Re: [gnome-db] Crash connecting to Sybase 11.0.3 with freetds .61

[Steve Fosdick <lists pelvoux nildram co uk>]

On 11 Apr 2003 16:31:54 -0600
"Fernando Medina, Jr." <fmedina grupo-uno com> wrote:

> Nope, same crash. my usual setting: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> changed to en_US, same crash.

Was this resolved?

I had a similar problem connecting to Oracle from mergeant and that was
caused by a combintation of two things:

1. For consistency the user name for a connection was changed to use the
   name (key) USER within a DSN rather than USERNAME.

2. When the Oracle provider fetched a user name from the DSN it didn't
   check if the returned value was NULL and just tried to use it anyway.

The Sybase provider doesn't appear to check what it fetches from the DSN
either so you could be having the same trouble.  If this is the problem
then you will find you can work around it by entering the
username/password at connection time rather than relying on the stored
values.  If the work-around works then the permanent solution will be to
update the provider.

Steve.