| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird Database Corruption to Hellen |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2004-10-05T14:22:26Z |
At 01:45 PM 5/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:
write; or that you had forced writes off and lost power to the
server. Really, it's an unknown as to what impact the lost links would
have. This is not a happy condition.
What *exact* versions of everything are you using? (server, client, OS, CPU
settings)?
pointer page #839, which is pointing to three non-existent pages. But I
have serious fears about the state of your hard disk. It looks like a
problem for Ann Harrison.
the pointer page could be pointing to an area of disk that has been
physically damaged, e.g. by a power surge, or by the disk being in a dying
state.
but I'm not the one with the ability to reconstruct/retrieve anything that
exhibits "past end of file" messages. Contact Ann (see
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_contact) for this
kind of task.
./heLen
>Hi, Helen!Hmm, no, I don't think so. It appears you ran out of disk space during a
>
>Thanks for your help, but with the instructins you sent me, gbak
>doesn't work, it says "end of file..".. something like that. Sorry,
>but the information is returned in Portuguese, my native language,
>as "Final de arquivo alcançado"
>
>Running IBFirstAid Diagnostician, it returns a lot of lines like
>these ones:
>
>05/10/2004 10:36:57 ERROR: Error on pointer page #839: wrong data
>page link over the end of file 4411
>05/10/2004 10:36:57 ERROR: Error on pointer page #839: wrong data
>page link over the end of file 4412
>05/10/2004 10:36:57 ERROR: Error on pointer page #839: wrong data
>page link over the end of file 4413
>
>As I can see, I need to buy IBFirstAid Ambulance to go on..
write; or that you had forced writes off and lost power to the
server. Really, it's an unknown as to what impact the lost links would
have. This is not a happy condition.
What *exact* versions of everything are you using? (server, client, OS, CPU
settings)?
>I can see the pages which are wrong, how do I correct them?You couldn't correct them. The best you could hope for is to get rid of
pointer page #839, which is pointing to three non-existent pages. But I
have serious fears about the state of your hard disk. It looks like a
problem for Ann Harrison.
>Please, help me.. I need this database working. What do you suggest?If the database is small and exhausted disk space is not the issue, then
>This database is very small.. a gbk in a zip are just a couple of MB.
the pointer page could be pointing to an area of disk that has been
physically damaged, e.g. by a power surge, or by the disk being in a dying
state.
>You can contact me on msn: giovanibettiol@..., if you wantI'm part of a group that fixes broken databases as a professional service,
>to.
but I'm not the one with the ability to reconstruct/retrieve anything that
exhibits "past end of file" messages. Contact Ann (see
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_contact) for this
kind of task.
./heLen