Bug Notes for GemStone v6.5.6

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Number Description Impact Last Updated
19246 "Audit errors" during object audit and/or page audit
28401 "Error 997: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress." Info 10/5/07
28208 #rtErrLostOtHandlingFailed while in a transaction
29578 #transactionless mode incorrect from System(c)>>cacheStatistics: 9/12/03
41426 Abort crashes with "leaf not found for bit in splitBitList" Critical 4/4/11
40620 Account disabled as StaleAccount when gem in later timezone 4/28/10
24015 AllSymbols collection is not scalable
38086 Assigning object to extent may not succeed Info 2/28/08
8199 BackupLog shows backups that failed with bad arg
39639 ByteArray methods may fail 1/23/09
39740 ByteArray with DateTimes can't be used cross platform 1/20/10
29854 Cannot backup/restore to tape on Linux 11/3/03
27482 Cannot run pageaudit from root directory on Windows 7/11/11
39356 Change in character collation sequence can break indexes Critical 8/19/08
15350 Comparison of nil DateTime yields unexpected result
25456 Compressed file names without .gz appended
27660 continueTransaction after password change fails
12685 continueTransaction misleading in some cases involving rc objects
23508 Correction for poor performance using _asIdentityBag on large Bags/Set
31180 Creating symbols via GciCreateByteObj fails 4/4/05
29752 Cross-platform pageaudit has false-positive errors. 10/28/03
15521 Date does not restrict year inputs
19449 DateTime creation on boundaries of Daylight Savings Time
11202 Do not copy tape as a test for a readable backup file 11/19/07
33644 During backup, delayed response to lack of free space 2/2/06
41342 Encoded size ByteArray comparison method primitive failures 2/24/11
33065 Error on restore of backups of repositories writing tranlogs to /dev/null 1/31/06
42708 Excessive #mfcGcPageBufSize causes ALL data to be removed Critical 3/6/13
41135 Excessive numbers of objects voted down after MFC 2/22/11
12778 Execution stack overflow error from Dictionary =
12891 Failed commits can give inconsistent view of data Critical
22542 GBS sessions cannot respond to sigAborts when control passes outside Smalltalk
42430 GEM_PGSVR_COMPRESS_PAGE_TRANSFERS does not change behavior 4/15/13
34314 auditInternalStructures fails for some UnorderedCollection subclasses 4/7/06
26396 copydbf of a compressed gzip file fails
33866 copydbf to Linux character raw partitions fails 2/1/06
31689 doesNotUnderstand can corrupt stack 4/4/05
31738 Exception #rtErrDoesNotUnderstand can fail with SEGV 4/4/05
39922 findString:startingAt: incorrect for empty string argument 4/10/09
25124 fullBackupCompressedTo: fails for raw character partitions
12729 fullBackupTo succeeds to unintended location
23975 GCI user actions may have incorrect results following a full backup
32155 GciSoftBreak will not interrupt sleeping session 4/4/05
28330 Gems can crash with page cache fault during stone shutdown
28546 Gems with static user action code die with SIGILL 5/15/08
14023 GemStone does not like a space in its directory name
10665 GemStone environment variables work differently for Windows services 9/9/03
26117 GsFile class>>contentsAndTypesOfDirectory:onClient: reports files as directories
30202 GsFile doesn't use 64 bit file I/O 3/8/04
12981 Hash values change on modification of collection elements
12819 IdentityDictionary passivate, activate returns unequal Dictionary Info 3/21/11
31348 Idle sessions don't immediately exit on stopSession: Info 5/15/08
29095 In tranlog full condition, sessions may timeout and be killed
22722 Incomplete implementation of BinaryFloat (C)>> status
11611 Incorrect unresolved external references cause errors at run-time
24961 Increasing #mfcGcPageBufSize can have adverse effects Info 6/7/04
28789 Inherited NRS value may cause remote SPC startup problems
27268 Interrupted recovery can lead to page audit errors
29485 Language file compilation does not handle % as documented 9/15/03
27279 Limit on number of netldi spawned process on Windows 7/19/06
