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PHP - not returning a count number for filled array...

- by Phil Jackson

Morning, this is eating me alive so Im hoping it's not something stupid, lol. $arrg = array(); if( str_word_count( $str ) > 1 ) { $input_arr = explode(' ', $str); die(print_r($input_arr)); $count = count($input_arr); die($count); above is part of a function. when i run i get; > Array ( > [0] => luke > [1] => snowden > [2] => create > [3] => develop > [4] => web > [5] => applications > [6] => sites > [7] => alse > [8] => dab > [9] => hand > [10] => design > [11] => love > [12] => helping > [13] => business > [14] => thrive > [15] => latest > [16] => industry > [17] => developer > [18] => act > [19] => designs > [20] => php > [21] => mysql > [22] => jquery > [23] => ajax > [24] => xhtml > [25] => css > [26] => de > [27] => montfont > [28] => award > [29] => advanced > [30] => programming > [31] => taught > [32] => development > [33] => years > [34] => experience > [35] => topic > [36] => fully > [37] => qualified > [38] => electrician > [39] => city > [40] => amp > [41] => guilds > [42] => level ) Which im expecting; run this however and nothing is returned!?!?! $arrg = array(); if( str_word_count( $str ) > 1 ) { $input_arr = explode(' ', $str); //die(print_r($input_arr)); $count = count($input_arr); die($count); can anyone see anything that my eyes cant?? regards, Phil

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Dns caching for sockets

- by Poma

I'm connecting to some websites through socks proxy server. In my case its very good to implement dns cache, so proxy don't need to resolve website's ip address. So, I performed DNS lookup, but don't know where to supply IP address. mySocket.Connect uses proxy's ip address so it isn't right place. I tried to place it in http header GET http://11.22.33.44/index.html HTTP/1.1 - this doesn't work (even in browser) since website is on virtual hosting. It seems that Host header is right place for resolved ip address. Am I right? Will proxy resolve host name (since it's still there in GET header) or not?

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SQL IO and SAN troubles

- by James

We are running two servers with identical software setup but different hardware. The first one is a VM on VMWare on a normal tower server with dual core xeons, 16 GB RAM and a 7200 RPM drive. The second one is a VM on XenServer on a powerful brand new rack server, with 4 core xeons and shared storage. We are running Dynamics AX 2012 and SQL Server 2008 R2. When I insert 15 000 records into a table on the slow tower server (as a test), it does so in 13 seconds. On the fast server it takes 33 seconds. I re-ran these tests several times with the same results. I have a feeling it is some sort of IO bottleneck, so I ran SQLIO on both. Here are the results for the slow tower server: C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>test.bat C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -o8 -frandom -b8 -BH -LS C:\Tes tFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 14318180 counts per second 8 threads writing for 120 secs to file C:\TestFile.dat using 8KB random IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: C:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 226.97 MBs/sec: 1.77 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 0 Avg_Latency(ms): 281 Max_Latency(ms): 467 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99 C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -t8 -s120 -o8 -frandom -b8 -BH -LS C:\Tes tFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 14318180 counts per second 8 threads reading for 120 secs from file C:\TestFile.dat using 8KB random IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: C:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 91.34 MBs/sec: 0.71 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 14 Avg_Latency(ms): 699 Max_Latency(ms): 1124 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -o8 -fsequential -b64 -BH -LS C :\TestFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 14318180 counts per second 8 threads writing for 120 secs to file C:\TestFile.dat using 64KB sequential IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: C:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 1094.50 MBs/sec: 68.40 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 0 Avg_Latency(ms): 58 Max_Latency(ms): 467 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -t8 -s120 -o8 -fsequential -b64 -BH -LS C :\TestFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 14318180 counts per second 8 threads reading for 120 secs from file C:\TestFile.dat using 64KB sequential IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: C:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 1155.31 MBs/sec: 72.20 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 17 Avg_Latency(ms): 55 Max_Latency(ms): 205 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 Here are the results of the fast rack server: C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>test.bat C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -o8 -frandom -b8 -BH -LS E:\Tes tFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads writing for 120 secs to file E:\TestFile.dat using 8KB random IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) open_file: CreateFile (E:\TestFile.dat for write): The system cannot find the pa th specified. exiting C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -t8 -s120 -o8 -frandom -b8 -BH -LS E:\Tes tFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads reading for 120 secs from file E:\TestFile.dat using 8KB random IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) open_file: CreateFile (E:\TestFile.dat for read): The system cannot find the pat h specified. exiting C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -o8 -fsequential -b64 -BH -LS E :\TestFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads writing for 120 secs to file E:\TestFile.dat using 64KB sequential IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) open_file: CreateFile (E:\TestFile.dat for write): The system cannot find the pa th specified. exiting C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -t8 -s120 -o8 -fsequential -b64 -BH -LS E :\TestFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads reading for 120 secs from file E:\TestFile.dat using 64KB sequential IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) open_file: CreateFile (E:\TestFile.dat for read): The system cannot find the pat h specified. exiting C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>test.bat C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -o8 -frandom -b8 -BH -LS c:\Tes tFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads writing for 120 secs to file c:\TestFile.dat using 8KB random IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: c:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 2575.77 MBs/sec: 20.12 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 1 Avg_Latency(ms): 24 Max_Latency(ms): 655 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 5 8 9 9 9 8 5 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -t8 -s120 -o8 -frandom -b8 -BH -LS c:\Tes tFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads reading for 120 secs from file c:\TestFile.dat using 8KB random IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: c:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 1141.39 MBs/sec: 8.91 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 1 Avg_Latency(ms): 55 Max_Latency(ms): 652 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 91 C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -o8 -fsequential -b64 -BH -LS c :\TestFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads writing for 120 secs to file c:\TestFile.dat using 64KB sequential IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: c:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 341.37 MBs/sec: 21.33 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 5 Avg_Latency(ms): 186 Max_Latency(ms): 120037 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -t8 -s120 -o8 -fsequential -b64 -BH -LS c :\TestFile.dat sqlio v1.5.SG using system counter for latency timings, 62500000 counts per second 8 threads reading for 120 secs from file c:\TestFile.dat using 64KB sequential IOs enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding buffering set to use hardware disk cache (but not file cache) using current size: 5120 MB for file: c:\TestFile.dat initialization done CUMULATIVE DATA: throughput metrics: IOs/sec: 1024.07 MBs/sec: 64.00 latency metrics: Min_Latency(ms): 5 Avg_Latency(ms): 61 Max_Latency(ms): 81632 histogram: ms: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24+ %: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 Three of the four tests are, to my mind, within reasonable parameters for the rack server. However, the 64 write test is incredibly slow on the rack server. (68 mb/sec on the slow tower vs 21 mb/s on the rack). The read speed for 64k also seems slow. Is this enough to say there is some sort of bottleneck with the shared storage? I need to know if I can take this evidence and say we need to launch an investigation into this. Any help is appreciated.

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PHP Fatal error, trying to request method inside model multiple times

- by Tom

The error message [23-Mar-2010 08:36:16] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare humanize() (previously declared in /Users/tmclssns/Sites/nadar/nadar/trunk/webapp/application/filer/models/Filer/Aggregate.php:133) in /Users/tmclssns/Sites/nadar/nadar/trunk/webapp/application/filer/models/Filer/Aggregate.php on line 133 I have a "Filer" model which contains several methods to generate graphs. Each method in there related to generating graphs has the suffix "Graph" in the method name. As we have some performance issues, I try to render the graphs in advance (using cron) instead of rendering them on each request. The code below is what I came up with: public function generategraphsAction() { $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(); $config = Zend_Registry::get('config'); $id = $this->_getParam('filerid'); $filer = new Filer($id); $filer_methods = get_class_methods($filer); foreach ($filer_methods as $filer_method) { if (preg_match('/^(.*)Graph$/i', $filer_method, $matches)) { $path = $config->imaging_caching_dir . "/$id/{$matches[1]}.png"; $filer->$matches[0]($path); } } // var_dump(get_class_methods($filer)); die; } The result from the var_dump(), when uncommented, is: array 0 => string '__construct' (length=11) 1 => string 'find_by_name' (length=12) 2 => string 'getPartner' (length=10) 3 => string 'getSlots' (length=8) 4 => string 'getGroups' (length=9) 5 => string 'grouplist' (length=9) 6 => string 'getAggregates' (length=13) 7 => string 'getVolumes' (length=10) 8 => string 'getAggregateVolumes' (length=19) 9 => string 'getShelves' (length=10) 10 => string 'getAutoSupportHistory' (length=21) 11 => string 'getAutoSupportMail' (length=18) 12 => string 'getOrphans' (length=10) 13 => string 'getAll' (length=6) 14 => string 'getDiskRevOverview' (length=18) 15 => string 'getDiskTypeOverview' (length=19) 16 => string 'getDiskTypeSizeFunctionOverview' (length=31) 17 => string 'getLicenses' (length=11) 18 => string 'removeGroup' (length=11) 19 => string 'addGroup' (length=8) 20 => string 'hasGroup' (length=8) 21 => string 'aggdefaultGraph' (length=15) 22 => string 'aggbarGraph' (length=11) 23 => string 'voldefaultGraph' (length=15) 24 => string 'volbarGraph' (length=11) 25 => string 'replicationGraph' (length=16) 26 => string 'getReplicationData' (length=18) 27 => string 'humanize' (length=8) 28 => string 'getFiler' (length=8) 29 => string 'getOptions' (length=10) 30 => string 'getCifsInfo' (length=11) 31 => string 'getCifsStats' (length=12) 32 => string '__get' (length=5) 33 => string 'tr' (length=2) 34 => string 'trs' (length=3) 35 => string 'fieldList' (length=9) The generategraphsAction() method finds the 'Graph' methods correctly: array 0 => string 'aggdefaultGraph' (length=15) 1 => string 'aggdefault' (length=10) array 0 => string 'aggbarGraph' (length=11) 1 => string 'aggbar' (length=6) array 0 => string 'voldefaultGraph' (length=15) 1 => string 'voldefault' (length=10) array 0 => string 'volbarGraph' (length=11) 1 => string 'volbar' (length=6) array 0 => string 'replicationGraph' (length=16) 1 => string 'replication' (length=11) However when the first graph is generated, it generates the above listed PHP fatal error. Anyone can come up with a solution to this? I tried to pass by reference or switch a few things around (like re declare the Filer model, $current_filer = new Filer($id); and unset() it again after the request, but resulted in the same error) without much success. The referenced method "humanize" isn't used for anything I'm doing at the moment, but belongs to the Model because it's used in several other places. Of course, removing the method is not really an option right now, and the model contains several other methods as well so I assume if I just move the humanize method around, it will generate an error on the next one. For reference, the humanize() method: public function humanize ($kbytes, $unit = null) { // KiloByte, Megabyte, GigaByte, TeraByte, PetaByte, ExaByte, ZettaByte, YottaByte $units = array('KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB'); if (null !== $units) { $i = array_search(substr($unit, -2), $units); if (! $i) { $i = floor((strlen($kbytes) - 1) / 3); } } else { $i = floor((strlen($kbytes) - 1) / 3); } $newSize = round($kbytes / pow(1024, $i), 2); return $newSize . $units[$i]; } Thanks in advance for the help offered.

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Fetch main model and translations in one query with globalize2

- by J. Pablo Fernández

Is there a way to fetch the model and the translations in one query when using globalize2? For example, having a model called Language which have two fields, code and name of which the second is translatable I do the following: en = Language.find_by_code("en") and it runs this query: SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE * FROM `languages` WHERE (`languages`.`code` = 'en') LIMIT 1 and when I do: en.name it runs: SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE * FROM `language_translations` WHERE (`language_translations`.language_id = 123 AND (`language_translations`.`locale` IN ('en','root'))) and if I do it again it'll re-run the query. Is there a way to fetch all the translated data in the first query? I've tried: en = Language.find_by_code("en", :joins => "JOIN language_translations ON language_translations.language_id = languages.id") but it made no difference. UPDATE: this is being discussed as an issue in globalize2: http://github.com/joshmh/globalize2/issues/#issue/33

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What's wrong with Bundler working with RubyGems to push a Git repo to Heroku?

- by stanigator

I've made sure that all the files are in the root of the repository as recommended in this discussion. However, as I follow the instructions in this section of the book, I can't get through the section without the problems. What do you think is happening with my system that's causing the error? I have no clue at the moment of what the problem means despite reading the following in the log. Thanks in advance for your help! stanley@ubuntu:~/rails_sample/first_app$ git push heroku master Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '50.19.85.156' to the list of known hosts. Counting objects: 96, done. Compressing objects: 100% (79/79), done. Writing objects: 100% (96/96), 28.81 KiB, done. Total 96 (delta 22), reused 0 (delta 0) -----> Heroku receiving push -----> Ruby/Rails app detected -----> Installing dependencies using Bundler version 1.2.0.pre Running: bundle install --without development:test --path vendor/bundle --binstubs bin/ --deployment Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/....... Installing rake (0.9.2.2) Installing i18n (0.6.0) Installing multi_json (1.3.5) Installing activesupport (3.2.3) Installing builder (3.0.0) Installing activemodel (3.2.3) Installing erubis (2.7.0) Installing journey (1.0.3) Installing rack (1.4.1) Installing rack-cache (1.2) Installing rack-test (0.6.1) Installing hike (1.2.1) Installing tilt (1.3.3) Installing sprockets (2.1.3) Installing actionpack (3.2.3) Installing mime-types (1.18) Installing polyglot (0.3.3) Installing treetop (1.4.10) Installing mail (2.4.4) Installing actionmailer (3.2.3) Installing arel (3.0.2) Installing tzinfo (0.3.33) Installing activerecord (3.2.3) Installing activeresource (3.2.3) Installing coffee-script-source (1.3.3) Installing execjs (1.3.2) Installing coffee-script (2.2.0) Installing rack-ssl (1.3.2) Installing json (1.7.3) with native extensions Installing rdoc (3.12) Installing thor (0.14.6) Installing railties (3.2.3) Installing coffee-rails (3.2.2) Installing jquery-rails (2.0.2) Using bundler (1.2.0.pre) Installing rails (3.2.3) Installing sass (3.1.18) Installing sass-rails (3.2.5) Installing sqlite3 (1.3.6) with native extensions Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for sqlite3.h... no sqlite3.h is missing. Try 'port install sqlite3 +universal' or 'yum install sqlite-devel' and check your shared library search path (the location where your sqlite3 shared library is located). *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby --with-sqlite3-dir --without-sqlite3-dir --with-sqlite3-include --without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include --with-sqlite3-lib --without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib --enable-local --disable-local Gem files will remain installed in /tmp/build_3tplrxvj7qa81/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sqlite3-1.3.6 for inspection. Results logged to /tmp/build_3tplrxvj7qa81/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sqlite3-1.3.6/ext/sqlite3/gem_make.out An error occurred while installing sqlite3 (1.3.6), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install sqlite3 -v '1.3.6'` succeeds before bundling. ! ! Failed to install gems via Bundler. ! ! Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Ruby/rails app To [email protected]:growing-mountain-2788.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:growing-mountain-2788.git' ------Gemfile------------------------ As requested, here's the auto-generated gemfile: source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'rails', '3.2.3' # Bundle edge Rails instead: # gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git' gem 'sqlite3' gem 'json' # Gems used only for assets and not required # in production environments by default. group :assets do gem 'sass-rails', '~> 3.2.3' gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1' # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes # gem 'therubyracer', :platform => :ruby gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3' end gem 'jquery-rails' # To use ActiveModel has_secure_password # gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '~> 3.0.0' # To use Jbuilder templates for JSON # gem 'jbuilder' # Use unicorn as the app server # gem 'unicorn' # Deploy with Capistrano # gem 'capistrano' # To use debugger # gem 'ruby-debug'

