[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #357: Database error - inflate failed

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Fri Apr 10 09:39:40 BST 2009


#357: Database error - inflate failed
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 Reporter:  jchapin          |        Owner:  olly  
     Type:  defect           |       Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:        
Component:  Xapian-bindings  |      Version:  1.0.11
 Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:                   |    Blockedby:        
 Platform:  Linux            |     Blocking:        
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Comment(by richard):

 Ok, well, it certainly sounds like a problem with the zlib library on
 CentOS 4.7.

 The zlib website says: "Version 1.2.3 eliminates potential security
 vulnerabilities in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, so all users of those versions
 should upgrade immediately."  I assume that the 1.2.1.2-1.2 package you
 have has some security fixes backported to it by CentOS - it's possible
 that there's a bug fix in 1.2.3 which hasn't been backported, or that they
 did the backport incorrectly.

 To try and work this out, I've just been browsing around, but I can't find
 a way to download a copy of the source for the zlib 1.2.1.2-1.2 package
 from centos.  I'd like to try a compile using that version on my system,
 to see if it fails in a similar way to that which you're seeing.  If so,
 we'll have to tell configure that that version of zlib isn't suitable for
 use with Xapian.

 Can you try running the Xapian test suite on the centos 4.7 box?  Just run
 "make check" in the xapian-core directory.  Let us know if there are any
 failures (and if so, what they say).

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