At 04:31 AM 22-04-02 +0000, you wrote:

>The following is the log entry of the error I get when running a long
>procedure.
>
>Error Log Entry
>
>CHAPPS (Server) Sun Apr 21 22:02:40 2002
> Database: E:\APPS\CAMALOT\DATAFI~1\CAMALOT.GDB
> I/O error for file "E:\APPS\CAMALOT\DATAFI~1\CAMALOT.GDB"
> Error while trying to read from file
> The process cannot access the file because
>
>another process has locked a portion of the file.
>
>
> internal gds software consistency check (error during savepoint
> backout
>(290))
>
>
>Any idea what is causing this?

At a guess, someone is running a system backup or other OS-level file
process (e.g. zipping it, copying it, maybe even trying to overwrite it)
whilst users are logged in to the database. Is the server running on XP by
any chance? If so, is there any information about how SystemRestore is set up?
---H

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