[OPEN-ILS-DEV] libxml2 router issue on Debian Etch

[Bill Erickson]

Hi all,

Just a heads up...  I just found what appears to be a bug in libxml2  
version on 2.6.27.dfsg-4 on Debian Etch, which is the latest stable  
libxml2 release (as of late August).  After parsing a certain number of  
jabber messages within a given SAX parser context, it just "stops  
working".  In my test environment (2.6.18-5-amd64), it always breaks  
between 26k and 31k messages.  This manifests itself as failed messages to  
the OpenSRF router:  the requests go in, but they never come out the other  
end.

You can see what version you have installed with

$ dpkg -l libxml2 libxml2-dev

I downgraded my machine to libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-2_amd64 and  
libxml2-dev_2.6.27.dfsg-2_amd64 (to match other local machines) and  
problem solved.

Finding old Debian packages isn't always easy, so I've put our AMD 64  
versions on the open-ils.org site in case they can be of use to anyone:

http://open-ils.org/~erickson/libxml2_2.6.27.dfsg-2_amd64.deb
http://open-ils.org/~erickson/libxml2-dev_2.6.27.dfsg-2_amd64.deb

I'll try to isolate the problem so I can send something useful to the  
libxml2 folks.

Thanks,

-b

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Bill Erickson
| VP, Software Development & Integration
| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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