Re: [Summary-Talk] strtable.cpp bug?

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>John May wrote:
>>
>>  The failure only seems to happen once every few days.  Should I get
>>  back towards e-mailing you the config and data files back-channel
>>  again?
>
>Yes, that is probably a good idea.

OK, I'll get a hold of you about such when I get some time here.


>  > One thing I'm still confused about here, though, is that the problem
>>  only occurs with the command line version, not with the GUI one?
>
>Are you sure about that? I can think of some reasons why they might be
>different, but many more reasons why they should be the same. With a
>failure that only happens once every several days it is difficult to be
>sure that it is not happening without running for several weeks.

Positive.  It happens reliably once every couple days.  We had the
GUI version running for months, years even without these problems.


>   > Does the GUI version not write out a summary.log file?
>
>Correct, the Macintosh GUI and Windows GUI versions don't write a
>summary.log file. However, if they get an assertion error the entire
>program will fail, not just one of the threads. If you were to have the
>same problem you have been having in the GUI version you *would* notice
>it, even though there isn't a log file.

Does the program quit out, or just go deaf?  Any way to get the GUI
version to write a log file to track any problems though?

	- John

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