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-4 error on load of DLL
PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:16 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
Paul Laufer
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I have a programmer who is making a call to GoldMine and loading the gm7s32.dll file, and the connection attempt gets no return for perhaps 5 minutes, after which it gets a return of -4. This doesn't always happen, and on some machines it apparently never happens. I don't see anything that would explain why this is so. Here's the call he's making.

Code:
Private Declare Function GMW7_LoadAPI Lib "gm7s32.dll" Alias _
    "GMW_LoadAPI" ( _
    ByVal sSysDir As String, _
    ByVal sGoldDir As String, _
    ByVal sCommonDir As String, _
    ByVal sUser As String, _
    ByVal sPassword As String) As Long
   rc = GMW7_LoadAPI(SysPath, GMPath & ":", CommonPath & ":", GMUser, GMPassword)


I can see the EXE sitting in task manager waiting for the return. It takes 5 minutes and then it returns -4.

Anyone have any ideas where I should point him?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:49 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
DougCastell
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well, a -4 return means bad password. Is he using the currently-logged-in GoldMine user at each workstation and the same password for all?

It's weird that it takes 5-minutes though...

-Doug





Here is a list of all of the LoadBDE/LoadAPI return codes:
Code:

1  --  success
-1 --  BDE/API failed to load - this means a problem with BDE 6.7 - or your SQL engine in 7.0
-2 --  Cannot find license file -  6.7 or lower - can't find license.dbf, 7.0 can't find license.bin - the files should be in the GoldMine install directory.
-3 --  Cannot load license file - this could happen because of user rights on the machine, also caused on 6.7 or lower when certain data objects are instanced before BDE. In 7.0 - it's most probably rights.
-4 --  Failed to validate password
-5 --  Invalid GoldDir - couldn't resolve the Alias for the GoldDir parameter.
-6 --  Invalid CommonDir- couldn't resolve the Alias for the CommonDir parameter.
-7 --  Failed to allocate the needed TLS slot - TLS stands for Thread Local Storage so that unique data is stored for each thread, and certain variables are shared between all GMx32 threads.
-8 --  General failure - this is a catch all error in 6.7. In 7.0 these have been expanded to -11 through -19
-9 --  No access to files for this user - you've either passed an invalid user for the dataset, or no user at all.

Added in 6.7:
-10 --  No SQL credentials - you should set the SQL credentials for this user in the user's GM preferences dialog.

Added in 7.00.51208 are more detailed errors that would have just been -8 and they mirror the first 9 returns, except for -8. These are all VERY BAD ERRORS:

-11 --  FATAL Exception captured on DB Engine Initialization
-12 --  FATAL Exception captured on user/alias cleanup
-13 --  FATAL Exception captured when loading license file
-14 --  FATAL Exception captured when validating user credentials
-15 --  FATAL Exception captured when validating Gold Alias
-16 --  FATAL Exception captured when validating Common Alias
-17 --  FATAL Exception captured on extract_TLS()
-18 --  FATAL Exception captured on attempt to read user SQL credentials - this is either an intermittant data read problem (network not available) or it has no access to license.bin.
-19 --  FATAL Exception captured when checking file access

7.0 in general adds:
-20 -- Invalid data dictionary - cannot read/find datadict.xml or datadict67.xml. The file can't be found, or the file has been corrupted. Reinstall a good copy.

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