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Why are my Opteron cores running at only 75% capacity each? (25% CPU idle)

- by Tim Cooper

We've just taken delivery of a powerful 32-core AMD Opteron server with 128Gb. We have 2 x 6272 CPU's with 16 cores each. We are running a big long-running java task on 30 threads. We have the NUMA optimisations for Linux and java turned on. Our Java threads are mainly using objects that are private to that thread, sometimes reading memory that other threads will be reading, and very very occasionally writing or locking shared objects. We can't explain why the CPU cores are 25% idle. Below is a dump of "top": top - 23:06:38 up 1 day, 23 min, 3 users, load average: 10.84, 10.27, 9.62 Tasks: 676 total, 1 running, 675 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 64.5%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 32.9%id, 1.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 132138168k total, 131652664k used, 485504k free, 92340k buffers Swap: 5701624k total, 230252k used, 5471372k free, 13444344k cached ... top - 22:37:39 up 23:54, 3 users, load average: 7.83, 8.70, 9.27 Tasks: 678 total, 1 running, 677 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 75.8%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 22.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 77.2%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 77.3%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 77.8%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 76.9%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 76.3%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 : 12.6%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 : 8.6%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu8 : 77.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu9 : 77.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu10 : 77.6%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 20.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu11 : 75.7%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.4%id, 1.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu12 : 76.6%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu13 : 76.6%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu14 : 76.2%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 15.9%id, 5.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu15 : 76.6%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu16 : 73.6%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 23.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu17 : 74.5%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 23.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu18 : 73.9%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 23.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu19 : 72.9%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu20 : 72.8%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu21 : 72.7%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 25.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu22 : 72.5%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu23 : 73.0%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu24 : 74.7%us, 2.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 22.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu25 : 74.5%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 22.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu26 : 73.7%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu27 : 74.1%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 23.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu28 : 74.1%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 23.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu29 : 74.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu30 : 73.2%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu31 : 73.1%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 24.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 132138168k total, 131711704k used, 426464k free, 88336k buffers Swap: 5701624k total, 229572k used, 5472052k free, 13745596k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 13865 root 20 0 122g 112g 3.1g S 2334.3 89.6 20726:49 java 27139 jayen 20 0 15428 1728 952 S 2.6 0.0 0:04.21 top 27161 sysadmin 20 0 15428 1712 940 R 1.0 0.0 0:00.28 top 33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:06.24 ksoftirqd/7 131 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:09.52 events/0 1858 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 1:35.14 kondemand/0 A dump of the java stack confirms that none of the threads are anywhere near the few places where locks are used, nor are they anywhere near any disk or network i/o. I had trouble finding a clear explanation of what 'top' means by "idle" versus "wait", but I get the impression that "idle" means "no more threads that need to be run" but this doesn't make sense in our case. We're using a "Executors.newFixedThreadPool(30)". There are a large number of tasks pending and each task lasts for 10 seconds or so. I suspect that the explanation requires a good understanding of NUMA. Is the "idle" state what you see when a CPU is waiting for a non-local access? If not, then what is the explanation?

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MySQL Query - Alternation of WHERE IN

- by Sadiqur Rahman

I have a mySQL query which takes 3-4 minutes to be executed. It is a large database. This query uses WHERE IN to find the rows.. So, is there any alternate query/clause/statement for my this query? SELECT r.reg_id, r.first_name, r.last_name, r.email, r.country, e.headline, e.industry, pp.photo FROM basic_registration r LEFT JOIN exp_ind_reg e ON e.reg_id=r.reg_id LEFT JOIN profile_photo pp ON pp.reg_id=r.reg_id WHERE r.reg_id IN (23,228,497,593,761,1204,1491,1894,1895,2128,7,11,20,22,25,26,27,29,31, 32,33,34,37,41,45,47,50,52,53,54,55,62,63,69,75,79,80,82,85,87,88,89,93,96,99, 102,104,106,110,116,117,124,139,143,146,150,157,159,161,162,170,175,176,177, 181,183,197,210,213,215,217,220,226,227,233,240,250,252,255,262,263,268,274,280, 283,285,290,300,312,313,317,324,332,341,347,351,357,368,369,372,373,377, 381,383,398,408,414,416,418,419,422,432,441,446,450,451,453,463,466,469,473,486,511, 522,525,527,529,534,538,541,543,546,564,566,569,577,579,581,585,586,595,598,599,600, 606,611,613,614,621,640,649,654,656,660,667,668,674,682,686,689,693,699,705,720, 734,742,748,753,763,774,775,780,782,784,792,795,804,839,841,862,871,890,929, 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17940,17949,17953,17955,17960,17972,17980,17982,17992,18055,18067,18069,18071,18077, 18108,18127,18134,18136,18140,18142,18143,18158,18162,18178,18192,18196,18206,18217, 18221,18242,18245,18249,18263,18271,18273,18275,18277,18278,18286,18291,18295,18300, 18301,18308,18325,18333,18338,18360,18373,18374,18387,18397,18411,18412,18420,18429, 18434,18455,18478,18484,18534,18779,18790,18804,18821,18851,18964,18965,18977,18990, 18991,19000,19006,19276,19291,19374,19395,19416,19432,19627,19917,19927,19971,19974, 19989,20007,2254,2549,2652,3077,3615,4483,4484,4611,4700,5714,5772,6252,6536,7051, 7102,7107,7591,8167,8286,8935,9937,11089,12344,15830,16343,16644,17359, 17994,18774) AND r.activation=1 ORDER BY r.first_name ASC LIMIT 0, 10;

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App crashes when adding array data to table cells

- by bassmandan

I am trying to create a table view that loads a number of tweets into the table (one per cell etc). I am using NSXMLParser to get the information and have got as far as creating an array with the selection of tweets that I want. However, when I try to add them to the table cells, the app crashes on the line: cell.textLabel.text = cellValue; An NSLog before this shows in the console that the app is getting the correct data, so I am a bit stumped as to why this isn't working. This is the block of code that appears to be having the problem: - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell"; UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier]; if (cell == nil) { cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier]; } // Set up the cell... NSString *cellValue = [statuses objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; NSLog(@"%@", cellValue); cell.textLabel.text = cellValue; return cell;} If it makes a difference, I am using ARC and the latest version of XCode. I'm still quite new to all this, so if I need to give some extra information, let me know. Thanks in advance. Edit: Backtrace gives the following: * thread #1: tid = 0x2003, 0x918a19c6 libsystem_kernel.dylib`__pthread_kill + 10, stop reason = signal SIGABRT frame #0: 0x918a19c6 libsystem_kernel.dylib`__pthread_kill + 10 frame #1: 0x9968ff78 libsystem_c.dylib`pthread_kill + 106 frame #2: 0x99680bdd libsystem_c.dylib`abort + 167 frame #3: 0x03c93e78 libc++abi.dylib`_Unwind_DeleteException frame #4: 0x03c9189e libc++abi.dylib`_ZL17default_terminatev + 34 frame #5: 0x0154df4b libobjc.A.dylib`_objc_terminate + 94 frame #6: 0x03c918de libc++abi.dylib`_ZL19safe_handler_callerPFvvE + 13 frame #7: 0x03c91946 libc++abi.dylib`std::terminate() + 23 frame #8: 0x03c92ab2 libc++abi.dylib`__cxa_throw + 110 frame #9: 0x0154de15 libobjc.A.dylib`objc_exception_throw + 311 frame #10: 0x013bdced CoreFoundation`-[NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 253 frame #11: 0x01322f00 CoreFoundation`___forwarding___ + 432 frame #12: 0x01322ce2 CoreFoundation`_CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50 frame #13: 0x0015168f UIKit`-[UILabel setText:] + 56 frame #14: 0x00003088 Twitter`-[TwitterViewController tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:] + 376 at TwitterViewController.m:131 frame #15: 0x000ace0f UIKit`-[UITableView(UITableViewInternal) _createPreparedCellForGlobalRow:withIndexPath:] + 494 frame #16: 0x000ad589 UIKit`-[UITableView(UITableViewInternal) _createPreparedCellForGlobalRow:] + 69 frame #17: 0x00098dfd UIKit`-[UITableView(_UITableViewPrivate) _updateVisibleCellsNow:] + 1350 frame #18: 0x000a7851 UIKit`-[UITableView layoutSubviews] + 242 frame #19: 0x00052301 UIKit`-[UIView(CALayerDelegate) layoutSublayersOfLayer:] + 145 frame #20: 0x013bde72 CoreFoundation`-[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 66 frame #21: 0x01d6692d QuartzCore`-[CALayer layoutSublayers] + 266 frame #22: 0x01d70827 QuartzCore`CA::Layer::layout_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 231 frame #23: 0x01cf6fa7 QuartzCore`CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 377 frame #24: 0x01cf8ea6 QuartzCore`CA::Transaction::commit() + 374 frame #25: 0x01d8430c QuartzCore`+[CATransaction flush] + 52 frame #26: 0x000124c6 UIKit`-[UIApplication _reportAppLaunchFinished] + 39 frame #27: 0x00012bd6 UIKit`-[UIApplication _runWithURL:payload:launchOrientation:statusBarStyle:statusBarHidden:] + 1324 frame #28: 0x00021743 UIKit`-[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:] + 1027 frame #29: 0x000221f8 UIKit`-[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 68 frame #30: 0x00015aa9 UIKit`_UIApplicationHandleEvent + 8196 frame #31: 0x012a6fa9 GraphicsServices`PurpleEventCallback + 1274 frame #32: 0x013901c5 CoreFoundation`__CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 53 frame #33: 0x012f5022 CoreFoundation`__CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 146 frame #34: 0x012f390a CoreFoundation`__CFRunLoopRun + 2218 frame #35: 0x012f2db4 CoreFoundation`CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 212 frame #36: 0x012f2ccb CoreFoundation`CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123 frame #37: 0x000122a7 UIKit`-[UIApplication _run] + 576 frame #38: 0x00013a9b UIKit`UIApplicationMain + 1175 frame #39: 0x0000239d Twitter`main + 141 at main.m:16 frame #40: 0x00002305 Twitter`start + 53 Debugging console shows this: 2012-04-08 10:10:05.084 Twitter[25309:f803] ( { text = "Have you shared the Shakedown yet? http://t.co/WHrIC9w7"; }, { text = "For all you closet rocknrollas pencil in Sat 12th May The Rebirth of Rock n Roll Party. Haywire Saint @ The Good... http://t.co/OXHKlLIV"; }, { text = "4 weeks today: Vocal tracks will be getting recorded at The Premises Studios"; }, { text = "Rehearsal tonight in preparation to some big recording next month!"; }, { text = "haywire saint 'great taste.' Tune. \n\nhttp://t.co/GKmu5Lna http://t.co/0fii55Hw"; }, { text = "Meeting up with an old roadie for The Cure today. oh the stories...... http://t.co/UeUYccme"; }, { text = "Satisfying day of programming today.. Haywire Saint app coming along nicely with the custom music player ready to rock 'n' roll!"; }, { text = "Happy Friday Everyone!"; }, { text = "We had a great time at The Premises Studios yesterday. We'll be back there before long :D x"; }, { text = "I posted a new photo to Facebook http://t.co/73qAnCvk"; } ) 2012-04-08 10:10:05.093 Twitter[25309:f803] { text = "Have you shared the Shakedown yet? http://t.co/WHrIC9w7"; } 2012-04-08 10:10:05.094 Twitter[25309:f803] -[__NSCFDictionary isEqualToString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6877a50 2012-04-08 10:10:05.096 Twitter[25309:f803] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFDictionary isEqualToString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6877a50' *** First throw call stack: (0x13bc052 0x154dd0a 0x13bdced 0x1322f00 0x1322ce2 0x15168f 0x3088 0xace0f 0xad589 0x98dfd 0xa7851 0x52301 0x13bde72 0x1d6692d 0x1d70827 0x1cf6fa7 0x1cf8ea6 0x1d8430c 0x124c6 0x12bd6 0x21743 0x221f8 0x15aa9 0x12a6fa9 0x13901c5 0x12f5022 0x12f390a 0x12f2db4 0x12f2ccb 0x122a7 0x13a9b 0x239d 0x2305) terminate called throwing an exception2012-04-08 10:10:05.924 Twitter[25309:f803] -[__NSCFConstantString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x5b30

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compile time if && return string reference optimization

- by Truncheon

Hi. I'm writing a series classes that inherit from a base class using virtual. They are INT, FLOAT and STRING objects that I want to use in a scripting language. I'm trying to implement weak typing, but I don't want STRING objects to return copies of themselves when used in the following way (instead I would prefer to have a reference returned which can be used in copying): a = "hello "; b = "world"; c = a + b; I have written the following code as a mock example: #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> std::string dummy("<int object cannot return string reference>"); struct BaseImpl { virtual bool is_string() = 0; virtual int get_int() = 0; virtual std::string get_string_copy() = 0; virtual std::string const& get_string_ref() = 0; }; struct INT : BaseImpl { int value; INT(int i = 0) : value(i) { std::cout << "constructor called\n"; } INT(BaseImpl& that) : value(that.get_int()) { std::cout << "copy constructor called\n"; } bool is_string() { return false; } int get_int() { return value; } std::string get_string_copy() { char buf[33]; sprintf(buf, "%i", value); return buf; } std::string const& get_string_ref() { return dummy; } }; struct STRING : BaseImpl { std::string value; STRING(std::string s = "") : value(s) { std::cout << "constructor called\n"; } STRING(BaseImpl& that) { if (that.is_string()) value = that.get_string_ref(); else value = that.get_string_copy(); std::cout << "copy constructor called\n"; } bool is_string() { return true; } int get_int() { return atoi(value.c_str()); } std::string get_string_copy() { return value; } std::string const& get_string_ref() { return value; } }; struct Base { BaseImpl* impl; Base(BaseImpl* p = 0) : impl(p) {} ~Base() { delete impl; } }; int main() { Base b1(new INT(1)); Base b2(new STRING("Hello world")); Base b3(new INT(*b1.impl)); Base b4(new STRING(*b2.impl)); std::cout << "\n"; std::cout << b1.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << b2.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << b3.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << b4.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << "\n"; std::cout << b1.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << b2.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << b3.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << b4.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << "\n"; std::cout << b1.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; std::cout << b2.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; std::cout << b3.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; std::cout << b4.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; return 0; } It was necessary to add an if check in the STRING class to determine whether its safe to request a reference instead of a copy: Script code: a = "test"; b = a; c = 1; d = "" + c; /* not safe to request reference by standard */ C++ code: STRING(BaseImpl& that) { if (that.is_string()) value = that.get_string_ref(); else value = that.get_string_copy(); std::cout << "copy constructor called\n"; } If was hoping there's a way of moving that if check into compile time, rather than run time.

