On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:27 AM, mark.ruys <mark.ruys@...> wrote:

>
>
> Every night I run nbackup to dump a database in order to get streamed to
> tape. Recently we loaded a new database using gbak and since then, nbackup
> often gives me the following error:
>
> Fatal lock manager error: invalid lock id (226944), errno: 22
> --Invalid argument
>
> I raised the following vars to no avail (doubling there values):
> LockSemCount = 64
> LockHashSlots = 2011
>
> So my questions are:
> - what could explain the invalid lock error?
> - how to debug/analyse it (any handy tools/tricks)?
> - how to prevent/fix it?
>
> Config:
> CentOS 5.5
> firebird-filesystem-2.1.3.18185.0-2.el5
> firebird-libfbembed-2.1.3.18185.0-2.el5
> firebird-2.1.3.18185.0-2.el5
> firebird-libfbclient-2.1.3.18185.0-2.el5
> firebird-classic-2.1.3.18185.0-2.el5
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
> _
>

Mark,

Have a look at http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/nbackup-lock-unlock.html and
see if this helps.

Tom Clarke.

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