Ack! Help! Key & Segment mismatch, and filepro reporting no space on the device... RESOLVED

[Silas Martinez]

> Try setting PFNODF=ON.  Put in the config table.  This will disable the
> attempt of expand to figure out the size of the drive.
>

export PFNODF=ON;

Did it. Yay! A simple expand then corrected the issue, and we're back
in business without having to revert to a backup.

Thanks for your help, Nancy. Mark, just saw your reply. Like I said,
under Debian in the bash shell, I can just export, but basically did
what you suggested, and things are running again.

Thanks mucho!!!!

On 12/29/05, Nancy Palmquist <nlp at vss3.com> wrote:
> Silas Martinez wrote:
> > Filepro 5.0.14 on Debian.
> >
> > Not sure what happened, I assume power dropped while someone was in
> > update mode, and we ended up with a key& segment mismatch. Typically,
> > we can go into expand files and expand the affected file by one
> > record, and correct the problem. however, now, when we go to do that,
> > Expand Files reports room for 0 more records.
> >
> > df reports plenty of space on the partition, and I can create new text
> > files without problem.
> >
> > I've never seen this before - help, please!
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> Silas,
>
> Try setting PFNODF=ON.  Put in the config table.  This will disable the
> attempt of expand to figure out the size of the drive.
>
> The drive sizes have expanded past the logic that tries to figure the
> size.  The next update is supposed to fix this but alas we don't have
> that yet.
>
> Hope this works for you.
>
> Nancy
>
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