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Programmatically Detecting Valid Style Properties In Flex

- by Joshua

If I want to know if an object has a particular property I can code this: if (SomeObject.hasOwnProperty('xyz')) { // some code } But some styles masquerade as properties at design time such as Button.color... How can I know what style properties are valid at runtime? ie: What is the equivalent of hasOwnProperty for getStyle/setStyle? In other words how can I know if an object HAS A particular style variable... When I write: MyButton.setStyle('qsfgaeWT','-33'); It won't accomplish anything, but it also doesn't error. How can I know programmatically that 'qsfgaeWT' is NOT a valid style of 'Button'??

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Issue in configuring JPA with Spring 3 in Jboss 4.2.2 server.

- by KVMKReddy

Hi, I am facing issues in configuring JPA with Spring 3 in JBoss 4.2.2 server. Please find the below file of persistence.xml. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="TestPU"> <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider> <jta-data-source>java:/TestDS</jta-data-source> <properties> <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect"/> <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence> My spring-beans.xml is as below <bean id="MyAdvise" class=".......Aspect"> <property name="persister"> <bean id="dbPersister" class="..............DataBasePersister"> </bean> </property> </bean> <bean id="localContainerEntityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"> <property name="jpaVendorAdapter"> <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"> <property name="showSql" value="true"/> <property name="database" value="ORACLE"/> </bean> </property> <property name="jpaProperties"> <props> <prop key="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup</prop> </props> </property> </bean> <bean id="myTxManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"> <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="localContainerEntityManagerFactory"/> </bean> <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="myTxManager" /> My persister bean is as follows. public class DataBasePersister implements IPersister { private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(DataBasePersister.class); // The Entity Manager @PersistenceContext protected EntityManager entityManager; @Transactional(readOnly = false) public void persist(Object data) { log.info("IN persist() call. Is the data can castable to MethodStats -->:"+(data instanceof MethodStats)); log.info("Entity Manager instance -->:"+(entityManager)); ---------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- } } I am getting the following exception when the spring container creating my persister bean org.springframework.transaction.CannotCreateTransactionException: Could not open JPA EntityManager for transaction; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: JTA EntityManager cannot access a transactions at org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager.doBegin(JpaTransactionManager.java:382) at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.getTransaction(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:371) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:309) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:166) at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:89) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202) at $Proxy147.getTransaction(Unknown Source) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.createTransactionIfNecessary(TransactionAspectSupport.java:335) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:105) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:89) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202) at $Proxy141.persist(Unknown Source) at com.adp.sbs.aop.aspectj.SBSMethodStatsCollectorAspect.doAround(SBSMethodStatsCollectorAspect.java:63) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.invokeAdviceMethodWithGivenArgs(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:621) at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AbstractAspectJAdvice.invokeAdviceMethod(AbstractAspectJAdvice.java:610) at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJAroundAdvice.invoke(AspectJAroundAdvice.java:65) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:161) at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:89) at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172) at org.springframework.aop.framework.Cglib2AopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(Cglib2AopProxy.java:621) at com.adp.sbs.aop.test.TestMethodLevelAnnotationStats$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$efbc78a8.MethodWithOneParamsAndReturnTypeAsString(<generated>) at com.adp.sbs.aop.test.SimpleTestServlet.testMethodAnnotations(SimpleTestServlet.java:46) at com.adp.sbs.aop.test.SimpleTestServlet.doPost(SimpleTestServlet.java:40) at com.adp.sbs.aop.test.SimpleTestServlet.doGet(SimpleTestServlet.java:33) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:179) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:446) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JTA EntityManager cannot access a transactions at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.getTransaction(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:316) at org.springframework.orm.jpa.DefaultJpaDialect.beginTransaction(DefaultJpaDialect.java:70) at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect.beginTransaction(HibernateJpaDialect.java:57) at org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager.doBegin(JpaTransactionManager.java:332) Can you somebody please suggest me how to resolve this.

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SWIG & C/C++ Python API connected - SEGFAULT

- by user289637

Hello, my task is to create dual program. At the beginning I start C program that calls throught C/C++ API of Python some Python method. The called method after that call a function that is created with SWIG. I show you my sample also with backtrace from gdb after I am given Segmentation fault. main.c: #include <Python.h> #include <stdio.h> #include "utils.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { printf("Calling from C !\n"); increment(); int i; for(i = 0; i < 11; ++i) { Py_Initialize(); PyObject *pname = PyString_FromString("py_function"); PyObject *module = PyImport_Import(pname); PyObject *dict = PyModule_GetDict(module); PyObject *func = PyDict_GetItemString(dict, "ink"); PyObject_CallObject(func, NULL); Py_DECREF(module); Py_DECREF(pname); printf("\tbefore finalize\n"); Py_Finalize(); printf("\tafter finalize\n"); } return 0; } utils.c #include <stdio.h> #include "utils.h" void increment(void) { printf("Incremention counter to: %u\n", ++counter); } py_function.py #!/usr/bin/python2.6 '''py_function.py - Python source designed to demonstrate the use of python embedding''' import utils def ink(): print 'I am gonna increment !' utils.increment() and last think is my Makefile & SWIG configure file Makefile: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-c -g -Wall -std=c99 all: main main: main.o utils.o utils_wrap.o $(CC) main.o utils.o -lpython2.6 -o sample swig -Wall -python -o utils_wrap.c utils.i $(CC) utils.o utils_wrap.o -shared -o _utils.so main.o: main.c $(CC) $(CFLAGS) main.c -I/usr/include/python2.6 -o main.o utils.o: utils.c utils.h $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -fPIC utils.c -o $@ utils_wrap.o: utils_wrap.c $(CC) -c -fPIC utils_wrap.c -I/usr/include/python2.6 -o $@ clean: rm -rf *.o The program is called by ./main and there is output: (gdb) run Starting program: /home/marxin/Programming/python2/sample [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Calling from C ! Incremention counter to: 1 I am gonna increment ! Incremention counter to: 2 before finalize after finalize I am gonna increment ! Incremention counter to: 3 before finalize after finalize I am gonna increment ! Incremention counter to: 4 before finalize after finalize Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7ed3e4e in PyObject_Malloc () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 Backtrace: (gdb) backtrace #0 0xb7ed3e4e in PyObject_Malloc () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #1 0xb7ca2b2c in ?? () #2 0xb7f8dd40 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #3 0xb7eb014c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #4 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #5 0xb7f99820 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #6 0x00000001 in ?? () #7 0xb7f8dd40 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #8 0xb7f4f014 in _PyObject_GC_Malloc () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #9 0xb7f99820 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #10 0xb7f4f104 in _PyObject_GC_NewVar () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #11 0xb7ee8760 in _PyType_Lookup () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #12 0xb7f99820 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #13 0x00000001 in ?? () #14 0xb7f8dd40 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #15 0xb7ef13ed in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #16 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #17 0x00000001 in ?? () #18 0xbfff0c34 in ?? () #19 0xb7e993c3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #20 0x00000001 in ?? () #21 0xbfff0c70 in ?? () #22 0xb7f99da0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #23 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #24 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #25 0x080a6b0c in ?? () #26 0x080a6b0c in ?? () #27 0xb7e99420 in PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #28 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #29 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #30 0x800e55eb in ?? () #31 0x080a6b0c in ?? () #32 0xb7e9958c in PyObject_IsSubclass () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #33 0xb7f8dd40 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #34 0x080a9020 in ?? () #35 0xb7fb78f0 in PyFPE_counter () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #36 0xb7f86ff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #37 0x00000000 in ?? () Thanks for your help and advices, marxin

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Search function fails because it refers to the wrong controller action?

- by Christoffer

My Sunspot search function (sunspot_rails gem) works just fine in my index view, but when I duplicate it to my show view my search breaks... views/supplierproducts/show.html.erb <%= form_tag supplierproducts_path, :method => :get, :id => "supplierproducts_search" do %> <p> <%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search], placeholder: "Search by SKU, product name & EAN number..." %> </p> <div id="supplierproducts"><%= render 'supplierproducts' %></div> <% end %> assets/javascripts/application.js $(function () { $('#supplierproducts th a').live('click', function () { $.getScript(this.href); return false; } ); $('#supplierproducts_search input').keyup(function () { $.get($("#supplierproducts_search").attr("action"), $("#supplierproducts_search").serialize(), null, 'script'); return false; }); }); views/supplierproducts/show.js.erb $('#supplierproducts').html('<%= escape_javascript(render("supplierproducts")) %>'); views/supplierproducts/_supplierproducts.hmtl.erb <%= hidden_field_tag :direction, params[:direction] %> <%= hidden_field_tag :sort, params[:sort] %> <table class="table table-bordered"> <thead> <tr> <th><%= sortable "sku", "SKU" %></th> <th><%= sortable "name", "Product name" %></th> <th><%= sortable "stock", "Stock" %></th> <th><%= sortable "price", "Price" %></th> <th><%= sortable "ean", "EAN number" %></th> </tr> </thead> <% for supplierproduct in @supplier.supplierproducts %> <tbody> <tr> <td><%= supplierproduct.sku %></td> <td><%= supplierproduct.name %></td> <td><%= supplierproduct.stock %></td> <td><%= supplierproduct.price %></td> <td><%= supplierproduct.ean %></td> </tr> </tbody> <% end %> </table> controllers/supplierproducts_controller.rb class SupplierproductsController < ApplicationController helper_method :sort_column, :sort_direction def show @supplier = Supplier.find(params[:id]) @search = @supplier.supplierproducts.search do fulltext params[:search] end @supplierproducts = @search.results end end private def sort_column Supplierproduct.column_names.include?(params[:sort]) ? params[:sort] : "name" end def sort_direction %w[asc desc].include?(params[:direction]) ? params[:direction] : "asc" end models/supplierproduct.rb class Supplierproduct < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :ean, :name, :price, :sku, :stock, :supplier_id belongs_to :supplier validates :supplier_id, presence: true searchable do text :ean, :name, :sku end end Visiting show.html.erb works just fine. Log shows: Started GET "/supplierproducts/2" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-06-24 13:44:52 +0200 Processing by SupplierproductsController#show as HTML Parameters: {"id"=>"2"} Supplier Load (0.1ms) SELECT "suppliers".* FROM "suppliers" WHERE "suppliers"."id" = ? LIMIT 1 [["id", "2"]] SOLR Request (252.9ms) [ path=#<RSolr::Client:0x007fa5880b8e68> parameters={data: fq=type%3ASupplierproduct&start=0&rows=30&q=%2A%3A%2A, method: post, params: {:wt=>:ruby}, query: wt=ruby, headers: {"Content-Type"=>"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"}, path: select, uri: http://localhost:8982/solr/select?wt=ruby, open_timeout: , read_timeout: } ] Supplierproduct Load (0.2ms) SELECT "supplierproducts".* FROM "supplierproducts" WHERE "supplierproducts"."id" IN (1) Supplierproduct Load (0.1ms) SELECT "supplierproducts".* FROM "supplierproducts" WHERE "supplierproducts"."supplier_id" = 2 Rendered supplierproducts/_supplierproducts.html.erb (2.2ms) Rendered supplierproducts/show.html.erb within layouts/application (3.3ms) Rendered layouts/_shim.html.erb (0.0ms) User Load (0.1ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."remember_token" = 'zMrtTbDun2MjMHRApSthCQ' LIMIT 1 Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (2.1ms) Rendered layouts/_footer.html.erb (0.2ms) Completed 200 OK in 278ms (Views: 20.6ms | ActiveRecord: 0.6ms | Solr: 252.9ms) But it breaks when I type in a search. Log shows: Started GET "/supplierproducts?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=a&direction=&sort=&_=1340538830635" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-06-24 13:53:50 +0200 Processing by SupplierproductsController#index as JS Parameters: {"utf8"=>"?", "search"=>"a", "direction"=>"", "sort"=>"", "_"=>"1340538830635"} Rendered supplierproducts/_supplierproducts.html.erb (2.4ms) Rendered supplierproducts/index.js.erb (2.9ms) Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 6ms ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `supplierproducts' for nil:NilClass): 10: <th><%= sortable "ean", "EAN number" %></th> 11: </tr> 12: </thead> 13: <% for supplierproduct in @supplier.supplierproducts %> 14: <tbody> 15: <tr> 16: <td><%= supplierproduct.sku %></td> app/views/supplierproducts/_supplierproducts.html.erb:13:in `_app_views_supplierproducts__supplierproducts_html_erb___2251600857885474606_70174444831200' app/views/supplierproducts/index.js.erb:1:in `_app_views_supplierproducts_index_js_erb___1613906916161905600_70174464073480' Rendered /Users/Computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_trace.erb (33.3ms) Rendered /Users/Computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_request_and_response.erb (0.9ms) Rendered /Users/Computer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/template_error.erb within rescues/layout (39.7ms)

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Problem with videos on heroku

