Re: 'Desc' causes segmentation fault + core dump every time!

In our last grippin episode "jazz" <J_Le_bru_at_excite.co.uk> wrote:
> I don't know if anyone can point me in the right direction but every
 time I
> issue a 'desc' statement on data dictionary tables it causes oracle
 to dump
> core saying theres been a segmentation fault
>
> I'm running Oracle 8.1.5.0.2 on Red Hat Linux 6.2 on standard Athlon
 PC.
> Commands issued through SQL-plus
>
> Everything else seems to be working OK - but I haven't got a clue
 whats
> going on here (cant find anything relevant at oracle technet)
>
> Any ideas about what might be happening would be greatly
 appreciated~! (or a
> rough area to look at - not even sure what a segmentation fault is
 really)
>
> thanks
>
>

There is a bug in 8.1.5, I believe, that will dump core on a describe if the linesize is longer than 80.

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David Fitzjarrell
Oracle Certified DBA


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