Re: Error in Online log: bfcheck

In article <z6z8QEA39tVyEwsT@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes >In article <FzUO7BAtD6UyEwTf@misslink.demon.co.uk>, Simon Ellison-Bunce ><simonb@misslink.demon.co.uk> writes >>A few days ago we started getting some error messages in our Online log >>file that we've not seen before. They don't look good, but everything is >>still running (so far!). Can anyone shed light on what this means? >> >>bfcheck: bad page: pg_flags 0 != type 2, userp = 8040210c, pid = 9192, >>uid = 357 >><Then some dump data> >>-- WARNING: Fail Consistency Check -- pthdrpage:ptalloc:bad partn page - >>- pid = 9192 user=357 us=8040210c >> >>This is Online v5 on SCO 3.2v4.2. >> >>We have reloaded the database after reinitialising the disk, but the >>errors are still occuring. >> > > You have a corrupt database. It sounds like something is overlapping >the database E.g. a filesystem overlapping the same area of disk that >Online is using. > > Run the following command to check you database is now OK:- > > tbcheck -cr > tbcheck -ce > tbcheck -cc <database name> > tbcheck -cID <database name> I'm virtually certain we don't have a problem with disk allocation. tbcheck -cr, tbcheck -ce and tbcheck -cc don't give any sign of anything wrong. If I run tbcheck -cID <dbname> then tbcheck dies before completing with an OS Memory fault error, and a Process Terminated Abnormally message is written to the Online log. However, if I run tbcheck against each table in the database individually, then it runs happily and no problems are reported. Any more ideas? -- Simon Ellison-Bunce