Razzak, thanks so much. It looks like your advice was spot-on. I think I might have arrived where you sent me, but it would have taken a lot longer, for sure. I appreciate your prompt and accurate assistance, as it saved me much time and frustration.
Sincerely, Steve in Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:15 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Bug? > At 12:54 PM 5/3/2004 -0500, J. Stephen Wills wrote: > > >I've received an error dialog several times since last week as follows : > > > > CAPTION BAR READS >> R:BASE 2000 v6.5++ - [VRFY2003]: RBG65.EXE - > > Application Error > > > > MESSAGE TEXT READS >> The instruction at "0x00750eaf" referenced > > memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". > > > >Then, another dialog exactly like this one follows. > > > >Then, the following > > > > CAPTION BAR READS >> R:BASE 2000 v6.5++ - [VRFY2003]: RBG65.EXE - > > Application Error > > > > MESSAGE TEXT READS >> The exception unknown software exception > > (0xc0000027) occurred at location 0x7c58f012. > > > > > >It's 6.5++WIN 1.866xRT03 running on WIN2KPRO, plenty of HD space and RAM, > >nothing exotic and never happened before. > > > >I first encountered when a command file attempted to INSERT ... a > >combination of variables and constants into a target table. This command > >was syntactically correct, had been executed many times in the past, and > >threw the same error when run at the command-line. Additionally, all > >table structures and data types checked out correctly. > > > >So, thinking that maybe something was wrong with the meta-data/system > >tables, I figured I'd pack this database. It threw these same > >dialogs. That's when I figured it was time to ask for some input. > > > >So, anybody have any, please? > > > Steve, > > Look like the corrupted index or broken pointers. > > Try the following techniques to take care of that: > > > 01. Start R:BASE 6.5++ for Windows > > 02. CONNECT dbname IDENTIFIED BY user password > > 03. At the R> Prompt: > > PACK INDEX FOR tablename > > This will pack all the indices for the specified table, even in a > Multi-User environment. > > Or > > PACK INDEX > > This will pack all the indices for currently CONNected database, even > in a Multi-User environment. > > Now try the same INSERT routine and see what happens. If that doesn't help, > then RELOAD the database. > > For complete details: http://www.razzak.com/fte > > From The Edge: Finding and Fixing Broken Indexes (04/30/2002) > > Have fun! > > Very Best R:egards, > > Razzak. >
