tooltalk problem

2007-12-25 10:27:00

sorry it took me so long to summarize. just got back from a business trip.

anyway, my original problem:

> System: UE 450, running solaris 2.6

>

> We had a system crash yesterday, and after rebooting most things

> seemed fine except for the fact that some of the users discovered that

> their desktop preferences (backgrounds, colors, etc.) weren't what

> they used to be. Some tried changing them, and logging out and back

> in, only to find that the preferences weren't changed. Further

> investigation revealed syslog messages of the form:

>

> ToolTalk/ISAM[xxxx]: Fatal error: read failed: requested 1024 bytes,

> got 0 - No such file or directory

>

> This message would be generated when one of the users in question logged in.

> running ttdbck yielded:

>

> ttdbck: isread("./TT_DB/property_table"): no current ISAM record

> ttdbck: no errors found.

>

> for affected users, and simply

>

> ttdbck: no errors found.

>

> for users who weren't affected.

>

> Any suggestions on where to go from here?

>

> Thanks

> Marc Poulin

Thanks to David Foster (foster@bial1.ucsd.edu) for the quick answer, namely:

| This happens when the tool-talk databases get corrupted. Each partition which

| has one of these databases will have a TT_DB directory at its root. The

| fix is to completely delete ALL of these directories (use find to locate

| them) using "rm -rf /dir/TT_DB.

|

| These will be recreated as needed; no need to stop/start anything, or reboot.

| Works like a charm.

thanks also to Stacy Lindberg and Bismark Espinoza for their

replies....

Marc Poulin

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