We installed the 6.3.2 on our system and now the nature of our data
corruption has changed. It used to give us "BTP_CHAIN errors " message
but now it is doing a core dump. I have two questions.

1. Is there a way to check the status of the Index files to see if they
are OK and not corrupted? Since I did not know of anyway to test the
index files, We tried to start the system without reindexing and it
failed, yet after rendering, it works fine for almost a day. The
corruption happens almost after the pick hour everyday.
2. Do you know of a good way to read the Core Dump file? We have FreeBsd
Unix and I have tried to read the file with "gdb -c coredumpfile.core"
command, but it complains about the format of the file. Any clue?

Mon, 11 May 1998 08:39:44 -0700
AliE@atlas.com
Is there any way to check the status of the Index table.
AliE@atlas.com wrote:
> 
> We installed the 6.3.2 on our system and now the nature of our data
> corruption has changed. It used to give us "BTP_CHAIN errors " message
> but now it is doing a core dump. I have two questions.
> 
> 1. Is there a way to check the status of the Index files to see if they
> are OK and not corrupted? Since I did not know of anyway to test the
> index files, We tried to start the system without reindexing and it
> failed, yet after rendering, it works fine for almost a day. The
> corruption happens almost after the pick hour everyday.
> 2. Do you know of a good way to read the Core Dump file? We have FreeBsd
> Unix and I have tried to read the file with "gdb -c coredumpfile.core"
> command, but it complains about the format of the file. Any clue?

It also needs to know which executable produced the core file.  I
usually omit the -c, simply "gcc <executable> <core file>".

Hope this helps,

Ocie


Mon, 11 May 1998 13:54:26 -0700 (PDT)
ocie@paracel.com
Re: [HACKERS] Is there any way to check the status of the Index
 table.