[EMBOSS] Question regarding 'showdb' in EMBOSS

[Jean Mao]

Hi, I have a question hopefully someone could help me.

We have a very hetergenous system which are composed of different platforms. They can all access a shared area where I installed EMBOSS 4.0. The databases are sync'd from area A (both read and writable) to area B (Readable but not writable). When I run 'showdb' on platform A which access databases in area A, I can see the output just fine without any strange message. However, when I run 'showdb' on platform B can access databases in area B, I saw

% showdb
Displays information on the currently available databases
# Name         Type  ID  Qry All Comment
# ============ ==== ==  === === =======
  monthaa        P    OK  OK  OK  -
  monthnt        N    OK  OK  OK  -

EMBOSS An error in ajfile.c at line 1272: 
File close problem in fileClose

I tried:

% showdb -debug

But saw the same thing as above without extra information:

Displays information on the currently available databases
# Name         Type  ID  Qry All Comment
# ============ ==== ==  === === =======
monthaa        P    OK  OK  OK  -
monthnt        N    OK  OK  OK  -

   EMBOSS An error in ajfile.c at line 1272:
File close problem in fileClose


I am not sure why I see this error although the databases were listed just fine. The only thing I can think of is that the databases are located differently. Both .embossrc file and emboss.default file are located in shared area. Could someone give me some hint where this error might come from?

Thank you very much!

Jean