Subject: Re: Serious Problems
From: Michael Paesold (paesold@sein.at)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 06:24:22 EDT
Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanm@aon.at> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0200, Michael Paesold wrote:
> >
> > 1) It appears that sometimes documents stored on the server (especially
> > saved on the server) get corrupted in some way: with some files copied
back
> > to the mac, norton disk doctor (5.0) reports major problems, that can
only
> > be corrected by replacing the files with original ones. (But where to
take
> > originals from ?? :( )
>
> From the backup :) I can't recall that this kind of thing has
> been reported. Also, if possible, can you be more specific (what
> kind of files or all kinds, any messages in logs, etc)?
The backup is done on the server, so the backuped files are corrupted, too.
The
only solution is to open the files with the app and save them to a new file.
This thing mostly happens with qxp.
> > 2) There are often problems with files, that can be opened with an app
(e.g.
> > quark xpress), can be saved, can be copied or moved on the server, but
when
> > you try to copy them to the macintosh, the operation will be canceled
with
> > error number -39.
>
> Some apps (qxp is one I think) keep files locked even after
> closing them. Did you try to exit from the application and then
> do the copy? I can't recall that people have had this problem.
Last night I restarted netatalk services, and the macs where
shutdown/restarted.
I tried to change permissions and to touch the file from shell (also the
corresponding .AppleDouble/* files). No result.
>From <http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n9805>:
-39 eofErr End of file; no additional data in the format
> The Trash application needs some fiddling in order to get it to
> work. It also depends on the netatalk's version. However, I'd
> suggest that your users stay away from it, if possible.
But how to delete files?
> I believe that there are many people still using successfully
> netatalk 2.1.3, but I'd suggest moving to version 2.1.4-37b. It's
> a prerelease but pretty stable. This one you'll have to compile
> by yourself. Check out the archive--there are many messages with
> instructions and, after all, it's not difficult to do it. If you
> don't run any database apps (or similar which need byte-level
> locking) then compile with -DUSE_FLOCK_LOCKS (put the def in
> sys/linux/Makefile).
I'm thinking about that, but before I start to do it, I want to find
out more about possible error sources.
> Another thing: many problems are bound to a particular application
> running on the Mac. The most notorious is definitely QXP. It
> would be helpful if you include information about this as well.
> And anything reported through syslog.
The workflow heavily depends on Quark XPress. So this could be
a main source of some of the problems.
Greetings,
Michael
-- Michael Paesold mailto:paesold@sein.at Vienna, Austria, Europe
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