MapServer crashes on multiple REQUIRES?

[Ethan Alpert]

There are significant gotchas when upgrading from such an old version. Specifically you had better check your mapfile because 4.6 enforces many mapfile syntax rules that were kind of loose in older versions. If you did not follow the spec exactly when writing your mapfiles you'll definitely run into these kinds of problems.

-e

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Doyon, Jean-Francois
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:09 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer crashes on multiple REQUIRES?


Hello,

I was trying to migrate a MapFile from 3.6.6 to 4.6.0, and suddenly the MapServer CGI would die, and the web server return a 500 ...

I tried upgrading to 4.6.1, didn't help ...

After some fiddling around, I've tracked it down to the use of "REQUIRES".

It looks as if I can only have ONE layer with a "REQUIRES" ... The minute I have more than that, mapserver seems to crash.

This is a problem, as the mapfile has ~380 layers, and lots of REQUIRES :) As mentionned this mapfile works fine on 3.6.6 ...

Oh, and I just tried rendering using shp2img, and I get a segfault ...

Just wanted to check here before I file this as a bug, anybody run into this? Have a quick solution?

Thanks,

Jean-François Doyon
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