Questions tagged [corruption]
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Filesystem to protect the storage medium
I'm working on an embedded system which will act as a server, the problem is the environment where it will run is so aggressive and it will suffer abrupt power interruptions. So I'm planning to mount ...
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Monitor Linux Server filesystem health and suspicious activities
I run my own, small server here. The server runs on Ubuntu 18.04. There is one single HDD using LVM on a partition together with EXT4. LVM is used for taking snapshots. I also use Webmin with ...
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Corrupt `reverse i-search` database: why and how?
I made a recording of this as it's never happened to me before and seemed pretty weird:
https://asciinema.org/a/qVSUzkIX2wLia7EzCFhCYHb9Q
Under which conditions would the bash completion database ...
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Are zero byte files an indication of file system corruption?
I recently noticed a strange behaviour. I could not restart a productive webserver running since more than a year because the configuration was invalid:
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Syntax error on ...
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Jenkins SVN checkout borks new files
I am running a Jenkins CI server which polls an SVN server and checks out the (Maven) project and builds it.
We have recently changed the build server and I set up Jenkins afresh with the few ...
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PHP fails to start sessions - disk corrupted?
In my Linux server, I can't login to my PHP application having an issue related to PHP sessions:
PHP Error Logs:
[Sat May 21 21:27:50 2011] [error] [client ] PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp/...
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advisability of taskkill to close an application
Before running backups on the data from an application I need to close it cleanly without risking an improper shutdown and data corruption in a Paradox Database.
How likely is that, if I use taskkill ...
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Windows XP IIS 5.1 MetaBase corrupted somehow, reinstalling doesn't help
Somehow my MetaBase.bin is corrupted on my Windows XP machine. I've attempted to uninstall and reinstall IIS numerous times. I did see the Reinstalling IIS on WinXP machine post here which I made sure ...
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My previous team member "replicated" a database on a server onto another server. But now it's not in sync anymore
Database 1 is a regular database server.
He replicated it to Database 2...a direct clone. Master-Master.
They are in "sync" all the time. They each have 40 million rows.
Today, Database 2 is "broken"...
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"Illegal characters in path (mscorlib)" when trying to Attach Database in SQL Server 2005
I am trying to Attach a database in SQL Server 2005, and get the following error:
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Illegal characters in path. (mscorlib)
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Program ...
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Corrupted characters when in BIOS menu
I'm experiencing hardware problems with one of my machines.
Ignoring the rest of the symptoms I was curious about one of them.
When I enter the BIOS, random characters are screwed up... as in, ...
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ubuntu 9 index corrupted
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9 and I am now getting this error:
Tracker applet
There was an error while performing indexing
Index corrupted.
I've tried re-indexing, but the problem still shows up. Does ...
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xfs_repair runs instantly, surely this should take some time to run?
I'm trying to troubleshoot some issues with multiple database engines crashing and logs suggesting corruption while reading from disk, so I'm running xfs_repair on a 2TB NVMe which contains the files.
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Any way to recover data from a corrupted RAID 6 array?
I have a pretty old RAID 6 array on MegaRAID 9361-8i / Windows (which has 16x 8TB HDDs). Recently, I found 2 HDDs were dead according to Megaraid Storage Manager, and replaced one of them with a new ...
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Very strange disk corruption error
I have a server, where I deleted a large file. Let's call it ~/tempfile.txt. Somehow, the deletion didn't work properly, and the disk got corrupted -- meaning, du -hs * doesn't show that file existing....
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Track down multiple Mailboxes associated with a single user after a currupted database
Server is Exchange 2013 CU 22 running on Server 2012 R2. Backstory is a drive holding one of the 5 databases ran out of space and corrupted the database. I was able to use exeutil.exe to fix the ...
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How to corrupt a file without changing attributes for integrity testing?
I'm trying to create a process for comparing two folders that should contain exactly the same files. Would like to be able to modify a file's content without changing the attributes as if the file was ...
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Database log file corruption in SQL Server 2005
I've been going through data corruption from last 2 days in row that .ldf getting corrupted and I've to fix it.
I did my research that I need new server and management studio because whatever we used ...
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Dell PowerEdge R720 - Corrupted RAID
Apologies in advance for the lengthy question.
We have a Dell PowerEdge R720 server with:
2 x 136GB SAS drives in RAID 1 for the OS (Ubuntu Server 12.04)
6 x 3TB SATA drives in RAID 5 for data
A ...
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MySQL MyISAM corrupt table, how to restore?
I have a MySQL MyISAM table that's corrupt. It first showed up in my mysql log as:
[ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table './mydb/mytable' is marked as crashed
and last (automatic?) repair failed
I then ...
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Windows Server 2008 repair logonui.exe
I'm fairly certain some data on my server got corrupted and from a dialog box that popped up I think one of the things that got corrupted is logonui.exe
I think this because while the server goes ...
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how to send a corrupt netbios packet
I want to send a corrupt netbios Session Service packet to my machine, My goal it to check whether my machine restarts or not upon receiving the corrupt netbios packet (this has happened before and I ...
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how safe are FS recovery operations?
I just needed to do a recovery of a vserver after a failed update.
Because the scope of the affected files wasn't exactly known, I completely restored most directories, except /home which was not ...
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NTFS error 55 after rebooting a Windows 2008 Web Server
This one really drives me around since a year or so:
Having a public Windows 2008 Web Server (behind a firewall) that runs perfectly smooth, I have lots of troubles when rebooting this server (e.g. ...
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MySQL table keeps corrupting, need a simple fail over solution?
One of my clients servers recently crashed at the planet, we got an automatic email from them that they had to do a hard reboot. Since then mysqld stops running occasionally and then shopping cart ...