- by mnml

Hi, I have recently moved my RoR app on the Heroku platform, and almost everything works fine apart from the videos. It works fine when my app runs in local but not on heroku. This is the error log I'm getting, if anyone knows where it can be coming from: Processing VideosController#new (for IP at 2010-03-20 04:32:09) [GET] Session ID: 6abecf60c3369d7c7029e366bb801e08 Parameters: {"artist_id"=>"10", "action"=>"new", "controller"=>"admin/videos"} Rendering within layouts/admin Rendering admin/videos/new ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `video_file_relative_path' for #<Video:0x2adc9839fe28>) on line #21 of app/views/admin/videos/ _form.rhtml: 18: 19: <p><label for="videos_image_file">Fichier Vidéo SWF</label><br/> 20: <% if @video.video_file %> 21: <%= link_to image_tag(url_for_file_column("video", "video_file", :name => "thumbnail"))+"<br>", {:controller => url_for_file_column("video", "video_file")}, :popup => ['new_window', 'height=200,width=200'] %> 22: <% end %> 23: <%= file_column_field 'video', 'video_file' %> 24:     #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb: 1792:in `method_missing' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/file_column/lib/file_column_helper.rb: 75:in `send' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/file_column/lib/file_column_helper.rb: 75:in `url_for_file_column' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/admin/videos/_form.rhtml:21:in `_run_rhtml_admin_videos__form' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 314:in `send' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 314:in `compile_and_render_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 290:in `render_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 249:in `render_file' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 264:in `render' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb: 59:in `render_partial' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ benchmarking.rb:33:in `benchmark' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/partials.rb: 58:in `render_partial' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 276:in `render' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/admin/videos/new.rhtml:4:in `_run_rhtml_admin_videos_new' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 314:in `send' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 314:in `compile_and_render_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 290:in `render_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb: 249:in `render_file' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:699:in `render_file' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:621:in `render_with_no_layout' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ layout.rb:243:in `render_without_benchmark' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ benchmarking.rb:53:in `render' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ benchmarking.rb:53:in `render' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:911:in `perform_action_without_filters' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ filters.rb:368:in `perform_action_without_benchmark' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ rescue.rb:82:in `perform_action' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:381:in `send' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:381:in `process_without_filters' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ filters.rb:377:in `process_without_session_management_support' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/ session_management.rb:117:in `process' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/rack/adapter/ rails.rb:60:in `serve_rails' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/rack/adapter/ rails.rb:80:in `call' /home/heroku_rack/lib/static_assets.rb:9:in `call' /home/heroku_rack/lib/last_access.rb:25:in `call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb: 46:in `call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb: 40:in `each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb: 40:in `call' /home/heroku_rack/lib/date_header.rb:14:in `call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb: 60:in `call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/ connection.rb:80:in `pre_process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/ connection.rb:78:in `catch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/ connection.rb:78:in `pre_process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/ connection.rb:57:in `process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/ connection.rb:42:in `receive_data' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.6/lib/ eventmachine.rb:240:in `run_machine' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.6/lib/ eventmachine.rb:240:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/backends/ base.rb:57:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/server.rb: 150:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/controllers/ controller.rb:80:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/runner.rb: 173:in `send' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/runner.rb: 173:in `run_command' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/lib/thin/runner.rb: 139:in `run!' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.0.1/bin/thin:6 /usr/local/bin/thin:20:in `load' /usr/local/bin/thin:20 Thanks

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Django + dbxml + Apache = problems. Any solutions?

- by Jason

I'm trying to set up a Django application using WSGI. That works fine. However, I am having some issues with part of my Django app that uses BDB XML. My Apache config is as follows: Listen 8000 WSGISocketPrefix /tmp/wsgi <VirtualHost *:8000> ServerName <server name> DocumentRoot <path to doc root> LogLevel info WSGIScriptAlias / <path to wsgi> WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL} WSGIDaemonProcess debug threads=1 WSGIProcessGroup debug </VirtualHost> However, I'm still getting the following error: DB_ENV->repmgr_stat interface requires an environment configured for the replication subsystem [error] child died with signal 11 My environment is opened as: environment = DBEnv() environment.open( <absolute db env path>, DB_CREATE|DB_INIT_LOCK|DB_INIT_LOG|DB_INIT_MPOOL, 0 ) I am using: python 2.6.2 apache 2.2 ubuntu 9.04 dbxml 2.5.13 compiled from source (so libdb-4.8, bsddb3, all that jazz) I see Apache seems to link to libdb-4.6. Is this a problem? ldd /usr/sbin/apache2 | grep libdb libdb-4.6.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so (0xb7c01000) Updated Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb5a48b90 (LWP 12700)] 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 4 (Thread 0xb6a67b90 (LWP 12698)): #0 0xb7f11422 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7de07b1 in select () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7ea5bcf in apr_sleep () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #3 0xb6d7afee in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #4 0xb7ea38ec in ?? () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #5 0xb7e6d4ff in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #6 0xb7de849e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 3 (Thread 0xb6249b90 (LWP 12699)): #0 0xb7f11422 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7de07b1 in select () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7ea5bcf in apr_sleep () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #3 0xb6d7ab39 in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #4 0xb7ea38ec in ?? () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #5 0xb7e6d4ff in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #6 0xb7de849e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 2 (Thread 0xb5a48b90 (LWP 12700)): #0 0x00000000 in ?? () #1 0xb4f03b5e in DbXml::XmlManager::XmlManager () from /home/jason/dbxml-2.5.13/install/lib/libdbxml-2.5.so #2 0xb501b29b in _wrap_new_XmlManager (self=0x0, args=0xac66fcc) at dbxml_python_wrap.cpp:5183 #3 0xb6b77aed in PyCFunction_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #4 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #5 0xb6bd70b5 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #6 0xb6bdb910 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #7 0xb6b6187a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #8 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #9 0xb6b427a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #10 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #11 0xb6b9ae03 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #12 0xb6b90f55 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #13 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #14 0xb6bd7618 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #15 0xb6bdb910 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #16 0xb6b6187a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #17 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #18 0xb6b427a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #19 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #20 0xb6bd3a34 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #21 0xb6b44a7d in PyInstance_New () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #22 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #23 0xb6bd7618 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #24 0xb6bdb910 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #25 0xb6b61969 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #26 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #27 0xb6bd70b5 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #28 0xb6bdb910 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #29 0xb6b61969 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #30 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #31 0xb6b427a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #32 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #33 0xb6b9b483 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #34 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #35 0xb6bd70b5 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #36 0xb6bdab4f in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #37 0xb6bdb910 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #38 0xb6b6187a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #39 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #40 0xb6b427a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #41 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #42 0xb6b9b483 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #43 0xb6b3198c in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #44 0xb6bd3a34 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #45 0xb6d7172d in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #46 0xb6d7539f in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #47 0xb6d7e1d8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #48 0xb6d7a42c in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #49 0xb6d7a8bd in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #50 0xb6d7a9c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #51 0xb7ea38ec in ?? () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #52 0xb7e6d4ff in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #53 0xb7de849e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7460b00 (LWP 12697)): #0 0xb7f11422 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7e75300 in sigwait () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb7ea3f3b in apr_signal_thread () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #3 0xb6d7b48d in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #4 0xb6d7bc98 in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #5 0xb6d79632 in ?? () from /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so #6 0xb7e9a2c9 in apr_proc_other_child_alert () from /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 #7 0x08092202 in ap_mpm_run () #8 0x080673c8 in main () #0 0x00000000 in ?? ()

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Only show items owned by the currently logged in user in category list view

- by jalbasri

I'd like to be able to provide a "Category List" view that only shows Articles that the currently logged in user owns. Is there somewhere I can edit the query used to populate the Category List view or an extension that provides this functionality. Thank you for any help you can provide. -J. Thank you for your answer. I've written the plugin. Instead of passing in an array of Articles the onContentBeforeDisplay function is called for every article and an ArrayObject of the single article gets passed in. I've been able to identify the articles I want not to be displayed but still cannot get them not to display. The $params variable has values such as "list_show_xxx" but I can't seem to change or access them. here is a var_dump($params): object(Joomla\Registry\Registry)#190 (1) { ["data":protected]=> object(stdClass)#250 (83) { ["article_layout"]=> string(9) "_:default" ["show_title"]=> string(1) "1" ["link_titles"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_intro"]=> string(1) "1" ["info_block_position"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_category"]=> string(1) "1" ["link_category"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_parent_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["link_parent_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["link_author"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_create_date"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_modify_date"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_publish_date"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_item_navigation"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_vote"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_readmore"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_readmore_title"]=> string(1) "1" ["readmore_limit"]=> string(3) "100" ["show_tags"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_icons"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_print_icon"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_email_icon"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_hits"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_noauth"]=> string(1) "0" ["urls_position"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_publishing_options"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_article_options"]=> string(1) "0" ["save_history"]=> string(1) "1" ["history_limit"]=> int(10) ["show_urls_images_frontend"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_urls_images_backend"]=> string(1) "1" ["targeta"]=> int(0) ["targetb"]=> int(0) ["targetc"]=> int(0) ["float_intro"]=> string(4) "left" ["float_fulltext"]=> string(4) "left" ["category_layout"]=> string(9) "_:default" ["show_category_heading_title_text"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_category_title"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_description"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_description_image"]=> string(1) "0" ["maxLevel"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_empty_categories"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_no_articles"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_subcat_desc"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_cat_num_articles"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_base_description"]=> string(1) "1" ["maxLevelcat"]=> string(2) "-1" ["show_empty_categories_cat"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_subcat_desc_cat"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_cat_num_articles_cat"]=> string(1) "1" ["num_leading_articles"]=> string(1) "1" ["num_intro_articles"]=> string(1) "4" ["num_columns"]=> string(1) "1" ["num_links"]=> string(1) "4" ["multi_column_order"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_subcategory_content"]=> string(1) "0" ["show_pagination_limit"]=> string(1) "1" ["filter_field"]=> string(5) "title" ["show_headings"]=> string(1) "1" ["list_show_date"]=> string(1) "0" ["date_format"]=> string(0) "" ["list_show_hits"]=> string(1) "1" ["list_show_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["orderby_pri"]=> string(5) "order" ["orderby_sec"]=> string(5) "rdate" ["order_date"]=> string(9) "published" ["show_pagination"]=> string(1) "2" ["show_pagination_results"]=> string(1) "1" ["show_feed_link"]=> string(1) "1" ["feed_summary"]=> string(1) "0" ["feed_show_readmore"]=> string(1) "0" ["display_num"]=> string(2) "10" ["menu_text"]=> int(1) ["show_page_heading"]=> int(0) ["secure"]=> int(0) ["page_title"]=> string(16) "Non-K2 News List" ["page_description"]=> string(33) "Bahrain Business Incubator Centre" ["page_rights"]=> NULL ["robots"]=> NULL ["access-edit"]=> bool(true) ["access-view"]=> bool(true) } } I've tried $params-data-list_show_author = "0" but then the page doesn't load, problem is accessing and changing the variables in $param. So the last step is to figure out how not to show the article. Any ideas?

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Android Out of memory regarding png image

- by turtleboy

I have a jpg image in my app that shows correctly. In my listview i'd like to make the image more transparent so it is easier to see the text. I changed the image to a png format and altered it's opacity in GIMP. Now that the new image is in the app drawable folder. Im getting the following error. why? 09-28 09:24:07.560: I/global(20140): call socket shutdown, tmpsocket=Socket[address=/178.250.50.40,port=80,localPort=35172] 09-28 09:24:07.570: I/global(20140): call socket shutdown, tmpsocket=Socket[address=/212.169.27.217,port=84,localPort=55656] 09-28 09:24:07.690: D/dalvikvm(20140): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 113K, 4% free 38592K/39907K, paused 32ms 09-28 09:24:07.690: I/dalvikvm-heap(20140): Forcing collection of SoftReferences for 28072816-byte allocation 09-28 09:24:07.740: D/dalvikvm(20140): GC_BEFORE_OOM freed 9K, 4% free 38582K/39907K, paused 43ms 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/dalvikvm-heap(20140): Out of memory on a 28072816-byte allocation. 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): "main" prio=5 tid=1 RUNNABLE 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=0x40a57490 self=0x1b6e9a8 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): | sysTid=20140 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1074361640 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): | schedstat=( 2289118000 760844000 2121 ) utm=195 stm=33 core=1 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeAsset(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:486) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:773) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:2042) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:2812) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:410) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.widget.LinearLayout.<init>(LinearLayout.java:174) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.widget.LinearLayout.<init>(LinearLayout.java:170) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:586) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:653) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:678) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:466) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:278) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1897) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.carefreegroup.ShowMoreDetails.onCreate(ShowMoreDetails.java:26) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4543) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1071) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2181) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2260) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:139) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1277) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:156) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5045) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551) 09-28 09:24:07.740: I/dalvikvm(20140): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/dalvikvm(20140): Out of memory: Heap Size=46115KB, Allocated=38582KB, Limit=65536KB 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/dalvikvm(20140): Extra info: Footprint=39907KB, Allowed Footprint=46115KB, Trimmed=892KB 09-28 09:24:07.740: E/Bitmap_JNI(20140): Create Bitmap Failed. 09-28 09:24:07.740: A/libc(20140): Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0x00000004 (code=1) 09-28 09:24:09.750: I/dalvikvm(20367): Turning on JNI app bug workarounds for target SDK version 10... 09-28 09:24:09.940: D/dalvikvm(20367): GC_CONCURRENT freed 864K, 21% free 3797K/4771K, paused 2ms+2ms thanks. [update] @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.showmoredetailslayout); actualCallTime = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.actualcalltime); doubleUp = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.doubleupcallid); needName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.needname); needNameLabel = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.neednamelabel); getRotaDetails = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttongetrotadetails); intent = this.getIntent(); String actualTimeIn = intent.getStringExtra("actTimeIn"); String actualTimeOut = intent.getStringExtra("actTimeOut"); String doubleUpValue = intent.getStringExtra("doubleUpValue"); String needNameWithCommas = intent.getStringExtra("needNameWithCommas"); callID = intent.getStringExtra("callID"); String[] needs = needNameWithCommas.split(","); actualCallTime.setText("This call was completed at " + actualTimeIn + " -" + actualTimeOut); if( ! doubleUpValue.equalsIgnoreCase("") || doubleUpValue.equalsIgnoreCase("]")){ doubleUp.setText("This call was not a double up "); }else{ doubleUp.setText("This call was a double up " + doubleUpValue); } needNameLabel.setText("Purpose of Call: "); for (int i = 0; i < needs.length; i++){ needName.append( needs[i] + "\n"); } getRotaDetails.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { Intent intent = new Intent(ShowMoreDetails.this, GetRotaDetails.class); intent.putExtra("callIDExtra", callID); startActivity(intent); } }); } }

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How to check with PHP does a SQL database already have

- by Dan Horvat

I've tried to find the answer to this question but none of the answers fit. I have two databases, one has 15.000.000 entries and I want to extract the necessary data and store it in a much smaller database with around 33.000 entries. Both databases are open at the same time. Or at least they should be. While having the big database open and extracting the entries from it, is it possible to check whether the value already exists in the smaller database? I just need some generic way which checks that.

