Error Parsing Data File

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting David Brock <david at tubits.com>:

> Wow.  I'm not familiar with strace, but I loaded it, and ran it with -f
> (to catch forked procs) I caught 16MB of output.

It's a very useful tool.

> What should I be looking for?  It's a whole whack of reasonable-ness.

Like I said, the business libraries...

> Grepping through for 'business' gave a whack of lines like these:
>
> stat("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-business-utils.so",
> {st_mode=034117, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-business-utils.so.0", O_RDONLY) =
> 5
> access("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-business-core.so", F_OK) = 0
> access("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-business-core.so.0", F_OK) = 0
> stat("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgw-business-core.so", {st_mode=034117,
> st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgw-business-core.so", O_RDONLY) = 5
> stat("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgnc-business-ledger.so",
> {st_mode=034117, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgnc-business-ledger.so", O_RDONLY) = 5
>
> Shall I send the file off-list?

Nah, just look for libgncmod-business-backend-file, in particular an
'open' and a non-negative result.   Feel free to pastebin if you want,
but I dont need to see the whole file.

Also, this is in /usr/local -- do you also have a version in /usr??

> ;-D
>
> PS: I'll be off-list for more than a week starting tomorrow morning.
> I'll watch for updates and send what I can until I leave, but after
> that, I'll check in upon my return.  I appreciate any input.

Okay.

-derek

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