13355 listInstances results may include dead objects 11/20/07
13660 Login with blank in stone name fails with wrong error
39679 Logout with logins suspended rereads configuration file 7/29/10
18525 max values for gcGem parameters silently restricted to max SmallInteger values
27338 Missing tranlogs are not detected during restore
37973 Multiple Stones can attach to SAN extents causing corruption Critical 11/15/07
15190 Network crash may prevent Gems from committing 12/3/07
15073 New instances of UserProfile added to AllUsers, not to the receiver 11/19/07
29627 Nonblocking GCI function may SIGSEGV on Linux 10/28/03
23746 Object audit can inappropriately re-enable logins
41132 objErrAlreadyExists during dead object reclaim Critical 1/21/11
27201 On Windows, topaz -l doesn't clean up after forced termination 7/11/11
27089 OS network drives can confuse GemStone local/remote status Critical
41834 Page leak in Reclaim GcGem 4/9/12
34067 performOnServer: fails if TMP not writable 11/2/07
42090 Problems with AIX on POWER7 4/9/12
30982 Problems with debug step command on untilTrue:/untilFalse: 4/4/05
30710 ProcessorTime is always 0 6/25/04
8425 Read lock on temporary object prevents a commit from making it permanent
22170 reclaimAll can fail immediately after markForCollection Info
27065 Recovery fails with unused extents 11/21/07
9537 Reject queries along path containing * return wrong result
36966 Remote caches do not use SHR_PAGE_CACHE_LOCKED setting 8/30/07
39900 Remote cross-platform MFC has risk of gem crash 1/20/10
27082 Repository >> restoreStatusNextFileId not aware of final fileId Info
42354 restoreFromBackup(s):newSystemUserPassword can fail 6/21/12
42140 STN_MAX_SESSIONS close to upper limit of 8192 causes coredump 4/15/13
29617 restoreReclaimPages primitive errors reported incorrectly 9/12/03
33298 restoreReclaimPages ties up pages until next tranlog 10/10/05
10638 Service may not start when GemStone resides on network drive 9/9/03
27908 Set-valued indexes are known to have problems 8/11/03
23073 SharedDependencyList inefficiencies may cause performance issues
29830 SIGUSR1 stack print mechanism fails during logout 4/4/05
27091 Some statmonitor statistics not updated for remote shared page cache 11/26/07
28728 Some system-level statistics are incorrect on Windows 7/11/11
41013 SortedCollection >> includes: may fail to find elements 10/21/10
29670 Specification of remote replicate tranlogs may inadvertently succeed 10/28/03
13083 Stack breakpoint at end of method
40652 stack corruption returning from ClientForwarder send 7/11/11
21365 startstone or login fail with misleading shmget() error
28821 Statically linked custom gems broken on Linux 12/3/07
15520 Stone hangs when repository is full 6/10/08
41821 Stone shutdown if pagemanager is not session 1, Critical 10/26/11
40590 Stone stop as service errors, does not shut down cleanly Critical 4/29/10
29520 Stone will not start with null primary/valid replicate tranlog directories Info 8/27/03
30896 String>>asNumber fails with radix > 10 and character digits 4/4/05
4390 String>>at:equals: is inconsistent for arg ''
21888 System timeGmt95 off by 72 minutes, 48 seconds
20341 Temporary object audit errors after restore
11247 The gemsetup.sh and gemsetup.csh scripts set path incorrectly 11/14/07
27227 Topaz output suppressed while executing from .topazini
28103 Tranlog full condition may cause stone to crash 3/22/04
29855 Tranlog sequences can contain "Fork-In-Time" 10/29/03
41794 Turning on stale account aging may disable accounts 4/9/12
11976 Unclear error message when attempting to use GciUserActionShutdown incorrectly Info 6/10/08
30820 Unused temporary variable result in incorrect instance variable assignment 6/18/04
36273 Use of TZ environment variable results in incorrect Times. 3/6/07
29242 VSD may fail to start with Tcl 8.3 installed
38988 VSD no longer shipped with Windows server Info 7/21/08
41366 VSD problems with Windows 7 Info 3/8/11
10849 waitstone -1 on stone performing restores does not respond
28871 Windows 2000 Advanced Server - statmonitor does not exit on stone shutdown

last updated: 04/15/13