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how to avoid temporaries when copying weakly typed object

- by Truncheon

Hi. I'm writing a series classes that inherit from a base class using virtual. They are INT, FLOAT and STRING objects that I want to use in a scripting language. I'm trying to implement weak typing, but I don't want STRING objects to return copies of themselves when used in the following way (instead I would prefer to have a reference returned which can be used in copying): a = "hello "; b = "world"; c = a + b; I have written the following code as a mock example: #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> std::string dummy("<int object cannot return string reference>"); struct BaseImpl { virtual bool is_string() = 0; virtual int get_int() = 0; virtual std::string get_string_copy() = 0; virtual std::string const& get_string_ref() = 0; }; struct INT : BaseImpl { int value; INT(int i = 0) : value(i) { std::cout << "constructor called\n"; } INT(BaseImpl& that) : value(that.get_int()) { std::cout << "copy constructor called\n"; } bool is_string() { return false; } int get_int() { return value; } std::string get_string_copy() { char buf[33]; sprintf(buf, "%i", value); return buf; } std::string const& get_string_ref() { return dummy; } }; struct STRING : BaseImpl { std::string value; STRING(std::string s = "") : value(s) { std::cout << "constructor called\n"; } STRING(BaseImpl& that) { if (that.is_string()) value = that.get_string_ref(); else value = that.get_string_copy(); std::cout << "copy constructor called\n"; } bool is_string() { return true; } int get_int() { return atoi(value.c_str()); } std::string get_string_copy() { return value; } std::string const& get_string_ref() { return value; } }; struct Base { BaseImpl* impl; Base(BaseImpl* p = 0) : impl(p) {} ~Base() { delete impl; } }; int main() { Base b1(new INT(1)); Base b2(new STRING("Hello world")); Base b3(new INT(*b1.impl)); Base b4(new STRING(*b2.impl)); std::cout << "\n"; std::cout << b1.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << b2.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << b3.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << b4.impl->get_int() << "\n"; std::cout << "\n"; std::cout << b1.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << b2.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << b3.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << b4.impl->get_string_ref() << "\n"; std::cout << "\n"; std::cout << b1.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; std::cout << b2.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; std::cout << b3.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; std::cout << b4.impl->get_string_copy() << "\n"; return 0; } It was necessary to add an if check in the STRING class to determine whether its safe to request a reference instead of a copy: Script code: a = "test"; b = a; c = 1; d = "" + c; /* not safe to request reference by standard */ C++ code: STRING(BaseImpl& that) { if (that.is_string()) value = that.get_string_ref(); else value = that.get_string_copy(); std::cout << "copy constructor called\n"; } If was hoping there's a way of moving that if check into compile time, rather than run time.

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Building my first Javascript Application (jQuery), struggling on something

- by Jason Wells

I'd really appreciate recommendations on the most efficient way to approach this. I'm building a simple javascript application which displays a list of records and allows the user to edit a record by clicking an "Edit" link in the records row. The user also can click the "Add" link to pop open a dialog allowing them to add a new record. Here's a working prototype of this: http://jsfiddle.net/FfRcG/ You'll note if you click "Edit" a dialog pops up with some canned values. And, if you click "Add", a dialog pops up with empty values. I need help on how to approach two problems I believe we need to pass our index to our edit dialog and reference the values within the JSON, but I am unsure how to pass the index when the user clicks edit. It bothers me that the Edit and Add div contents are so similiar (Edit just pre populates the values). I feel like there is a more efficient way of doing this but am at a loss. Here is my code for reference $(document).ready( function(){ // Our JSON (This would actually be coming from an AJAX database call) people = { "COLUMNS":["DATEMODIFIED", "NAME","AGE"], "DATA":[ ["9/6/2012", "Person 1","32"], ["9/5/2012","Person 2","23"] ] } // Here we loop over our JSON and build our HTML (Will refactor to use templating eventually) members = people.DATA; var newcontent = '<table width=50%><tr><td>date</td><td>name</td><td>age</td><td></td></tr>'; for(var i=0;i<members.length;i++) { newcontent+= '<tr id="member'+i+'"><td>' + members[i][0] + '</td>'; newcontent+= '<td>' + members[i][1] + '</td>'; newcontent+= '<td>' + members[i][2] + '</td>'; newcontent+= '<td><a href="#" class="edit" id=edit'+i+'>Edit</a></td><td>'; } newcontent += "</table>"; $("#result").html(newcontent); // Bind a dialog to the edit link $(".edit").click( function(){ // Trigger our dialog to open $("#edit").dialog("open"); // Not sure the most efficient way to change our dialog field values $("#name").val() // ??? alert($()); return false; }); // Bind a dialog to the add link $(".edit").click( function(){ // Trigger our dialog to open $("#add").dialog("open"); return false; }); // Bind a dialog to our edit DIV $("#edit").dialog(); // Bind a dialog to our add DIV $("#add").dialog(); }); And here's the HTML <h1>People</h1> <a href="#" class="add">Add a new person</a>  <div id="result"></div>  <div id="edit"> <form> <p>Name:<br/><input type="text" id="name" value="foo"></p> <p>Age:<br/><input type="text" id="age" value="33"></p> <input type="submit" value="Save" id="submitEdit"> </form> </div>  <div id="add"> <form> <p>Name:<br/><input type="text" id="name"></p> <p>Age:<br/><input type="text" id="age"></p> <input type="submit" value="Save" id="submitEdit"> </form> </div>

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Why is Java EE 6 better than Spring ?

