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Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 14
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 14 |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:00:58 -0800 |
Well, that's actually good news since reproducing a problem is often
the first step in fixing it.
I'll try it from the command line.
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:50 AM Frans Houweling <fhouweling@email.it> wrote:
>
> Hi, please allow me to add to the confusion.
>
> On Linux Slackware current, executing Ricardo's syntax as a file gives:
>
> > pspp prova.sps
> free(): double free detected in tcache 2
> ******************************************************
> You have discovered a bug in PSPP. Please report this
> to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. Please include this entire
> message, *plus* several lines of output just above it.
> For the best chance at having the bug fixed, also
> include the syntax file that triggered it and a sample
> of any data file used for input.
> proximate cause: Assertion Failure/Abort
> version: GNU pspp 1.4.1
> host_system: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> build_system: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> locale_dir: /usr/local/share/locale
> compiler version: 9.3.0
> ******************************************************
> Aborted
>
> while no problem occurs executing line by line in the interactive shell.
>
> frans
>
> On 3/7/21 7:59 PM, John Darrington wrote:
> > It seems that the DELETE VARIABLES line is causing this problem.
> >
> > Until a fix for that is forthcoming, I suggest leaving out that line.
> >
> > J'
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 05:27:22PM +0000, Ricardo Mejias wrote:
> > To John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>:
> >
> > I think that the content of this earlier email may answer your
> > questions.
> >
> > The file I was working with is a merge of voter registration data
> > from all of the counties in Florida (which is public information). Since I
> > could not make the N 100 work, I decided to do to the file of the smallest
> > county what I did to the Florida totals, so that I could have one small
> > enough to email it to you. First, I ran this smaller file on the same code.
> > It crashed one line before where the larger one used to crash, on NUMERIC
> > EndDate (F10). Then I re-ran the larger one and it also crashed one the
> > line before where it used to crash.
> >
> > But this time, the crashed happened when the Variables window showed
> > up and I tried to go to View Data. First an error message window popped up
> > saying "Assertion Failed". Retry and Ignore would not do anything, so I
> > clicked on Abort and had a crash.
> >
> > Then I ran the code on the smaller file through COMPUTE EndDate =
> > YRMODA(2021, 01, 31) and it also crashed. So, the file I have attached
> > should be good for testing whether or not you get the same results.
> >
> > Please let me know what you find and what solutions you suggest.
> >
> > GET /FILE =
> > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedFieldsLIB_20210209.sav".
> > FILTER OFF.
> > USE ALL.
> > SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)).
> > STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).
> > COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5).
> > DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode. /*Worked up to here. Crashes
> > after that*/
> > NUMERIC EndDate (F10). /*Crashed here*/
> > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).
> > EXECUTE.
> > FORMAT EndDate (ADATE10).
> > COMPUTE AgeInMonths = DATEDIFF(EndDate,BirthDate,'days') /
> > (365.25*12).
> >
> > [cid:fff1dfae-d921-4ce8-8335-866980b345d9]
> > From: Pspp-users
> > <pspp-users-bounces+ricardomejias=hotmail.com@gnu.org> on behalf of
> > pspp-users-request@gnu.org <pspp-users-request@gnu.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 12:00 PM
> > To: pspp-users@gnu.org <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> > Subject: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 14
> >
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> > Today's Topics:
> >
> > 1. Re: Attached Crashing File (John Darrington)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:27:44 +0100
> > From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
> > To: amead@alanmead.org
> > Cc: Ricardo Mejias <ricardomejias@hotmail.com>, "pspp-users@gnu.org"
> > <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> > Subject: Re: Attached Crashing File
> > Message-ID: <20210307162744.GA17362@jocasta.intra>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> > I haven't been following this discussion too closely I'm afraid.
> >
> > Do we have a reliable test case for this assertion failure? If so,
> > should be relatively easy to fix.
> >
> > And what is the file/line number of the failed assertion? That might
> > give us a clue.
> >
> > J'
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 09:53:57AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
> > Ben or John,
> >
> > What do you suggest? I think there's clearly a problem as shown
> > by the
> > assertion that failed?
