... and other problems.

This all started just after the first of the year. After stopping all
processes to do a tape backup of the database files, all daemons came
back up but when trying to start ovw I would get this message:

Error retrieving mapdb field info: Null field value

(I sent this to the list at the time, but it was when the list was dead
for awhile.)

I restored from backup and all seemed to work (including ovw) except
that now there are some submaps where objects will not go into the user
plane. Even containers - which should never have a problem with that.

I tried running db utility ovmapcount, and got (and still get) these
messages:
#ovmapcount -a
Loading maps from database.
Determing maps that might exist on other client machine.
Maps found on local server machine.
        No maps found.
Maps existing on client machines.

        default
Checking Symbol List fields.
Loading objects from database.
5745 objects in object database.
Checking OVW Maps Exists and OVW Maps Managed counts.
Processing non-local map .
Error: Could not open nonlocal ovmapdump file ""

There are no maps on client machines. There is only one map (default).

I have tried to delete the client map, but as it appears to have no
name, I can't find a way to do that. mapadmin returns:

#mapadmin -l
Map Name            Map State      Mapdb Timestamp
--------            ---------      ---------------
default              Invalid         944597446
#

I ran ovtopodump -A and much work was done, but it didn't improve the
situation.

Can you guide me toward a solution? (The most troublesome is objects not
going into the user plane).

-John

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John Grover                      |                   Operations Manager,
UNET, Technology Services        |   Senior Technical Support Specialist
University of Maine System       |                     JGrover AT Maine DOT edu
Computing Center                 |                 phone: (207) 581-3510
Orono, ME 04469                  |                   fax: (207) 581-3531