- by arungupta

Java EE 6 was released over 2 years ago and now there are 14 compliant application servers. In all my talks around the world, a question that is frequently asked is Why should I use Java EE 6 instead of Spring ? There are already several blogs covering that topic: Java EE wins over Spring by Bill Burke Why will I use Java EE instead of Spring in new Enterprise Java projects in 2012 ? by Kai Waehner (more discussion on TSS) Spring to Java EE migration (Part 1 and 2, 3 and 4 coming as well) by David Heffelfinger Spring to Java EE - A Migration Experience by Lincoln Baxter Migrating Spring to Java EE 6 by Bert Ertman and Paul Bakker at NLJUG Moving from Spring to Java EE 6 - The Age of Frameworks is Over at TSS Java EE vs Spring Shootout by Rohit Kelapure and Reza Rehman at JavaOne 2011 Java EE 6 and the Ewoks by Murat Yener Definite excuse to avoid Spring forever - Bert Ertman and Arun Gupta I will try to share my perspective in this blog. First of all, I'd like to start with a note: Thank you Spring framework for filling the interim gap and providing functionality that is now included in the mainstream Java EE 6 application servers. The Java EE platform has evolved over the years learning from frameworks like Spring and provides all the functionality to build an enterprise application. Thank you very much Spring framework! While Spring was revolutionary in its time and is still very popular and quite main stream in the same way Struts was circa 2003, it really is last generation's framework - some people are even calling it legacy. However my theory is "code is king". So my approach is to build/take a simple Hello World CRUD application in Java EE 6 and Spring and compare the deployable artifacts. I started looking at the official tutorial Developing a Spring Framework MVC Application Step-by-Step but it is using the older version 2.5. I wasn't able to find any updated version in the current 3.1 release. Next, I downloaded Spring Tool Suite and thought that would provide some template samples to get started. A least a quick search did not show any handy tutorials - either video or text-based. So I searched and found a link to their SVN repository at src.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/. I tried the "mvc-basic" sample and the generated WAR file was 4.43 MB. While it was named a "basic" sample it seemed to come with 19 different libraries bundled but it was what I could find: ./WEB-INF/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar./WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-validator-4.1.0.Final.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/joda-time-1.6.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/joda-time-jsptags-1.0.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jstl-1.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-webmvc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar And it is not even using any database! The app deployed fine on GlassFish 3.1.2 but the "@Controller Example" link did not work as it was missing the context root. With a bit of tweaking I could deploy the application and assume that the account got created because no error was displayed in the browser or server log. Next I generated the WAR for "mvc-ajax" and the 5.1 MB WAR had 20 JARs (1 removed, 2 added): ./WEB-INF/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar./WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-validator-4.1.0.Final.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.6.4.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.6.4.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/joda-time-1.6.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jstl-1.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-webmvc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar 2 more JARs for just doing Ajax. Anyway, deploying this application gave the following error: Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializationConfig.<init>(Lorg/codehaus/jackson/map/ClassIntrospector;Lorg/codehaus/jackson/map/AnnotationIntrospector;Lorg/codehaus/jackson/map/introspect/VisibilityChecker;Lorg/codehaus/jackson/map/jsontype/SubtypeResolver;)V at org.springframework.samples.mvc.ajax.json.ConversionServiceAwareObjectMapper.<init>(ConversionServiceAwareObjectMapper.java:20) at org.springframework.samples.mvc.ajax.json.JacksonConversionServiceConfigurer.postProcessAfterInitialization(JacksonConversionServiceConfigurer.java:40) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:407) Seems like some incorrect repos in the "pom.xml". Next one is "mvc-showcase" and the 6.49 MB WAR now has 28 JARs as shown below: ./WEB-INF/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar./WEB-INF/lib/aspectjrt-1.6.10.jar./WEB-INF/lib/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/commons-io-2.0.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/el-api-2.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-validator-4.1.0.Final.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.8.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.8.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/javax.inject-1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jdom-1.0.jar./WEB-INF/lib/joda-time-1.6.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jstl-api-1.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/jstl-impl-1.2.jar./WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar./WEB-INF/lib/rome-1.0.0.jar./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-aop-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-asm-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-beans-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-support-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-core-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-expression-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/spring-webmvc-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar./WEB-INF/lib/validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar The app at least deployed and showed results this time. But still no database! Next I tried building "jpetstore" and got the error: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project org.springframework.samples.jpetstore:Could not resolve dependencies for project org.springframework.samples:org.springframework.samples.jpetstore:war:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies for [commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:jar:1.2.1 (compile), org.apache.struts:com.springsource.org.apache.struts:jar:1.2.9 (compile), javax.xml.rpc:com.springsource.javax.xml.rpc:jar:1.1.0 (compile), org.apache.commons:com.springsource.org.apache.commons.dbcp:jar:1.2.2.osgi (compile), commons-io:commons-io:jar:1.3.2 (compile), hsqldb:hsqldb:jar:1.8.0.7 (compile), org.apache.tiles:tiles-core:jar:2.2.0 (compile), org.apache.tiles:tiles-jsp:jar:2.2.0 (compile), org.tuckey:urlrewritefilter:jar:3.1.0 (compile), org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT (compile), org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT (compile), org.springframework:spring-context-support:jar:3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT (compile), org.springframework.webflow:spring-js:jar:2.0.7.RELEASE (compile), org.apache.ibatis:com.springsource.com.ibatis:jar:2.3.4.726 (runtime), com.caucho:com.springsource.com.caucho:jar:3.2.1 (compile), org.apache.axis:com.springsource.org.apache.axis:jar:1.4.0 (compile), javax.wsdl:com.springsource.javax.wsdl:jar:1.6.1 (compile), javax.servlet:jstl:jar:1.2 (runtime), org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:jar:1.6.5 (compile), javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5 (provided), javax.servlet.jsp:jsp-api:jar:2.1 (provided), junit:junit:jar:4.6 (test)]: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT: Could not transfer artifact org.springframework:spring-webmvc:pom:3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT from/to JBoss repository (http://repository.jboss.com/maven2): Access denied to: http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/springframework/spring-webmvc/3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-webmvc-3.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.pom It appears the sample is broken - maybe I was pulling from the wrong repository - would be great if someone were to point me at a good target to use here. With a 50% hit on samples in this repository, I started searching through numerous blogs, most of which have either outdated information (using XML-heavy Spring 2.5), some piece of configuration (which is a typical "feature" of Spring) is missing, or too much complexity in the sample. I finally found this blog that worked like a charm. This blog creates a trivial Spring MVC 3 application using Hibernate and MySQL. This application performs CRUD operations on a single table in a database using typical Spring technologies. I downloaded the sample code from the blog, deployed it on GlassFish 3.1.2 and could CRUD the "person" entity. The source code for this application can be downloaded here. More details on the application statistics below. And then I built a similar CRUD application in Java EE 6 using NetBeans wizards in a couple of minutes. The source code for the application can be downloaded here and the WAR here. The Spring Source Tool Suite may also offer similar wizard-driven capabilities but this blog focus primarily on comparing the runtimes. The lack of STS tutorials was slightly disappointing as well. NetBeans however has tons of text-based and video tutorials and tons of material even by the community. One more bit on the download size of tools bundle ... NetBeans 7.1.1 "All" is 211 MB (which includes GlassFish and Tomcat) Spring Tool Suite 2.9.0 is 347 MB (~ 65% bigger) This blog is not about the tooling comparison so back to the Java EE 6 version of the application .... In order to run the Java EE version on GlassFish, copy the MySQL Connector/J to glassfish3/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib/ext directory and create a JDBC connection pool and JDBC resource as: ./bin/asadmin create-jdbc-connection-pool --datasourceclassname \\ com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource --restype \\ javax.sql.DataSource --property \\ portNumber=3306:user=mysql:password=mysql:databaseName=mydatabase \\ myConnectionPool ./bin/asadmin create-jdbc-resource --connectionpoolid myConnectionPool jdbc/myDataSource I generated WARs for the two projects and the table below highlights some differences between them: Java EE 6 Spring WAR File Size 0.021030 MB 10.87 MB (~516x) Number of files 20 53 (> 2.5x) Bundled libraries 0 36 Total size of libraries 0 12.1 MB XML files 3 5 LoC in XML files 50 (11 + 15 + 24) 129 (27 + 46 + 16 + 11 + 19) (~ 2.5x) Total .properties files 1 Bundle.properties 2 spring.properties, log4j.properties Cold Deploy 5,339 ms 11,724 ms Second Deploy 481 ms 6,261 ms Third Deploy 528 ms 5,484 ms Fourth Deploy 484 ms 5,576 ms Runtime memory ~73 MB ~101 MB Some points worth highlighting from the table ... 516x WAR file, 10x deployment time - With 12.1 MB of libraries (for a very basic application) bundled in your application, the WAR file size and the deployment time will naturally go higher. The WAR file for Spring-based application is 516x bigger and the deployment time is double during the first deployment and ~ 10x during subsequent deployments. The Java EE 6 application is fully portable and will run on any Java EE 6 compliant application server. 36 libraries in the WAR - There are 14 Java EE 6 compliant application servers today. Each of those servers provide all the functionality like transactions, dependency injection, security, persistence, etc typically required of an enterprise or web application. There is no need to bundle 36 libraries worth 12.1 MB for a trivial CRUD application. These 14 compliant application servers provide all the functionality baked in. Now you can also deploy these libraries in the container but then you don't get the "portability" offered by Spring in that case. Does your typical Spring deployment actually do that ? 3x LoC in XML - The number of XML files is about 1.6x and the LoC is ~ 2.5x. So much XML seems circa 2003 when the Java language had no annotations. The XML files can be further reduced, e.g. faces-config.xml can be replaced without providing i18n, but I just want to compare stock applications. Memory usage - Both the applications were deployed on default GlassFish 3.1.2 installation and any additional memory consumed as part of deployment/access was attributed to the application. This is by no means scientific but at least provides an initial ballpark. This area definitely needs more investigation. Another table that compares typical Java EE 6 compliant application servers and the custom-stack created for a Spring application ... Java EE 6 Spring Web Container ? 53 MB (tcServer 2.6.3 Developer Edition) Security ? 12 MB (Spring Security 3.1.0) Persistence ? 6.3 MB (Hibernate 4.1.0, required) Dependency Injection ? 5.3 MB (Framework) Web Services ? 796 KB (Spring WS 2.0.4) Messaging ? 3.4 MB (RabbitMQ Server 2.7.1) 936 KB (Java client 936) OSGi ? 1.3 MB (Spring OSGi 1.2.1) GlassFish and WebLogic (starting at 33 MB) 83.3 MB There are differentiating factors on both the stacks. But most of the functionality like security, persistence, and dependency injection is baked in a Java EE 6 compliant application server but needs to be individually managed and patched for a Spring application. This very quickly leads to a "stack explosion". The Java EE 6 servers are tested extensively on a variety of platforms in different combinations whereas a Spring application developer is responsible for testing with different JDKs, Operating Systems, Versions, Patches, etc. Oracle has both the leading OSS lightweight server with GlassFish and the leading enterprise Java server with WebLogic Server, both Java EE 6 and both with lightweight deployment options. The Web Container offered as part of a Java EE 6 application server not only deploys your enterprise Java applications but also provide operational management, diagnostics, and mission-critical capabilities required by your applications. The Java EE 6 platform also introduced the Web Profile which is a subset of the specifications from the entire platform. It is targeted at developers of modern web applications offering a reasonably complete stack, composed of standard APIs, and is capable out-of-the-box of addressing the needs of a large class of Web applications. As your applications grow, the stack can grow to the full Java EE 6 platform. The GlassFish Server Web Profile starting at 33MB (smaller than just the non-standard tcServer) provides most of the functionality typically required by a web application. WebLogic provides battle-tested functionality for a high throughput, low latency, and enterprise grade web application. No individual managing or patching, all tested and commercially supported for you! Note that VMWare does have a server, tcServer, but it is non-standard and not even certified to the level of the standard Web Profile most customers expect these days. Customers who choose this risk proprietary lock-in since VMWare does not seem to want to formally certify with either Java EE 6 Enterprise Platform or with Java EE 6 Web Profile but of course it would be great if they were to join the community and help their customers reduce the risk of deploying on VMWare software. Some more points to help you decide choose between Java EE 6 and Spring ... Freedom to choose container - There are 14 Java EE 6 compliant application servers today, with a variety of open source and commercial offerings. A Java EE 6 application can be deployed on any of those containers. So if you deployed your application on GlassFish today and would like to scale up with your demands then you can deploy the same application to WebLogic. And because of the portability of a Java EE 6 application, you can even take it a different vendor altogether. Spring requires a runtime which could be any of these app servers as well. But why use Spring when all the required functionality is already baked into the application server itself ? Spring also has a different definition of portability where they claim to bundle all the libraries in the WAR file and move to any application server. But we saw earlier how bloated that archive could be. The equivalent features in Spring runtime offerings (mainly tcServer) are not all open source, not as mature, and often require manual assembly. Vendor choice - The Java EE 6 platform is created using the Java Community Process where all the big players like Oracle, IBM, RedHat, and Apache are conritbuting to make the platform successful. Each application server provides the basic Java EE 6 platform compliance and has its own competitive offerings. This allows you to choose an application server for deploying your Java EE 6 applications. If you are not happy with the support or feature of one vendor then you can move your application to a different vendor because of the portability promise offered by the platform. Spring is a set of products from a single company, one price book, one support organization, one sustaining organization, one sales organization, etc. If any of those cause a customer headache, where do you go ? Java EE, backed by multiple vendors, is a safer bet for those that are risk averse. Production support - With Spring, typically you need to get support from two vendors - VMWare and the container provider. With Java EE 6, all of this is typically provided by one vendor. For example, Oracle offers commercial support from systems, operating systems, JDK, application server, and applications on top of them. VMWare certainly offers complete production support but do you really want to put all your eggs in one basket ? Do you really use tcServer ? ;-) Maintainability - With Spring, you are likely building your own distribution with multiple JAR files, integrating, patching, versioning, etc of all those components. Spring's claim is that multiple JAR files allow you to go à la carte and pick the latest versions of different components. But who is responsible for testing whether all these versions work together ? Yep, you got it, its YOU! If something does not work, who patches and maintains the JARs ? Of course, you! Commercial support for such a configuration ? On your own! The Java EE application servers manage all of this for you and provide a well-tested and commercially supported bundle. While it is always good to realize that there is something new and improved that updates and replaces older frameworks like Spring, the good news is not only does a Java EE 6 container offer what is described here, most also will let you deploy and run your Spring applications on them while you go through an upgrade to a more modern architecture. End result, you get the best of both worlds - keeping your legacy investment but moving to a more agile, lightweight world of Java EE 6. A message to the Spring lovers ... The complexity in J2EE 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 led to the genesis of Spring but that was in 2004. This is 2012 and the name has changed to "Java EE 6" :-) There are tons of improvements in the Java EE platform to make it easy-to-use and powerful. Some examples: Adding @Stateless on a POJO makes it an EJB EJBs can be packaged in a WAR with no special packaging or deployment descriptors "web.xml" and "faces-config.xml" are optional in most of the common cases Typesafe dependency injection is now part of the Java EE platform Add @Path on a POJO allows you to publish it as a RESTful resource EJBs can be used as backing beans for Facelets-driven JSF pages providing full MVC Java EE 6 WARs are known to be kilobytes in size and deployed in milliseconds Tons of other simplifications in the platform and application servers So if you moved away from J2EE to Spring many years ago and have not looked at Java EE 6 (which has been out since Dec 2009) then you should definitely try it out. Just be at least aware of what other alternatives are available instead of restricting yourself to one stack. Here are some workshops and screencasts worth trying: screencast #37 shows how to build an end-to-end application using NetBeans screencast #36 builds the same application using Eclipse javaee-lab-feb2012.pdf is a 3-4 hours self-paced hands-on workshop that guides you to build a comprehensive Java EE 6 application using NetBeans Each city generally has a "spring cleanup" program every year. It allows you to clean up the mess from your house. For your software projects, you don't need to wait for an annual event, just get started and reduce the technical debt now! Move away from your legacy Spring-based applications to a lighter and more modern approach of building enterprise Java applications using Java EE 6. Watch this beautiful presentation that explains how to migrate from Spring -> Java EE 6: List of files in the Java EE 6 project: ./index.xhtml./META-INF./person./person/Create.xhtml./person/Edit.xhtml./person/List.xhtml./person/View.xhtml./resources./resources/css./resources/css/jsfcrud.css./template.xhtml./WEB-INF./WEB-INF/classes./WEB-INF/classes/Bundle.properties./WEB-INF/classes/META-INF./WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml./WEB-INF/classes/org./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/AbstractFacade.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/Person.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/Person_.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/PersonController$1.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/PersonController$PersonControllerConverter.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/PersonController.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/PersonFacade.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/util./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/util/JsfUtil.class./WEB-INF/classes/org/javaee/javaeemysql/util/PaginationHelper.class./WEB-INF/faces-config.xml./WEB-INF/web.xml List of files in the Spring 3.x project: ./META-INF ./META-INF/MANIFEST.MF./WEB-INF./WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml./WEB-INF/classes./WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties./WEB-INF/classes/org./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial/controller ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial/controller/MainController.class ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial/domain ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial/domain/Person.class ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial/service ./WEB-INF/classes/org/krams/tutorial/service/PersonService.class ./WEB-INF/hibernate-context.xml ./WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml ./WEB-INF/jsp ./WEB-INF/jsp/addedpage.jsp ./WEB-INF/jsp/addpage.jsp ./WEB-INF/jsp/deletedpage.jsp ./WEB-INF/jsp/editedpage.jsp ./WEB-INF/jsp/editpage.jsp ./WEB-INF/jsp/personspage.jsp ./WEB-INF/lib ./WEB-INF/lib/antlr-2.7.6.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/c3p0-0.9.1.2.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/cglib-nodep-2.2.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils-1.8.3.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester-2.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/ejb3-persistence-1.0.2.GA.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-annotations-3.4.0.GA.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-commons-annotations-3.1.0.GA.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-core-3.3.2.GA.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/javassist-3.7.ga.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/jstl-1.1.2.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/jta-1.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/junit-4.8.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.14.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/persistence-api-1.0.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-asm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-context-support-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-expression-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-jdbc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-tx-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/spring-webmvc-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/standard-1.1.2.jar ./WEB-INF/lib/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar ./WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml ./WEB-INF/spring.properties ./WEB-INF/web.xml So, are you excited about Java EE 6 ? Want to get started now ? Here are some resources: Java EE 6 SDK (including runtime, samples, tutorials etc) GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2 (Community) Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1.2 (Commercial) Java EE 6 using WebLogic 12c and NetBeans (Video) Java EE 6 with NetBeans and GlassFish (Video) Java EE with Eclipse and GlassFish (Video)

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Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications

