[mapserver-users] Mapserver --> ESRI sde --> zlib -->core dump

[Russell McOrmond]

   Again, apologies for asking a non-Mapserver question in this forum. 
This is a group of people I suspect might have come up against this 
problem and a solution.

   We're trying to get mapserver to connect to SDE to get RASTER data.  I 
know that mapserver just uses GDAL to handle this type of connection.

   At first I was trying to get this connection to work with GDAL 1.4.4 and 
it wasn't connecting, but with GDAL 1.6.0 it connects fine.  The command 
line gdal_translate from this version can grab data without a problem.

   In mapserver I use:

DATA "SDE:dome,5150,sde,username,password,XDM_XDATA.ELV_NA_GEBCO_BATHYMETRY,RASTER"

   Mapserver will connect to the server ( GDALOpen() isn't NULL), but I 
then get a core dump.  With gdb I found that the problem happens when 
inflate_fast() in libz is called by inflate_codes() in libsde.

   Googling I found this problem being discussed back in 2007 
http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=2&f=1718&t=212867  (Started by Howard 
Butler).  I see a bug tracking ID, but I can't find that ID anywhere but 
in that message (IE: there doesn't seem to be a bug with that ID on 
support.esri.com ).

   Has anyone in this forum bumped up with this problem and found a 
workaround?  I'm currently using ArcSDE 9.2sp5 . Is this something that is 
known to be fixed in 9.3?

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