Re: db could not be found or opened

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45605
interpreted = N
texte = on 21/11/02 4:16 pm, Cristián Tapia at ctapia@lemongroup.cl wrote:> Hi, I hope someone can give me a clue on this problem: > > Since yesterday I am getting the message the db=/db/name.db could not be > found or opened on some of my websites (not all). Some sites works fine > (curiously the ones with more traffic), but others cannot open their > databases (even small ones that are about 6k). > > When this problem occurs, I cannot even access the administration pages, > or perform any command that requires authentication (flush templates or > flush databases for example) because my username and password are not > recognized. I think this happens because the users.db cannot be opened > either. > > The problem started yesterday morning and I first thought it was a > normal situation generated because I haven't restarted the server since > I did the upgrade to version 4.5 (6 months ago) and more than 70.000 pages > per day are served from it. > > Everything worked fine after the restart... until this morning. The same > sites are affected, the same db's cannot be opened. > > I was very happy with the performance of version 4.5 until yesterday. > Anyone has experienced this? > > Thanks a lot for helping. > Regards,What platform are you running?I had a similar problem a while ago, and discovered that it was a memory issue. (a 512K DIMM had come loose, leaving the server with not enough memory to open the .db file)------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: db could not be found or opened (Mark Derrick 2002)
  2. db could not be found or opened (ctapia@lemongroup.cl (Cristián Tapia) 2002)
on 21/11/02 4:16 pm, Cristián Tapia at ctapia@lemongroup.cl wrote:> Hi, I hope someone can give me a clue on this problem: > > Since yesterday I am getting the message the db=/db/name.db could not be > found or opened on some of my websites (not all). Some sites works fine > (curiously the ones with more traffic), but others cannot open their > databases (even small ones that are about 6k). > > When this problem occurs, I cannot even access the administration pages, > or perform any command that requires authentication (flush templates or > flush databases for example) because my username and password are not > recognized. I think this happens because the users.db cannot be opened > either. > > The problem started yesterday morning and I first thought it was a > normal situation generated because I haven't restarted the server since > I did the upgrade to version 4.5 (6 months ago) and more than 70.000 pages > per day are served from it. > > Everything worked fine after the restart... until this morning. The same > sites are affected, the same db's cannot be opened. > > I was very happy with the performance of version 4.5 until yesterday. > Anyone has experienced this? > > Thanks a lot for helping. > Regards,What platform are you running?I had a similar problem a while ago, and discovered that it was a memory issue. (a 512K DIMM had come loose, leaving the server with not enough memory to open the .db file)------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Mark Derrick

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