Subject Re: [ib-support] Log entry
Author Phil Shrimpton
On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:46, you wrote:

Hi,

> >--------
> > Error while trying to write to 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))
> >----------
> >
> My comment on this is that they haven't looked hard enough. It's an
> absolutely typical log message that you get when someone is trying to log
> in while a zip or other file-level copying process is going on.

99.99% sure that no other process is/was accessing the file

> Another place worth a look is where someone is using an external tool to
> access and copy the database. If their security isn't good enough, it
> could be happening from anywhere on their network

This is (hopefully) the most secure network in the UK, so if it is a security
problem, they have more things to worry about than a bit of DB corruption <g>

> OTOH, it could be something much more local, like the early throes of
> hard-drive death...

Could it also be down to a lack of disk space?

Phil
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