Process crash with no reason

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:34 AM, gil.shinar at gmail.com wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2:10 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>> gil.shi... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Jan 26, 8:40 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi... at semanchuk.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:13 PM, gil.shi... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> I'm running a program that is acting as a nice interface to  
>>>>> sybase'
>>>>> replication server. The program is using the cherrypy web  
>>>>> service for
>>>>> the GUI. The process is crashing every few days with no reason.  
>>>>> In the
>>>>> log I can see INFO and DEBUG (No ERROR) log lines and I do not  
>>>>> get any
>>>>> TraceBack python's message. This program is running on solaris 9
>>>>> machine.
>>>>> Where can I see or what can I do in order to find out what  
>>>>> causes the
>>>>> process to crash?
>>>>> I have tried simulating a "traceBack" message and I could see this
>>>>> traceback message in one of the log files I'm using. When the  
>>>>> process
>>>>> crashes without my help, I don't have a clue.
>>>>> Let me know if you need any other info
>>>> Although Python isn't immune to fatal errors like you describe, I'd
>>>> immediately suspect a 3rd-party module instead, esp. one written  
>>>> in C
>>>> or C++. Are you using anything like that?
>>
>>> No I do not.
>>
>> Then how are you interacting with Sybase?
>
> I'm using python's functions to run sybase sql commands.

Can you give a short code sample? I'm unaware of how one would use the  
standard Python library to talk to Sybase, unless Sybase has a raw  
socket interface or some such.