[Dxspider-support] Node Crash

[Dirk Koopman]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 10:45 -0700, Lee Sawkins wrote:
> My VE7CC-1 cluster has crashed twice in the last two days.  Both times
> it crashed at exactly the same line of the program, with exactly the
> same complaint.  DXSpider V1.52 build 61.504
> 
> Lee
> 
> 1147527172^<- I VE7CC PC16^DB0SPC-7^DJ7OL - 0^DG9FE - 1^DF5WA - 1^DF2PY
> - 1^DK3RA - 1^DL1SP - 1^DF4WQ - 1^DL6GV - 1^DF5JE - 1^DK6WA - 1^DL8ZT -
> 1^DF7PW - 1^DJ0FV - 1^DL4FAY - 1^DC3FR - 1^DR5T - 1^LX8DL - 0^F5HSF -
> 1^H92^
> 1147527172^Can't call method "add_user" on an undefined value at
> /spider/perl/DXProt.pm line 845, <GEN5335> line 293.

The usual reason for this is a corrupt user record. 

> 1147527172^	DXProt::handle_16('DXProt=HASH(0x4057390)', 16,
> 'PC16^DB0SPC-7^DJ7OL - 0^DG9FE - 1^DF5WA - 1^DF2PY - 1^DK3RA - 1^...',
> 'VE7CC', 'PC16', 'DB0SPC-7', 'DJ7OL - 0', 'DG9FE - 1', ...) called at
> /spider/perl/DXProt.pm line 367
> 1147527172^	DXProt::normal('DXProt=HASH(0x4057390)',
> 'PC16^DB0SPC-7^DJ7OL - 0^DG9FE - 1^DF5WA - 1^DF2PY - 1^DK3RA - 1^...')
> called at /spider/perl/DXChannel.pm line 713
> 1147527172^	DXChannel::process() called at cluster.pl line 507
> 1147527172^DXChannel EI7JQ destroyed (59)

However, looking at the code, I can see that there (at least) one way
that this might happen.

I would just try regenerating your user file from user_asc, but before
that you might try doing a del/user DB0SPC-7 and seeing what happens.

Dirk