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Corrupt Exchange 2007 Mail Box
We have a power user that we suspect has a corrupted MB (missing emails, etc.). To troubleshoot the issue further, we want to delete this user's Exchange MB, create a new one, associate it with his AD ...
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in MSSQL Server 2005 Dev Edition, I faced index corruption
When running stored procedures in MSSQL Server, I found it failed and the DBMS (MSSQL Server 2005 Dev Edition) notified that some indexes are corrupted.
Please advice me, here below is DBCC logs:
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PDF Corruption When Sending with Microsoft Products
I have the same PDF corruption problem in two different offices that I am the tech support for.
Office 1:
Started in the middle of December. PDF received from outside the office and is viewable with ...
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Windows 7 corrupting XP drive?
I have a user who recently installed Windows 7 rc (7100) on a seperate drive to his main XP drive - he did the installation with the XP drive unplugged and then once everything was set up re-connected ...
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corrupted syslog messages
on one of servers running 64bit debian lenny i can see from time to time corrupted kernel messages in syslog file.
they look ok in dmesg:
usb-storage: device found at 21
usb-storage: waiting for ...
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Is there any possible way for a VPN connection to result in corrupt file uploads?
Update w/actual answer: I selected the single answer below, because it encouraged looking deeper into actual machine, actual user, etc. The problem appears only in Microsoft Word files, and only for ...
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Dell Laptop randomly stops booting after ATA HD Upgrade
The standard laptop here is a Dell D600 with XP SP3, which came with an 80 GB drive originally. One of them was upgraded to a 160 GB internal drive. Ghost was used to transfer and expand the ...
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dd: failed to open ‘/disk1/boot1.img’: Structure needs cleaning
Executing this Command :
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/disk1/boot1.img
I got this Error :
dd: failed to open ‘/disk1/boot1.img’: Structure needs cleaning
I tried that Command on my centos machine and got that ...
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Erasure coding error detection ability
I would like to know in an (2+1) Erasure coding storage setup, can it detect corruption when one node is lost, and there is a silent data corruption from HDD on one of the remaining node.
I am ...
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Audit Log Partition keeps getting corrupted. How to prevent or boot anyway?
I am running RHEL7, and my audit log partition randomly (not often, but often enough to annoy me) gets corrupted, preventing me from booting. How can I either prevent the partition from being ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 VM Corrupted Javascript files when installing NPM packages
I'm experiencing something weird on Ubuntu server 20.04, Its virtual machine running on XCP-NG 8. I tried several versions of nodejs 14, 16, 18 but nothing solves the issue I can't even install nodejs ...
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Raid 10 Centos 7 failure after power cut suddenly
I have 1 server that using RAID 10 software. However, after recent power failure the server no longer can boot and stuck at grub rescue.
Using ls command for all device n the server does not detect ...
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Windows 10 1909 OS Corruption Preventing Further Updates
We have multiple computers on the domain which have corruption within the OS. This corruption prevents the install of updates or upgrades.
I know the computers which have issues from the results of ...
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weird filesystem behavior (corruption?)
Something very weird I came across, any thoughts would be much appreciated:
Some software (httrack) created a directory structure. Using my user (which also ran the software), I cannot view the ...
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List all files with corrupt filenames recursively
I've got a Linux server with some directories and files structure on it. Apparently somehow someone uploaded a bunch of filenames, which got corrupted. Consider the following example:
└── parent
├─...
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InnoDB recovery from datafiles
First of all, my MySQL DB and Linux skills are not so good. I spent several days searching for a solution and tried several approaches. The following approach is the one I came furthest with.
My SD ...
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Occasional output corruption on Nginx with PHP-FPM
I've got a PHP file generating a large amount of JSON (~1.5 MB) through an Nginx server and PHP-FPM, running on macOS.
Occasionally (about 2% of requests), the outputted JSON becomes corrupted. The ...
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Next step when DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS failes
I'm in a situation where a few Tables of a Database (MSSQL2016 - 13.0.5081.1)
are corrupted (selecting data failes at some point)
There is no valid backup available (the error seems to be present in ...
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What does it mean when 24 contiguous bytes in a file are corrupted? [duplicate]
I copied 500 MB of files from one hard drive to another and four files were found to be corrupted on the destination drive, each with one section that had 24 bytes different from the source.
What ...
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LVM - Should I encrypt physical volumes or logical volume?
I have two hard drives and I'm about to build a backup system. Now I'm wondering which solution would be the best.
I encrypt disk1 and disk2. After mounting these I create a volume group and logical ...
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ext4 corruption leading to unbootable disk. Partition is mountable, but grub detects unknown filesystem
I'm trying to recover from a system disk corruption issue without having to reinstall the OS, which would be super-painful currently.
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, the affected partition is ext4 and on a ...
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System File Corruption causing Freezing a KSOD
At present we are having some difficulties with one of our Terminal Servers. It is a VM Server 2012 (64bit)
What is happening at the moment is that random applications (IE, Chrome, Notepad, Word, ...
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Active Directory Corruption
We are looking at the topic of DR at the moment and I would like your expert help in the creation of a DR plan in the event that our Active Directory somehow becomes corrupt.
We have 4 domain ...
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File System is corrupt Windows Server 2012 R2
I keep recieveing an "The file system is corrupt" error on a new Dell powerEdge T430 Server running windows server 2012 r2. I am running in a RAID 5 config with 3 Kingston 960 GB Enterprise SSD's. I ...
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Percona slave crashes with "unexpected PLT reloc type"
I have 2 data centers each with a master/slave database running Percona server 5.5.23. For some reason, one of the slave databases crashed with this error:
03:00:40 UTC - mysqld got signal 11 ;
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