- by dwahlin

Looking for a way to display HTML content within a Silverlight application? If you haven’t tried doing that before it can be challenging at first until you know a few tricks of the trade. Being able to display HTML is especially handy when you’re required to display RSS feeds (with embedded HTML), SQL Server Reporting Services reports, PDF files (not actually HTML – but the techniques discussed will work), or other HTML content. In this post I'll discuss three options for displaying HTML content in Silverlight applications and describe how my company is using these techniques in client applications. Displaying HTML Overlays If you need to display HTML over a Silverlight application (such as an RSS feed containing HTML data in it) you’ll need to set the Silverlight control’s windowless parameter to true. This can be done using the object tag as shown next: <object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="source" value="ClientBin/HTMLAndSilverlight.xap"/> <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" /> <param name="background" value="white" /> <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="4.0.50401.0" /> <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" /> <param name="windowless" value="true" /> <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=4.0.50401.0" style="text-decoration:none"> <img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161376" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/> </a> </object> By setting the control to “windowless” you can overlay HTML objects by using absolute positioning and other CSS techniques. Keep in mind that on Windows machines the windowless setting can result in a performance hit when complex animations or HD video are running since the plug-in content is displayed directly by the browser window. It goes without saying that you should only set windowless to true when you really need the functionality it offers. For example, if I want to display my blog’s RSS content on top of a Silverlight application I could set windowless to true and create a user control that grabbed the content and output it using a DataList control: <style type="text/css"> a {text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt;} </style> <div style="margin-top:10px; margin-left:10px;margin-right:5px;"> <asp:DataList ID="RSSDataList" runat="server" DataSourceID="RSSDataSource"> <ItemTemplate> <a href='<%# XPath("link") %>'><%# XPath("title") %></a> <br /> <%# XPath("description") %> <br /> </ItemTemplate> </asp:DataList> <asp:XmlDataSource ID="RSSDataSource" DataFile="http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/rss.aspx" XPath="rss/channel/item" CacheDuration="60" runat="server" /> </div> The user control can then be placed in the page hosting the Silverlight control as shown below. This example adds a Close button, additional content to display in the overlay window and the HTML generated from the user control. <div id="RSSDiv"> <div style="background-color:#484848;border:1px solid black;height:35px;width:100%;"> <img alt="Close Button" align="right" src="Images/Close.png" onclick="HideOverlay();" style="cursor:pointer;" /> </div> <div style="overflow:auto;width:800px;height:565px;"> <div style="float:left;width:100px;height:103px;margin-left:10px;margin-top:5px;"> <img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/dwahlin/dan2008.jpg" style="border:1px solid Gray" /> </div> <div style="float:left;width:300px;height:103px;margin-top:5px;"> <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin" style="margin-left:10px;font-size:20pt;">Dan Wahlin's Blog</a> </div> <br /><br /><br /> <div style="clear:both;margin-top:20px;"> <uc:BlogRoller ID="BlogRoller" runat="server" /> </div> </div> </div> Of course, we wouldn’t want the RSS HTML content to be shown until requested. Once it’s requested the absolute position of where it should show above the Silverlight control can be set using standard CSS styles. The following ID selector named #RSSDiv handles hiding the overlay div shown above and determines where it will be display on the screen. #RSSDiv { background-color:White; position:absolute; top:100px; left:300px; width:800px; height:600px; border:1px solid black; display:none; } Now that the HTML content to display above the Silverlight control is set, how can we show it as a user clicks a HyperlinkButton or other control in the application? Fortunately, Silverlight provides an excellent HTML bridge that allows direct access to content hosted within a page. The following code shows two JavaScript functions that can be called from Siverlight to handle showing or hiding HTML overlay content. The two functions rely on jQuery (http://www.jQuery.com) to make it easy to select HTML objects and manipulate their properties: function ShowOverlay() { rssDiv.css('display', 'block'); } function HideOverlay() { rssDiv.css('display', 'none'); } Calling the ShowOverlay function is as simple as adding the following code into the Silverlight application within a button’s Click event handler: private void OverlayHyperlinkButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("ShowOverlay"); } The result of setting the Silverlight control’s windowless parameter to true and showing the HTML overlay content is shown in the following screenshot: Thinking Outside the Box to Show HTML Content Setting the windowless parameter to true may not be a viable option for some Silverlight applications or you may simply want to go about showing HTML content a different way. The next technique I’ll show takes advantage of simple HTML, CSS and JavaScript code to handle showing HTML content while a Silverlight application is running in the browser. Keep in mind that with Silverlight’s HTML bridge feature you can always pop-up HTML content in a new browser window using code similar to the following: System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Navigate( new Uri("http://silverlight.net"), "_blank"); For this example I’ll demonstrate how to hide the Silverlight application while maximizing a container div containing the HTML content to show. This allows HTML content to take up the full screen area of the browser without having to set windowless to true and when done right can make the user feel like they never left the Silverlight application. The following HTML shows several div elements that are used to display HTML within the same browser window as the Silverlight application: <div id="JobPlanDiv"> <div style="vertical-align:middle"> <img alt="Close Button" align="right" src="Images/Close.png" onclick="HideJobPlanIFrame();" style="cursor:pointer;" /> </div> <div id="JobPlan_IFrame_Container" style="height:95%;width:100%;margin-top:37px;"></div> </div> The JobPlanDiv element acts as a container for two other divs that handle showing a close button and hosting an iframe that will be added dynamically at runtime. JobPlanDiv isn’t visible when the Silverlight application loads due to the following ID selector added into the page: #JobPlanDiv { position:absolute; background-color:#484848; overflow:hidden; left:0; top:0; height:100%; width:100%; display:none; } When the HTML content needs to be shown or hidden the JavaScript functions shown next can be used: var jobPlanIFrameID = 'JobPlan_IFrame'; var slHost = null; var jobPlanContainer = null; var jobPlanIFrameContainer = null; var rssDiv = null; $(document).ready(function () { slHost = $('#silverlightControlHost'); jobPlanContainer = $('#JobPlanDiv'); jobPlanIFrameContainer = $('#JobPlan_IFrame_Container'); rssDiv = $('#RSSDiv'); }); function ShowJobPlanIFrame(url) { jobPlanContainer.css('display', 'block'); $('<iframe id="' + jobPlanIFrameID + '" src="' + url + '" style="height:100%;width:100%;" />') .appendTo(jobPlanIFrameContainer); slHost.css('width', '0%'); } function HideJobPlanIFrame() { jobPlanContainer.css('display', 'none'); $('#' + jobPlanIFrameID).remove(); slHost.css('width', '100%'); } ShowJobPlanIFrame() handles showing the JobPlanDiv div and adding an iframe into it dynamically. Once JobPlanDiv is shown, the Silverlight control host has its width set to a value of 0% to allow the control to stay alive while making it invisible to the user. I found that this technique works better across multiple browsers as opposed to manipulating the Silverlight control host div’s display or visibility properties. Now that you’ve seen the code to handle showing and hiding the HTML content area, let’s switch focus to the Silverlight application. As a user clicks on a link such as “View Report” the ShowJobPlanIFrame() JavaScript function needs to be called. The following code handles that task: private void ReportHyperlinkButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { ShowBrowser(_BaseUrl + "/Report.aspx"); } public void ShowBrowser(string url) { HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("ShowJobPlanIFrame", url); } Any URL can be passed into the ShowBrowser() method which handles invoking the JavaScript function. This includes standard web pages or even PDF files. We’ve used this technique frequently with our SmartPrint control (http://www.smartwebcontrols.com) which converts Silverlight screens into PDF documents and displays them. Here’s an example of the content generated: Silverlight 4’s WebBrowser Control Both techniques shown to this point work well when Silverlight is running in-browser but not so well when it’s running out-of-browser since there’s no host page that you can access using the HTML bridge. Fortunately, Silverlight 4 provides a WebBrowser control that can be used to perform the same functionality quite easily. We’re currently using it in client applications to display PDF documents, SSRS reports and standard HTML content. Using the WebBrowser control simplifies the application quite a bit since no JavaScript is required if the application only runs out-of-browser. Here’s a simple example of defining the WebBrowser control in XAML. I typically define it in MainPage.xaml when a Silverlight Navigation template is used to create the project so that I can re-use the functionality across multiple screens. <Grid x:Name="WebBrowserGrid" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Visibility="Collapsed"> <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"> <Border Background="#484848" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Height="40"> <Image x:Name="WebBrowserImage" Width="100" Height="33" Cursor="Hand" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Source="/HTMLAndSilverlight;component/Assets/Images/Close.png" MouseLeftButtonDown="WebBrowserImage_MouseLeftButtonDown" /> </Border> <WebBrowser x:Name="JobPlanReportWebBrowser" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" /> </StackPanel> </Grid> Looking through the XAML you can see that a close image is defined along with the WebBrowser control. Because the URL that the WebBrowser should navigate to isn’t known at design time no value is assigned to the control’s Source property. If the XAML shown above is left “as is” you’ll find that any HTML content assigned to the WebBrowser doesn’t display properly. This is due to no height or width being set on the control. To handle this issue the following code is added into the XAML’s code-behind file to dynamically determine the height and width of the page and assign it to the WebBrowser. This is done by handling the SizeChanged event. void MainPage_SizeChanged(object sender, SizeChangedEventArgs e) { WebBrowserGrid.Height = JobPlanReportWebBrowser.Height = ActualHeight; WebBrowserGrid.Width = JobPlanReportWebBrowser.Width = ActualWidth; } When the user wants to view HTML content they click a button which executes the code shown in next: public void ShowBrowser(string url) { if (Application.Current.IsRunningOutOfBrowser) { JobPlanReportWebBrowser.NavigateToString("<html><body><iframe src='" + url + "' style='width:100%;height:97%;' /></body></html>"); WebBrowserGrid.Visibility = Visibility.Visible; } else { HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("ShowJobPlanIFrame", url); } } private void WebBrowserImage_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { WebBrowserGrid.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed; } Looking through the code you’ll see that it checks to see if the Silverlight application is running out-of-browser and then either displays the WebBrowser control or runs the JavaScript function discussed earlier. Although the WebBrowser control’s Source property could be assigned the URI of the page to navigate to, by assigning HTML content using the NavigateToString() method and adding an iframe, content can be shown from any site including cross-domain sites. This is especially handy when you need to grab a page from a reporting site that’s in a different domain than the Silverlight application. Here’s an example of viewing PDF file inside of an out-of-browser application. The first image shows the application running out-of-browser before the user clicks a PDF HyperlinkButton. The second image shows the PDF being displayed. While there are certainly other techniques that can be used, the ones shown here have worked well for us in different applications and provide the ability to display HTML content in-browser or out-of-browser. Feel free to add a comment if you have another tip or trick you like to use when working with HTML content in Silverlight applications. 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Unable to transfer data to or from mounted hard drive

- by user210335

So usually i'm good at sorting out issues. But this one has me at a loss! This issues has occured since upgrading my ubuntu so this was workingg prior. I use mounted hard drives to manage my downloads which are then copied over accordingly by a python based app. I found it was having issues with permissions to create anything on these mounted hard drives. I'm able to play and access he content of these drives so they're not faulty. My mount script looks like the following rw,user,exec,auto I really am stuck. Could anyone shed any light on how to fix this and allow me to access it. I've checked the properties and all groups should have read and write access so i'm very confused! thanks, edit here's the output of my mount options /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) none on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw) /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/tv type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/B88A30E88A30A4B2 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=simon) /dev/sdd1 on /media/simon/New Volume3 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) the main mount in question is /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/tv type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) heres my dmesg output. I tried cchanging permissions in a terminal and I got an io error. [52803.343417] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.343420] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.343422] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 9e 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.343805] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.343808] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.343810] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.343812] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.343813] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 67 00 00 08 00 [52803.344389] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344392] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344394] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344396] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344397] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e7 6f 00 00 08 00 [52803.344584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344587] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344589] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344591] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344592] Read(10): 28 00 07 3a cf b7 00 00 08 00 [52803.344776] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344779] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344781] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344783] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344784] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e7 97 00 00 08 00 [52803.344973] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.344976] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.344978] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.344980] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.344981] Read(10): 28 00 08 dd 57 ef 00 00 08 00 [52803.346745] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.346748] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.346750] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.346752] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.346754] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a c1 0f 00 00 08 00 [52803.349939] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.349942] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.349944] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.349946] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.349948] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.350147] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.350150] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.350152] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.350154] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.350155] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 97 00 00 08 00 [52803.351302] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.351305] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.351307] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.351309] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.351311] Read(10): 28 00 00 a4 1d cf 00 00 08 00 [52803.351894] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.351897] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.351899] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.351901] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.351902] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 67 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.353163] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.353166] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.353168] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.353170] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.353172] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 64 ef 00 00 08 00 [52803.353917] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.353920] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.353922] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.353924] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.353925] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.354484] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.354487] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.354489] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.354491] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.354492] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a d8 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.355005] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.355010] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.355013] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.355017] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.355019] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.355293] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.355298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.355301] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.355305] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.355308] Read(10): 28 00 00 a4 20 27 00 00 08 00 [52803.355575] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.355580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.355583] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.355587] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.355589] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d dc 67 00 00 08 00 [52803.356647] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.356650] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.356652] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.356654] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.356655] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a dd 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.357108] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.357111] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.357113] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.357115] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.357116] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 97 00 00 08 00 [52803.357298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.357300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.357302] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.357304] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.357306] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a 04 d7 00 00 08 00 [52803.360374] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.360377] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.360379] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.360382] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.360383] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 b7 00 00 08 00 [52803.360581] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.360584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.360586] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.360588] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.360589] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 c7 00 00 08 00 [52803.361352] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.361355] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.361357] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.361359] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.361360] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e1 af 00 00 08 00 [52803.362096] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362099] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362101] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362103] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362104] Read(10): 28 00 07 0a 64 e7 00 00 08 00 [52803.362555] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362558] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362560] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362562] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362563] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 65 d7 00 00 08 00 [52803.362747] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362750] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362752] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362754] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362755] Read(10): 28 00 01 4c 12 6f 00 00 08 00 [52803.362977] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.362980] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.362982] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.362984] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.362985] Read(10): 28 00 03 85 43 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.365197] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.365200] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.365202] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.365204] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.365206] Read(10): 28 00 07 15 46 4f 00 00 08 00 [52803.365524] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.365527] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.365528] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.365531] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.365532] Read(10): 28 00 07 11 78 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.369355] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.369360] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.369362] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.369365] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.369366] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e2 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.370806] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.370809] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.370811] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.370814] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.370815] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a c6 37 00 00 08 00 [52803.371630] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.371634] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.371636] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.371639] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.371640] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 66 57 00 00 08 00 [52803.371863] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.371867] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.371868] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.371871] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.371872] Read(10): 28 00 00 64 0b df 00 00 08 00 [52803.373467] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.373470] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.373472] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.373474] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.373476] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 83 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.373655] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.373658] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.373660] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.373662] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.373663] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 83 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.374063] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.374066] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.374068] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.374070] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.374071] Read(10): 28 00 08 db d5 5f 00 00 08 00 [52803.374602] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.374605] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.374607] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.374609] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.374611] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a bf a7 00 00 08 00 [52803.375259] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.375264] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.375267] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.375270] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.375272] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 66 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.375515] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.375520] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.375522] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.375526] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.375527] Read(10): 28 00 00 62 54 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.378506] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.378513] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.378516] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.378520] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.378522] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 66 bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.381048] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381054] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381057] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381061] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381063] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.381238] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381242] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381245] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381248] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381250] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.381382] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381386] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381388] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381392] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381394] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.381569] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.381573] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.381575] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.381579] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.381581] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 ae 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.382295] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.382300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.382302] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.382306] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.382307] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.382552] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.382556] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.382558] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.382562] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.382564] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a af 00 00 08 00 [52803.382794] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.382798] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.382801] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.382804] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.382806] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a c7 00 00 08 00 [52803.383269] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.383274] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.383277] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.383280] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.383282] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6a f7 00 00 08 00 [52803.383556] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.383560] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.383563] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.383566] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.383568] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b 2f 00 00 08 00 [52803.386185] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.386191] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.386194] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.386198] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.386200] Read(10): 28 00 01 4c 1b bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.386454] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.386458] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.386461] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.386465] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.386467] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b4 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.388320] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.388324] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.388326] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.388328] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.388329] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd de 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.388836] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.388838] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.388839] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.388841] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.388842] Read(10): 28 00 07 57 9f ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.389124] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.389126] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.389127] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.389129] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.389130] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.389244] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.389246] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.389248] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.389249] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.389250] Read(10): 28 00 07 e9 ee ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.390386] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.390389] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.390390] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.390392] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.390393] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a be 0f 00 00 08 00 [52803.390682] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.390685] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.390686] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.390688] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.390689] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b e7 00 00 08 00 [52803.390804] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.390806] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.390808] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.390809] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.390810] Read(10): 28 00 07 ed 17 bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.391449] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.391451] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.391452] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.391454] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.391455] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd e5 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.391956] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.391958] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.391960] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.391961] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.391962] Read(10): 28 00 00 b5 86 a7 00 00 08 00 [52803.392293] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.392295] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.392296] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.392298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.392299] Read(10): 28 00 07 18 bf bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.392843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.392845] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.392846] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.392848] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.392849] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b3 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.392929] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.392931] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.392932] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.392934] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.392935] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b3 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.393057] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393059] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393060] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393062] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393063] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 83 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.393286] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393288] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393289] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393291] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393292] Read(10): 28 00 00 67 6b bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.393720] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393722] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393723] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393725] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393725] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.393806] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393808] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393809] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393810] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393811] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.393892] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393894] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393895] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393896] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393897] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.393974] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.393976] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.393977] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.393978] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.393979] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 b2 17 00 00 08 00 [52803.394298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.394300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.394302] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.394303] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.394304] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d a6 a7 00 00 08 00 [52803.395577] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395582] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395585] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 9f 00 00 08 00 [52803.395721] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395724] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395725] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395726] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395727] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 67 00 00 08 00 [52803.395843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395845] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395846] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395847] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395848] Read(10): 28 00 02 a8 33 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.395960] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.395962] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.395963] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.395965] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.395965] Read(10): 28 00 00 b5 ae 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.396077] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396079] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396080] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396082] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396083] Read(10): 28 00 00 63 64 bf 00 00 08 00 [52803.396193] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396195] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396196] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396198] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396199] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e2 e7 00 00 08 00 [52803.396313] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396315] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396316] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396318] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396319] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b9 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.396435] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396437] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396438] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396439] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396441] Read(10): 28 00 02 ce 8e df 00 00 08 00 [52803.396555] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396557] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396558] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396560] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396561] Read(10): 28 00 0e 66 6d f7 00 00 08 00 [52803.396769] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396770] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396772] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396773] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396774] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e4 2f 00 00 08 00 [52803.396886] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.396888] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.396889] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.396890] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.396891] Read(10): 28 00 00 63 d4 3f 00 00 08 00 [52803.397002] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.397004] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.397005] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.397007] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.397007] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e4 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.400074] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400078] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400079] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400081] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400082] Read(10): 28 00 07 16 c7 5f 00 00 08 00 [52803.400318] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400320] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400322] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400323] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400324] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 01 87 00 00 08 00 [52803.400408] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400410] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400412] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400413] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400414] Read(10): 28 00 00 60 01 0f 00 00 08 00 [52803.400564] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400566] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400568] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400569] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400570] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d d1 d7 00 00 08 00 [52803.400841] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.400843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.400844] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.400846] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.400847] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a e3 47 00 00 08 00 [52803.401151] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.401153] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.401155] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.401156] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.401157] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b9 1f 00 00 08 00 [52803.401310] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.401312] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.401313] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.401315] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.401316] Read(10): 28 00 00 a4 1b 57 00 00 08 00 [52803.401877] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.401879] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.401880] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.401881] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.401882] Read(10): 28 00 0e 66 35 47 00 00 08 00 [52803.402032] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402033] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402034] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402036] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402037] Read(10): 28 00 06 30 69 ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.402148] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402150] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402151] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402153] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402154] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd d8 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.402263] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402265] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402266] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402267] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402268] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d ff 77 00 00 08 00 [52803.402376] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402378] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402379] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402381] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402382] Read(10): 28 00 00 5d ff 7f 00 00 08 00 [52803.402490] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402492] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402493] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402495] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402496] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 2f 00 00 08 00 [52803.402602] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402604] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402605] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402607] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402608] Read(10): 28 00 00 b5 ac 8f 00 00 08 00 [52803.402715] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402717] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402719] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402720] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402721] Read(10): 28 00 00 e1 18 ff 00 00 08 00 [52803.402829] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.402831] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.402833] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.402834] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.402835] Read(10): 28 00 09 bd ea cf 00 00 08 00 [52803.403999] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52803.404001] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52803.404003] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52803.404005] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52803.404006] Read(10): 28 00 07 1a b8 f7 00 00 08 00 [52832.950225] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52832.950230] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52832.950233] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52832.950235] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52832.950237] Write(10): 2a 00 00 60 bf 7f 00 00 08 00 [52832.950247] blk_update_request: 1077 callbacks suppressed [52832.950250] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 6340479 [52832.950253] quiet_error: 1077 callbacks suppressed [52832.950256] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 792552 [52832.950258] lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1 [52832.950269] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code [52832.950272] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] [52832.950273] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [52832.950276] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [52832.950277] Write(10): 2a 00 01 a5 f1 4f 00 00 08 00 [52832.950285] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 27652431 [52832.950287] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 3456546 [52832.950289] lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1

