Re: System tables being trashed.

billy@west.co.za ("Billy Wheeler") wrote: :On 11 Apr 97 at 16:54, Sean Birkhead wrote: : :> We are running SE 5.03 on SCO Openserver 5.0.0 :> using DPT disk controllers and RAID 0 implemented by the :> disk controller. :> On a regular basis system table index files are being so badly :> corrupted that even bcheck cannot repair them and they must be :> restored from a backup. :> Tables being corrupted are for example : :> systriggers, sysconstraints, sysdefaults. :> :> Has anybody experienced this before?? :> What was the cause / solution ?? : :Sean, : :I've almost alsways found this to stem from a hardware failure (I :know it sounds unlikely in your case). Yes, except if you are realy on version 5.0.0 of SCO. You then need some patches, particularly the one that upgrades you to 5.0.0d. There are several patches that you might be able to find via www.sco.com or ftp.sco.com Your supplier of the SCO OS is the place you realy ought to get the necessary pathces. As with any other OS there are new patches coming out every so often. Sometimes they must be applied, sometimes they should, and some are only for very spesific cases. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org