> >
> > However, if you have a fix, I don't know how we will test it...
> >
> > -Alan
> >
> > On 3/7/2021 9:43 AM, Ricardo Mejias wrote:
> > >
> > > The file I was working with is a merge of voter registration
> > data from
> > > all of the counties in Florida (which is public information).
> > > Since I could not make the N 100 work, I decided to do to the
> > file of
> > > the smallest county what I did to the Florida totals, so that
> > I could
> > > have one small enough to email it to you. First, I ran this
> > smaller
> > > file on the same code. It crashed one line before where the
> > larger
> > > one used to crash, on NUMERIC EndDate (F10). Then I re-ran
> > the larger
> > > one and it also crashed one the line before where it used to
> > crash.
> > >
> > > But this time, the crashed happened when the Variables window
> > showed
> > > up and I tried to go to View Data. First an error message
> > window
> > > popped up saying "Assertion Failed". Retry and Ignore would
> > not do
> > > anything, so I clicked on Abort and had a crash.
> > >
> > > Then I ran the code on the smaller file through COMPUTE
> > EndDate =
> > > YRMODA(2021, 01, 31) and it also crashed. So, the file I have
> > > attached should be good for testing whether or not you get the
> > same
> > > results.
> > >
> > > Please let me know what you find and what solutions you
> > suggest.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > GET /FILE =
> > >
> > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedFieldsLIB_20210209.sav".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > FILTER OFF.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > USE ALL.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5).
> > >
> > > DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode. /*Worked up to here.
> > Crashes
> > > after that*/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > NUMERIC EndDate (F10).
> > >
> > >
> > > /*Crashed here*/
> > >
> > > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > EXECUTE.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > FORMAT EndDate (ADATE10).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > COMPUTE AgeInMonths = DATEDIFF(EndDate,BirthDate,'days') /
> > (365.25*12).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > *From:* Pspp-users
> > > <pspp-users-bounces+ricardomejias=hotmail.com@gnu.org> on
> > behalf of
> > > pspp-users-request@gnu.org <pspp-users-request@gnu.org>
> > > *Sent:* Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:52 AM
> > > *To:* pspp-users@gnu.org <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> > > *Subject:* Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 10
> > >
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> > > Today's Topics:
> > >
> > > 1. Re: PROBLEM CREATING A DATE VARIABLE (Ricardo Mejias)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:51:52 +0000
> > > From: Ricardo Mejias <ricardomejias@hotmail.com>
> > > To: "amead@alanmead.org" <amead@alanmead.org>,
> > "pspp-users@gnu.org"
> > > <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> > > Subject: Re: PROBLEM CREATING A DATE VARIABLE
> > > Message-ID:
> > >
> > >
> > <BN6PR19MB32344CE2E82928FA5C60F657B6949@BN6PR19MB3234.namprd19.prod.outlook.com>
> > >
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > > My version of PSPP is GNU pspp 1.4.1-g79ad47 and I am on
> > Windows 10.
> > > BirthDate is Date and ResidenceZipcode is String.
> > >
> > > [cid:d56e0513-f13a-44e6-8635-28c40a1f3aaf]
> > >
> > > I used this code and I still got the total number of records of
> > > 15,782,637.
> > > GET /FILE =
> > >
> > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedAndAddedFields_20210209.sav".
> > > N 100.
> > >
> > > I reran the code up to the line where it crashes and it
> > crashed again.
> > > GET /FILE =
> > >
> > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedAndAddedFields_20210209.sav".
> > > FILTER OFF.
> > > USE ALL.
> > > SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)).
> > > STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).
> > > COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5).
> > > DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode.
> > > NUMERIC EndDate (F10). /*Worked up to here. Crashes
> > after that*/
> > > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).
> > > EXECUTE.
