[TriLUG] Disk check tools

[Jon Carnes]

Could this also be a time-out issue. I've seen this kind of problem
while working with very large databases in Mailman. Try making minor
mods one at a time.

Also, when does this company do it's back-ups?  Since they are 5 hours
ahead, you might be trying to work while the database is being backed up
(another problem I've run into in the real world).

Good Luck - Jon

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:55, Tarus Balog wrote:
> Gang:
> 
> I am doing a migration of OpenNMS for a company in the UK, remotely  
> via ssh.
> 
> They have a very large Postgres database. It seems to import just  
> fine, but then when I try to do something like a vacuum:
> 
> [root at localhost bin]# sudo -u postgres vacuumdb opennms
> vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "opennms" failed: ERROR:  invalid  
> page header in block 5074 of relation "events_nodeid_idx"
> 
> This seems to point to a disk error, from what I can find in Google.
> 
> What are good tools I can use to troubleshoot this? It's Fedora Core  
> for on i686.
> 
> -T
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