[Antelope] Fwd: schema compilation(?) problem on 4.9/PowerPC

Phil Cummins phil.cummins at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 19:48:53 CDT 2009 

I should have posted this to the list. Problem solved. Thanks for the info,
though, Jennifer.


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From: Phil Cummins <phil.cummins at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Antelope] schema compilation(?) problem on 4.9/PowerPC
To: "Dr. Kent Lindquist" <kent at lindquistconsulting.com>


Hi Ken,

Thanks! I fixed all the definition files as you suggested and it doesn't
report an error now. However, my script still returned an invalid pointer -
that turned out to be a different problem. Anyway, many thanks for the
advice, dbe no longer reports those annoying error messages. Your Python
interface works great, by the way!

- Phil


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Dr. Kent Lindquist <
kent at lindquistconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Hello Phil,
>
> One thing that might cause this is indeed corruption in the schema
> definition files, and that is the first thing to check. However, you have to
> check more than just the definition file for the table in which the error
> crops up (e.g. "dlsite" in your case below). You have to check all schema
> and schema extension files that might use this particular attribute. For
> example, on my copy of Antelope (admittedly 4.10 on Intel Mac), the "model"
> attribute is used in all of the dlsite, digitizer, dlcalwf, and seismometer
> tables:
>
>        % pwd
>        /opt/antelope/4.10/data/schemas/css3.0.ext
>
>        % grep "Attribute model" *
>        digitizer:Attribute model
>        dlcalwf:Attribute model
>        dlsite:Attribute model
>        seismometer:Attribute model
>        %
>
> The corruption could be in any one of these (in principle it could also be
> in the base schema $ANTELOPE/data/schemas/css3.0, but that one doesn't
> define the "model" attribute).
>
> Antelope allows an attribute that is used in multiple tables to be defined
> in any one of the supporting definition files, and in fact the "Attribute"
> definition block can appear multiple times, once in each of the files in
> which it is used, as long as the repetitious definitions are completely
> consistent with one another. Generally this repetition is done, which makes
> the tables less sensitive to load order etc. The first time (during schema
> parsing) that Antelope encounters one of these Attribute blocks, it merely
> loads in the newly defined Attribute. When Antelope sees subsequent
> definition blocks for the same attribute, it double-checks that they are
> consistent with the original. Thus, the comparison you're seeing below is
> presumably of two separate definitions of the "model" attribute in two
> separate extension tables.
>
> For the fields in question that are causing you problems, you should hunt
> down all the extension tables in which they are used, looking for errors.
> Most if not all of the extension tables you list are in various places in
> the Antelope contributed-code repository. The rest should be available on
> the Antelope CD.
>
> Best regards,
> Kent
>
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Phil Cummins wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I am using Antelope 4.9 on a PowerPC Macintosh Powerbook. Antelope_update
>> says that all patches are up-to-date (granted, this isn't saying much).
>>
>> I am developing a script and running it on a test database I created some
>> time ago from an IRIS volume using seed2db. I have used this database many
>> times with no problem. I have also tried recreating the database, again
>> using seed2db. Now I find that, whenever I access the wfdisc table, even
>> using dbe, I get the following error:
>>
>> % dbe smtra_2007
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: formats differ: '%-15s' != '%-15'
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: conflicting Attribute model in schema css3.0
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: db : bad attribute at ';' while compiling
>> attribute 'model' near line #60 of
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/data/schemas/css3.0.ext/dlsite
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: formats differ: '%-15s' != '%-15'
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: conflicting Attribute manu in schema css3.0
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: db : bad attribute at ';' while compiling
>> attribute 'manu' near line #68 of
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/data/schemas/css3.0.ext/dlsite
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: Parsing error in input schema
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: failed to compile database extension
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/data/schemas/css3.0.ext/dlsite
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: Bad table id -102 in db pointer
>>    ** repeated 3 times
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: formats differ: '%-25s' != '%-25'
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: conflicting Attribute hostname in schema css3.0
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: db : bad attribute at ';' while compiling
>> attribute 'hostname' near line #72 of
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/data/schemas/css3.0.ext/qctests
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: Parsing error in input schema
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/bin/dbe: failed to compile database extension
>> /opt/antelope/4.9/data/schemas/css3.0.ext/qctests
>>
>> This is baffling to me. The files in $ANTELOPE/data/schemas/css3.0ext seem
>> to say, e.g., '%-15s', as i think they should. What is antelope comparing to
>> that thinks the format should be '%-15'? Although dbe seems to actually work
>> OK, my script seems to end up with a bad dbpointer when I look up the wfdisc
>> table. And, this is happening with at least one other database that I used
>> to access with no problem. Could one of Antelope's data files been
>> corrupted, and if so, is there any way for me to tell which one?
>>
>> Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Phil
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