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Alan Mead <amead@alanmead.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 11:31 PM
> > > To: Ricardo Mejias <ricardomejias@hotmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: PROBLEM CREATING A DATE VARIABLE
> > >
> > > This page describes selecting cases:
> > >
> > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLVMB_sub/statistics_reference_project_ddita/spss/base/syn_n_of_cases_overview.html
> > >
> > <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLVMB_sub/statistics_reference_project_ddita/spss/base/syn_n_of_cases_overview.html>
> > > . Suposedly, this will only read 100 cases:
> > >
> > > GET FILE='/data/city.sav'.
> > > N 100.
> > >
> > > What version of PSPP are you using? YOu can see it if you
> > select Help
> > > > About:
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > What types are BirthDate and ResidenceZipcode? I ran your
> > script and
> > > it ran fine, but it had errors that prevented some of the
> > lines from
> > > executing. But the lines that you think are causing trouble
> > seemed to
> > > execute correctly:
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > -Alan
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/6/2021 8:33 PM, Ricardo Mejias wrote:
> > > I restarted the computer and re-ran this code and it crashed
> > in the
> > > same place again. If you can show me what code I need to use
> > to
> > > select the first 100 records of a file, I will do that for you
> > to try
> > > this with my file. I already looked that up and tried it but
> > it also
> > > crashed.
> > >
> > > GET /FILE =
> > >
> > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedAndAddedFields_20210209.sav"
> > > FILTER OFF.
> > > USE ALL.
> > > SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)).
> > > STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).
> > > COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5).
> > > DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode.
> > > NUMERIC EndDate (F10). /*Worked up to here. Crashes after
> > that*/
> > > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).
> > > EXECUTE.
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Alan Mead
> > <amead2@alanmead.org><mailto:amead2@alanmead.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:23 PM
> > > To: Ricardo Mejias
> > > <ricardomejias@hotmail.com><mailto:ricardomejias@hotmail.com>;
> > > pspp-users@gnu.org<mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org
> > > <mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>>
> > > <pspp-users@gnu.org><mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>
> > > Subject: Re: PROBLEM CREATING A DATE VARIABLE
> > >
> > > Sounds like PSPP or psppire is crashing, which shouldn't be
> > happening.
> > >
> > > But I cannot replicate the issue. I opened a dataset in PSPP
> > version
> > > GNU pspp 1.4.0-gc3c044 on Windows and I executed these lines:
> > >
> > > NUMERIC EndDate (F10). /*Worked up to here.
> > > Crashes on the next line*/
> > > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).
> > > execute.
> > >
> > > And PSPP operated as expected. I see a new variable, EndDate,
> > with a
> > > value of 160086 for all cases.
> > >
> > > How sure are you that your copy crashes with YRMODA()?
> > >
> > > It's also possible that your PSPP entered an unstable state for
> > > whatever reason. Maybe if you reboot your computer and restart
> > PSPP it
> > > will not re-occur?
> > >
> > > I guess if it does continue to occur and you cannot send
> > information
> > > to replicate the problem, I'd try running PSPP in batch mode
> > from the
> > > command line, because if it is crashing, you will probably see
> > an
> > > error message that you can report and which may allow the
> > problem to
> > > be identified. Here's what I had to type:
> > >
> > > "C:\Program Files (x86)\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" error.sps
> > >
> > > (WITH the double quotes).
> > >
> > > -Alan
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/6/2021 6:06 PM, Ricardo Mejias wrote:
> > > The code below is applied to a file that already contains
> > several
> > > variables, to which I want to add two more that I create (but
> > it is
> > > too large to go through email and my attempts to select the
> > first 100
> > > records is not working either). When the code gets to COMPUTE
> > EndDate
> > > = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31)., the program crashes with all of its
> > windows
> > > disappearing from the screen.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong and what do I have to do to correct it?
> > >
> > > GET /FILE =
> > >
> > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedAndAddedFields_20210209.sav"
> > > FILTER OFF.
> > > USE ALL.
> > > SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)).
> > >
> > > STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).
> > > COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5).
> > > DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode.
> > >
> > > NUMERIC EndDate (F10). /*Worked up to here.
> > > Crashes on the next line*/
> > > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).
> > > FORMAT EndDate (ADATE10).
