[543] in Moira
moira is better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Tue Jan 12 15:30:58 1993
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:30:33 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: cfyi@Athena.MIT.EDU, ops@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-moira@Athena.MIT.EDU, tlyu@Athena.MIT.EDU, jcchen@Athena.MIT.EDU,
I've found and fixed two database corruption problems in moira which
explain most of the problems seen in the last two days:
1) since about 2pm yesterday afternoon, many attempts to add a
remote address to a list or set a pobox to a foreign address would
fail with the error "Moira internal consistency failure"
2) there were a number of user accounts which could not be
modified; any attempt to manipulate them generated a similar error.
Both of these problems have been recified. If you continue to see
problems, please report them to bug-moira.
For those who are interested, they were both problems with duplicate
records. The first was the strings_id field in the numvalues table
being set incorrectly such that moira kept trying to reassign a
string_id already in use when a new string needed to be added. The
second problem was that the regtape program created a couple of
duplicate user entries.
-Mark
