE!

The only explanation for that I have is that the copy of the 
patchdiag.xref file used here was corrupt. I've checked the file in 
question from Jun/09/10 in my archives, and it looks fine. Do you still 
have this xref file? If so, is it 3298900 bytes long?

> Use of uninitialized value in split at /var/tmp/pca line 926.
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /var/tmp/pca line 927.
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric le (<=) at /var/tmp/pca line 934.

This is even more mysterious. It means that pca couldn't get a 
meaningful output from the uname command. Very strange. And the problem 
just disappeared again?

If you can reproduce the problems, re-run pca with "--debug" and send me 
the output.

Martin.



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