> > > COMPUTE AgeInMonths = DATEDIFF(EndDate,BirthDate,'days') /
> > (365.25*12).
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Pspp-users
> > >
> > <pspp-users-bounces+ricardomejias=hotmail.com@gnu.org><mailto:pspp-users-bounces+ricardomejias=hotmail.com@gnu.org>
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> > > Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 12:00 PM
> > > To: pspp-users@gnu.org<mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org
> > > <mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>>
> > > <pspp-users@gnu.org><mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>
> > > Subject: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 6
> > >
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> > > 1. Re: Re: PSPP for windows. (Harry Thijssen)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 21:25:20 +0100
> > > From: Harry Thijssen
> > > <pspp4windows@gmail.com><mailto:pspp4windows@gmail.com>
> > > To: pspp-users
> > <pspp-users@gnu.org><mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>, Alan
> > > Mead <amead2@alanmead.org><mailto:amead2@alanmead.org>
> > > Subject: Re: Re: PSPP for windows.
> > > Message-ID:
> > >
> > >
> > <CAMMrg9T14ARGayXSauZ_MhyMTv9NeP6Ld-+N9AW7O5XU-UtT4w@mail.gmail.com><CAMMrg9T14ARGayXSauZ_MhyMTv9NeP6Ld-+N9AW7O5XU-UtT4w@mail.gmail.com">mailto:CAMMrg9T14ARGayXSauZ_MhyMTv9NeP6Ld-+N9AW7O5XU-UtT4w@mail.gmail.com>
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> > > >
> > > > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 19:31:19 -0600
> > > > From: Alan Mead
> > <amead2@alanmead.org><mailto:amead2@alanmead.org>
> > > > To: Gunnar Horrigmo
> > >
> > <gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no><mailto:gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no>,
> > > pspp-users@gnu.org<mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org
> > <mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>>
> > > > Subject: Re: PSPP for windows.
> > > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Harry Thijssen had set up a process to cross-compile PSPP on
> > Linux to
> > > > produce a windows package (and I think he also wrote the
> > nullsoft
> > > > installer).
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks Alan, but I don't earn the credits for the Nullsoft
> > installer. I am
> > > just a user of it. :-)
> > >
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> > > --
> > >
> > > Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
> > > President, Talent Algorithms Inc.
> > >
> > > science + technology = better workers
> > >
> > > http://www.alanmead.org <http://www.alanmead.org>
> > >
> > > The irony of this ... is that the Internet is
> > > both almost-infinitely expandable, while at the
> > > same time constrained within its own pre-defined
> > > box. And if that makes no sense to you, just
> > > reflect on the existence of Facebook. We have
> > > the vastness of the internet and yet billions
> > > of people decided to spend most of them time
> > > within a horribly designed, fake-news emporium
> > > of a website that sucks every possible piece of
> > > personal information out of you so it can sell it
> > > to others. And they see nothing wrong with that.
> > >
> > > -- Kieren McCarthy, commenting on why we are not
> > > all using IPv6
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
> > > President, Talent Algorithms Inc.
> > >
> > > science + technology = better workers
> > >
> > > https://talalg.com <https://talalg.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > Ginsberg's Theorem:
> > >
> > > 0. There is a game.
> > > 1. You can't win.
> > > 2. You can't break even.
> > > 3. You can't even get out of the game.
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> > --
> >
> > Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
> > President, Talent Algorithms Inc.
> >
> > science + technology = better workers
> >
> > http://www.alanmead.org
> >
> > The irony of this ... is that the Internet is
> > both almost-infinitely expandable, while at the
> > same time constrained within its own pre-defined
> > box. And if that makes no sense to you, just
> > reflect on the existence of Facebook. We have
> > the vastness of the internet and yet billions
> > of people decided to spend most of them time
> > within a horribly designed, fake-news emporium
> > of a website that sucks every possible piece of
> > personal information out of you so it can sell it
> > to others. And they see nothing wrong with that.
> >
> > -- Kieren McCarthy, commenting on why we are not
> > all using IPv6
> >
> >
> >
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