[Dxspider-support] some sort of new lockout problem

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Wed May 30 16:50:50 BST 2001


On 30 May 2001 17:31:04 +0200, Aurelio -PA3EZL- wrote:
> Hello ,
> 
> I'm sending this mail on behalf of Charlie-K1XX who cannot send e-mail in
> this moment
> 
> ===
> A new problem has now shown its ugly face.  Some short period of time after
> a restart, the W1HR node "forgets" who users are!  If I attempt to login as
> k1xx-6, the node greets me as if I were an entirely new user.  It also
> happens when other nodes attempt to connect to me.  They also are greeted as
> a new user.  Plus, my outgoing connects fail.
> If I restart the s/w, all is back to the original cond
> Over some period of time (seemingly hours at most), the condition reoccurs.
> Unfortunately, I am traveling so it's difficult to do a lot of
> troubleshooting.  There is an indication that the problem may be associated
> with the new lockout code.

Hum...

How/why is the node being restarted?

Specifically are you shutting it down using the 'shutdown' cluster
command or is it crashing or having ^C done on it?

It may worthwhile recreating the user file from the ascii version which
is produced every weekend. You can also produce a new one on demand by
using the 'export_user' command.  

To recreate the userfile:-

1. shut the node down.
2. cd c:\spider\data (/spider/data)
3. perl user_asc
4. restart the node.

There is a problem with DB_File (the 'binary' form of the user file)
which means that it must be closed cleanly in order for it to work
correctly - I go to a _GREAT_ deal of trouble to make sure this happens.

Also on older versions of DB_File, it was too easy to create duplicate
entries. 

Either of these problems may exist on the Windows versions. The only
cure is to edit the 'user_asc' file, removing duplicate entries that
aren't what you want and then doing the user file recreate procedure
above.

I haven't seen this problem however for at least a year and AFAIK nobody
else is experiencing it (says he putting tin hat firmly on head).

Dirk





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