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

David Fitzjarrell wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> David Fitzjarrell
> Oracle Certified DBA
>
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I think its 120 ... not sure

I've seen a lot of Oracle scripts lately that are putting

"set lines 119" in the header

HTH

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