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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2884.0. "NULL-POINTER error" by BACHUS::COLLART (Li p'ti fouineu) Fri Jun 18 1993 17:21

			Hello,

An ALL-IN-1 user has a problem when trying to read, edit ,...
an existing document; the operation fails with the message :

Error occurred during operation : NULL_POINTER

He is not sure that it is the first time he tries to access the
document since the upgrade ALL-IN-1 to v3.0; how can he recover the
document ? what is going wrong ?


additional info :

- user tries to access the document from WP

- document is WPS-PLUS

- when Reading the document it gives first the error

Error occurred during operation : NULL_POINTER

then it shows the -------top----------------

                 a few blank lines, 1 text line
  
                 ---------bottom--------------
 and then the message :
 Formatting document failed
gold/w : %OA-I-lastline, formatting document failed

In the meantime, Customer could recover the document (except for 2 lines)
by creating a new doc, GOLD getting the old doc;
at the end he gets the message : Source document is corrupt, 2 corrupt
                               lines were ignored


				Eric Collart & Veerle Laroche.

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2884.1Corrupted WPSDEF.WPLGIDDAY::SETHIAhhhh (-: an upside down smile from OZSat Jun 19 1993 08:218
    Hi Eric and Veerle,
    
    NULL-POINTER problem is due to a corrupted WPSDEF.WPL copy in a new one
    from the [.user] directory in oa$lib:.
    
    Regards,
    
    Sunil
2884.2NULL_POINTER only happens with one documentBACHUS::BHP144::LarocheVeerle LarocheMon Jun 21 1993 14:1913
Sunil,


He only has the problem with one document.  I don't think that the 
wpsdef.wpl will solve it.  However, I will try it out.  

The customer is going to send the document to me.


Thanks very much for the reply,


Veerle
2884.3There are a number of topic in the WPS-PLUS conferenceBUSHIE::SETHIAhhhh (-: an upside down smile from OZTue Jun 22 1993 01:2613
    Hi Veerle,
    
    Well I have seen a number of notes in the WPS-PLUS conference regarding
    the "NULL_POINTER" problems.  Maybe you should search the WPS-PLUS
    notes file no doubt saving you time and effort :-).
    
    The WPS-PLUS conference can be found on FREE::WPS-PLUS.
    
    Last suggestion have you tried Gold getting the document ?
    
    Regards,
    
    Sunil
2884.4Source document is corruptBACHUS::BHP144::LarocheVeerle LarocheTue Jun 22 1993 09:5812
Sunil,


Yes, the customer tried GOLD-Getting it.

The document could be recovered except for 2 lines ; the error message at 
that stage was :

	'Source document is corrupt, 2 corrupt lines were ignored'


Veerle