On 1/30/06, bobgoodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>As desktop databases for Linux, I guess one can only find > >>>OpenOffice Base and Kexi, is not it? > >>> > >>> > >>Rekall is in Fedora Extras > >>http://www.rekallrevealed.org/ > > > >Thanks, Markku, but as soon as I create a new table, rekall crashes! > > > Rekall crashes every time for me also. But I have recently salvaged > fifteen years of my son-in-laws customer database with the aid of > Navicat and MySql, both of which worked "out of the box." I would > suggest that you look at a trial copy of Navicat as a front end. >From strace: close(1022) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) close(1023) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) write(2, "KCrash: Application \'rekall\' cra"..., 41KCrash: Application 'rekall' crashing... ) = 41 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7edc708) = 5613 alarm(0) = 2 waitpid(5613, NULL, 0) = 5613 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- write(8, "\0", 1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) sigreturn() = ? (mask now [SEGV]) exit_group(253) Kexi does not update the result of queries if one changes elements of a table. A restart seems to be needed! Navicat is commercial... Well, I think I will use OpenOffice Base, until I learn Postgresql enough, although OOo Base is slow on my computer because it uses Java and my computer is 5 years old... Paul
