Broke The Logjam

Well I've been away from working on that conversion, in fact no work on the site got done at all. Bewilderment while working on a unpleasant and unwanted task has a way of discouraging any attempts at finding solutions. In spite of this I finally managed to break through on an earlier problem. One problem solved inevitably leads to yet another one. The earlier problem had to do with a function call to close a database connection that when invoked would crash the process that called it. There is nothing like seeing the words

child pid 79089 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

in a log file. Tracing the root cause is tedious and bound to mislead at times. I'm at another roadblock, but this one is minor, and I should be able to either solve it or circumvent it without too much hassle ... I hope. Well right now it's time to catch some shut eye.