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The Incremental Architect´s Napkin – #3 – Make Evolvability inevitable

- by Ralf Westphal

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2014/06/04/the-incremental-architectacutes-napkin-ndash-3-ndash-make-evolvability-inevitable.aspxThe easier something to measure the more likely it will be produced. Deviations between what is and what should be can be readily detected. That´s what automated acceptance tests are for. That´s what sprint reviews in Scrum are for. It´s no small wonder our software looks like it looks. It has all the traits whose conformance with requirements can easily be measured. And it´s lacking traits which cannot easily be measured. Evolvability (or Changeability) is such a trait. If an operation is correct, if an operation if fast enough, that can be checked very easily. But whether Evolvability is high or low, that cannot be checked by taking a measure or two. Evolvability might correlate with certain traits, e.g. number of lines of code (LOC) per function or Cyclomatic Complexity or test coverage. But there is no threshold value signalling “evolvability too low”; also Evolvability is hardly tangible for the customer. Nevertheless Evolvability is of great importance - at least in the long run. You can get away without much of it for a short time. Eventually, though, it´s needed like any other requirement. Or even more. Because without Evolvability no other requirement can be implemented. Evolvability is the foundation on which all else is build. Such fundamental importance is in stark contrast with its immeasurability. To compensate this, Evolvability must be put at the very center of software development. It must become the hub around everything else revolves. Since we cannot measure Evolvability, though, we cannot start watching it more. Instead we need to establish practices to keep it high (enough) at all times. Chefs have known that for long. That´s why everybody in a restaurant kitchen is constantly seeing after cleanliness. Hygiene is important as is to have clean tools at standardized locations. Only then the health of the patrons can be guaranteed and production efficiency is constantly high. Still a kitchen´s level of cleanliness is easier to measure than software Evolvability. That´s why important practices like reviews, pair programming, or TDD are not enough, I guess. What we need to keep Evolvability in focus and high is… to continually evolve. Change must not be something to avoid but too embrace. To me that means the whole change cycle from requirement analysis to delivery needs to be gone through more often. Scrum´s sprints of 4, 2 even 1 week are too long. Kanban´s flow of user stories across is too unreliable; it takes as long as it takes. Instead we should fix the cycle time at 2 days max. I call that Spinning. No increment must take longer than from this morning until tomorrow evening to finish. Then it should be acceptance checked by the customer (or his/her representative, e.g. a Product Owner). For me there are several resasons for such a fixed and short cycle time for each increment: Clear expectations Absolute estimates (“This will take X days to complete.”) are near impossible in software development as explained previously. Too much unplanned research and engineering work lurk in every feature. And then pervasive interruptions of work by peers and management. However, the smaller the scope the better our absolute estimates become. That´s because we understand better what really are the requirements and what the solution should look like. But maybe more importantly the shorter the timespan the more we can control how we use our time. So much can happen over the course of a week and longer timespans. But if push comes to shove I can block out all distractions and interruptions for a day or possibly two. That´s why I believe we can give rough absolute estimates on 3 levels: Noon Tonight Tomorrow Think of a meeting with a Product Owner at 8:30 in the morning. If she asks you, how long it will take you to implement a user story or bug fix, you can say, “It´ll be fixed by noon.”, or you can say, “I can manage to implement it until tonight before I leave.”, or you can say, “You´ll get it by tomorrow night at latest.” Yes, I believe all else would be naive. If you´re not confident to get something done by tomorrow night (some 34h from now) you just cannot reliably commit to any timeframe. That means you should not promise anything, you should not even start working on the issue. So when estimating use these four categories: Noon, Tonight, Tomorrow, NoClue - with NoClue meaning the requirement needs to be broken down further so each aspect can be assigned to one of the first three categories. If you like absolute estimates, here you go. But don´t do deep estimates. Don´t estimate dozens of issues; don´t think ahead (“Issue A is a Tonight, then B will be a Tomorrow, after that it´s C as a Noon, finally D is a Tonight - that´s what I´ll do this week.”). Just estimate so Work-in-Progress (WIP) is 1 for everybody - plus a small number of buffer issues. To be blunt: Yes, this makes promises impossible as to what a team will deliver in terms of scope at a certain date in the future. But it will give a Product Owner a clear picture of what to pull for acceptance feedback tonight and tomorrow. Trust through reliability Our trade is lacking trust. Customers don´t trust software companies/departments much. Managers don´t trust developers much. I find that perfectly understandable in the light of what we´re trying to accomplish: delivering software in the face of uncertainty by means of material good production. Customers as well as managers still expect software development to be close to production of houses or cars. But that´s a fundamental misunderstanding. Software development ist development. It´s basically research. As software developers we´re constantly executing experiments to find out what really provides value to users. We don´t know what they need, we just have mediated hypothesises. That´s why we cannot reliably deliver on preposterous demands. So trust is out of the window in no time. If we switch to delivering in short cycles, though, we can regain trust. Because estimates - explicit or implicit - up to 32 hours at most can be satisfied. I´d say: reliability over scope. It´s more important to reliably deliver what was promised then to cover a lot of requirement area. So when in doubt promise less - but deliver without delay. Deliver on scope (Functionality and Quality); but also deliver on Evolvability, i.e. on inner quality according to accepted principles. Always. Trust will be the reward. Less complexity of communication will follow. More goodwill buffer will follow. So don´t wait for some Kanban board to show you, that flow can be improved by scheduling smaller stories. You don´t need to learn that the hard way. Just start with small batch sizes of three different sizes. Fast feedback What has been finished can be checked for acceptance. Why wait for a sprint of several weeks to end? Why let the mental model of the issue and its solution dissipate? If you get final feedback after one or two weeks, you hardly remember what you did and why you did it. Resoning becomes hard. But more importantly youo probably are not in the mood anymore to go back to something you deemed done a long time ago. It´s boring, it´s frustrating to open up that mental box again. Learning is harder the longer it takes from event to feedback. Effort can be wasted between event (finishing an issue) and feedback, because other work might go in the wrong direction based on false premises. Checking finished issues for acceptance is the most important task of a Product Owner. It´s even more important than planning new issues. Because as long as work started is not released (accepted) it´s potential waste. So before starting new work better make sure work already done has value. By putting the emphasis on acceptance rather than planning true pull is established. As long as planning and starting work is more important, it´s a push process. Accept a Noon issue on the same day before leaving. Accept a Tonight issue before leaving today or first thing tomorrow morning. Accept a Tomorrow issue tomorrow night before leaving or early the day after tomorrow. After acceptance the developer(s) can start working on the next issue. Flexibility As if reliability/trust and fast feedback for less waste weren´t enough economic incentive, there is flexibility. After each issue the Product Owner can change course. If on Monday morning feature slices A, B, C, D, E were important and A, B, C were scheduled for acceptance by Monday evening and Tuesday evening, the Product Owner can change her mind at any time. Maybe after A got accepted she asks for continuation with D. But maybe, just maybe, she has gotten a completely different idea by then. Maybe she wants work to continue on F. And after B it´s neither D nor E, but G. And after G it´s D. With Spinning every 32 hours at latest priorities can be changed. And nothing is lost. Because what got accepted is of value. It provides an incremental value to the customer/user. Or it provides internal value to the Product Owner as increased knowledge/decreased uncertainty. I find such reactivity over commitment economically very benefical. Why commit a team to some workload for several weeks? It´s unnecessary at beast, and inflexible and wasteful at worst. If we cannot promise delivery of a certain scope on a certain date - which is what customers/management usually want -, we can at least provide them with unpredecented flexibility in the face of high uncertainty. Where the path is not clear, cannot be clear, make small steps so you´re able to change your course at any time. Premature completion Customers/management are used to premeditating budgets. They want to know exactly how much to pay for a certain amount of requirements. That´s understandable. But it does not match with the nature of software development. We should know that by now. Maybe there´s somewhere in the world some team who can consistently deliver on scope, quality, and time, and budget. Great! Congratulations! I, however, haven´t seen such a team yet. Which does not mean it´s impossible, but I think it´s nothing I can recommend to strive for. Rather I´d say: Don´t try this at home. It might hurt you one way or the other. However, what we can do, is allow customers/management stop work on features at any moment. With spinning every 32 hours a feature can be declared as finished - even though it might not be completed according to initial definition. I think, progress over completion is an important offer software development can make. Why think in terms of completion beyond a promise for the next 32 hours? Isn´t it more important to constantly move forward? Step by step. We´re not running sprints, we´re not running marathons, not even ultra-marathons. We´re in the sport of running forever. That makes it futile to stare at the finishing line. The very concept of a burn-down chart is misleading (in most cases). Whoever can only think in terms of completed requirements shuts out the chance for saving money. The requirements for a features mostly are uncertain. So how does a Product Owner know in the first place, how much is needed. Maybe more than specified is needed - which gets uncovered step by step with each finished increment. Maybe less than specified is needed. After each 4–32 hour increment the Product Owner can do an experient (or invite users to an experiment) if a particular trait of the software system is already good enough. And if so, she can switch the attention to a different aspect. In the end, requirements A, B, C then could be finished just 70%, 80%, and 50%. What the heck? It´s good enough - for now. 33% money saved. Wouldn´t that be splendid? Isn´t that a stunning argument for any budget-sensitive customer? You can save money and still get what you need? Pull on practices So far, in addition to more trust, more flexibility, less money spent, Spinning led to “doing less” which also means less code which of course means higher Evolvability per se. Last but not least, though, I think Spinning´s short acceptance cycles have one more effect. They excert pull-power on all sorts of practices known for increasing Evolvability. If, for example, you believe high automated test coverage helps Evolvability by lowering the fear of inadverted damage to a code base, why isn´t 90% of the developer community practicing automated tests consistently? I think, the answer is simple: Because they can do without. Somehow they manage to do enough manual checks before their rare releases/acceptance checks to ensure good enough correctness - at least in the short term. The same goes for other practices like component orientation, continuous build/integration, code reviews etc. None of that is compelling, urgent, imperative. Something else always seems more important. So Evolvability principles and practices fall through the cracks most of the time - until a project hits a wall. Then everybody becomes desperate; but by then (re)gaining Evolvability has become as very, very difficult and tedious undertaking. Sometimes up to the point where the existence of a project/company is in danger. With Spinning that´s different. If you´re practicing Spinning you cannot avoid all those practices. With Spinning you very quickly realize you cannot deliver reliably even on your 32 hour promises. Spinning thus is pulling on developers to adopt principles and practices for Evolvability. They will start actively looking for ways to keep their delivery rate high. And if not, management will soon tell them to do that. Because first the Product Owner then management will notice an increasing difficulty to deliver value within 32 hours. There, finally there emerges a way to measure Evolvability: The more frequent developers tell the Product Owner there is no way to deliver anything worth of feedback until tomorrow night, the poorer Evolvability is. Don´t count the “WTF!”, count the “No way!” utterances. In closing For sustainable software development we need to put Evolvability first. Functionality and Quality must not rule software development but be implemented within a framework ensuring (enough) Evolvability. Since Evolvability cannot be measured easily, I think we need to put software development “under pressure”. Software needs to be changed more often, in smaller increments. Each increment being relevant to the customer/user in some way. That does not mean each increment is worthy of shipment. It´s sufficient to gain further insight from it. Increments primarily serve the reduction of uncertainty, not sales. Sales even needs to be decoupled from this incremental progress. No more promises to sales. No more delivery au point. Rather sales should look at a stream of accepted increments (or incremental releases) and scoup from that whatever they find valuable. Sales and marketing need to realize they should work on what´s there, not what might be possible in the future. But I digress… In my view a Spinning cycle - which is not easy to reach, which requires practice - is the core practice to compensate the immeasurability of Evolvability. From start to finish of each issue in 32 hours max - that´s the challenge we need to accept if we´re serious increasing Evolvability. Fortunately higher Evolvability is not the only outcome of Spinning. Customer/management will like the increased flexibility and “getting more bang for the buck”.

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