Value too large for defined data type...
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From: bi-google on 6 Jan 2010 02:59 On Dec 31 2009, 5:17 pm, Casper H.S. Dik <Casper....(a)Sun.COM> wrote: > maps <mapsiddi...(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> Do I assume that 0.0178 is a line number rather than a part of the fstat > >> call? =A0Where did the value 0x00028C28 come from? =A0I assume it's a > >> pointer to something, but what? > >thats the timestamp from truss output; it wasnt a part of the fstat > >call. > >> I really don't want to try to go back to the beginning of this thread in > >> order to make sense of your post. =A0Try posting a "reproducer"; e.g.. > >> reproduce the error with fewer than, say, fifteen lines of code. > >Well this error didnt come up while executing a code. It started > >appearing all of a sudden on one of our production servers whenever we > >used a pipe ( | ). In the specific case I quoted above, it occurred in > >the following manner : > >zcat foo.txt.Z | diff foo.txt - > >diff: stdin: value too large for defined data type. > > Since a pipe is a file with a small number of bytes, the only possible issue > is the dev number of the pipe. > > Is this a 64 bit and is the system up for quite some time? > > Casper > -- > Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related > to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. > Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may > be fiction rather than truth. Hi Casper We have had the same problem with using PHP-mail(). The server was running over 1000 days without a reboot. The PHP-mail() has stopping suddenly at 2. Jan 2010. After a reboot yesterday it works fine again. Regards Ruedi :-)
From: maps on 7 Jan 2010 10:26 > He is suggesting that you unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH and run the command > again. Unexpected things can happen when you populate > LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > Does the behavior change? No it does not. -maps.
From: tony_curtis32 on 7 Jan 2010 16:14
gerg(a)panix.com (Greg Andrews) writes: > But the real head scratcher is why the Solaris /usr/bin/diff would be > searching for libs under "/opt/app/xxxxx/ncr/tbuild/12.00.00.00", which > looks like an application's build directory. > > Has the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH been set to something on > this server? If so, what happens when it is removed? Is diff being called from within the app, where a different environment has been set (e.g. through a shell script wrapper?). Also, what does "crle" say? hth t |