From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T05:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange Segfault

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On 7/13/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Jul 13, 12:03 pm, "Glen Holcomb" <damnbig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have an interesting problem.  I have a script that I wish to use to
> check
> > a database and then map drives based on who is logging on and the info
> in
> > the database.
> >
> > When I run the script on any of the machines in the computer lab it
> > segfaults.  When I copy the exact same code that is in the script into
> an
> > irb session and run it I don't have any trouble.  I can run the script
> > proper on my office workstation.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
> >
> > I'm running ruby 1.8.6 on all the machines in question.
> >
> > Here is the script:
> >
> > require 'Win32API'
> > require 'xmlrpc/client'
> >
> > class User
> >     def lookup
> >     user = "0" * 20
> >
> >     getUserName = Win32API.new("advapi32", "GetUserName", 'P', "V")
> >
> >     getUserName.call(user)
> >
> >     return user
> >     end
> >
> >     def account_created?(login)
> >         server = XMLRPC::Client.new2(' http://localhost:3003/user/api'<http://localhost:3003/user/api%27>
> )
> >
> >         result = server.call('Check', login)
> >
> >         if result == 0
> >           return false
> >         else
> >             return true
> >         end
> >     end
> >
> >     def map_drives(login)
> >         system("net use x: /delete /y")
> >         system("net use l: /delete /y")
> >         system("net use x: //cad1/#{login}")
> >         system("net use l: //cad1/shared")
> >     end
> > end
> >
> > user = User.new
> >
> > username = user.lookup
> >
> > if user.account_created?(username)
> >     user.map_drives(username)
> > end
>
> What version of Windows are you on? Is there a backtrace you could
> show us? That would help us determine whether or not it's the system
> calls or something else.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>
> All the machines involved are running XP Pro.

This is the best I can get out of it:

c:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\xmlrpc\client.rb:414:in 'call'
C:\Startup\map.rb:24:in 'account_created?'
C:\Startup\map.rb:50

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