Re: DBD::Sybase context allocation routine failed

The OCS directory should be pointed to by
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS; it's not clear from the text that
this is actually happening. Verification can be done
using isql, which separates that issue from perl
programming issues.

The environment can be checked at runtime in the perl
script in one of two ways:

1. Use the debugger to look at %ENV
2. Put this line of code in the script:
print ($_,$ENV{$_}) foreach (keys %ENV);

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that the open
client libraries are dynamically linked and therefore
simply adjusting the sybase variables to point to the
correct directories suffices. So you don't have to
re-install whenever a sybase upgrade is done.

regards,

David

--- Michael Peppler <mpeppler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Levine wrote:
Hi,

Is there a way to determine which libraries the
DBI/DBD used when it was
installed? This information is not in perl -V.
There are several
different SYBASE home directories on this server
each with
sub-directories for ASE or OCS versions. (I didn't
install it -- I
assume that this can be configured somehow in the
makefile or otherwise
when installing.)

I am now getting a more specific error message
when I set SYBASE to OCS.
The dba says that this config file,
'objectid/dat', is used by ASE not OCS.

Your DBA is wrong... :-)


/The context allocation routine failed. The
following problem caused the
failure: Invalid context version. The context
allocation routine failed
when it tried to load localization files!! One or
more following
problems may caused the failure Your sybase home
directory is
/home/sybase/OCS-12_5. Check the environment
variable SYBASE if it is
not the one you want! Cannot access file
/home/sybase/OCS-12_5/config/objectid.dat/


OK - so now the problem is that your SYBASE env
variable points to
/home/sybase/OCS-12_5. If that directory does
include the Sybase libs
then SYBASE should point to /home/sybase, so that it
finds
/home/sybase/config/objectid.dat.

Michael
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