SQLGetPrivateProfileString failed with

Question

Typing the command: odbcinst -q -s on RHEL 6, I get the following error message:

odbcinst: SQLGetPrivateProfileString failed with .

All my

Answer 1

In my case (ubuntu 16.04) it was related to this bug, just not ~/.odbc.ini but /etc/odbc.ini. Adding a line to /etc/odbc.ini

[empty-sys]

fixed the problem.