[GRASS-dev] DBMI troubles on Win32

[Moritz Lennert]

On Fri, March 9, 2007 09:18, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently doing a lot of testing for GRASS 6.3. on the mingw/msys
> platform (the same that comes with QGIS).
>
> There seems to be a problem related to the DBMI protocol. Modules that
> access attribute data via the GRASS DBMI lib have a habit of hanging
> once in a while. I have seen this happen on half a dozen different
> machines with Win2000 and XP.
>
> An example is v.info -c. The module simply hangs and has to be killed
> and restarted until it does its work.
> The strange thing is that I cannot find any pattern here: sometimes
> dozens of runs show no problems at all and sometimes I have to restart a
> module several times until it starts running.
> Also, this seems to concern only the first DB access. I have a module
> here that does hundreds of DB accesses during each run. If the first one
> goes OK, all the others will be fine too ...
>
> I am using the latest 6.3 CVS sources for my tests.
>
> I am at a loss here. Can anyone confirm this problem?

I can't with the native winGRASS (not QGIS), at least not using v.info -c
as a test case within spearfish. But there tables are very small. Which
type of files did you try this on ?

Moritz