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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=609190921-20112006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks for the information Bruce, I'll try that next time I
see these symptoms (hopefully never again). Dave Wilson also mentioned in
the MapGuide Enterprise discussion group that if the files under Site are
deleted, then server will re-create them when started. I tested this and
it worked. You will end up losing any users and groups you setup (and I'm
sure other things, but I don't know exactly what), but I was pleasantly
surprised to see that resource service paths were not effected (my repository is
not in the default location).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Tahoma size=1>Andy </FONT></SPAN>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Bruce Dechant
[mailto:bruce.dechant@autodesk.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 20, 2006
1:08 PM<BR><B>To:</B> users@mapguide.osgeo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
[mapguide-users] Site corrupt - MG Server fails to start<BR></FONT><BR></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The files might not
actually be corrupt, but may have not been closed properly (example: due to
power outage). When the server starts it tries to “clean up” the repositories
using the generated log files. Under certain circumstances this can take longer
then the Windows Service Control Manager allows for a service starting up. The
thing to do in this case is to not run the server as a service and instead run
it interactively as an application to give the server time to cleanup the
repository. Once the repository has been cleaned up you can stop the server
application and restart it as a service. Note: that you should not have to do
this under normal operating conditions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Jason
Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch@nanaimo.ca] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> November 18, 2006 9:41 PM<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">users@mapguide.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [mapguide-users] Site corrupt
- MG Server fails to start</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Good cautionary tale.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If anyone is not backing up their repositories, they
should strongly consider it. I haven't seen any problems
yet, but the repositories are file-based and are subject to corruption in the
case of interrupted writes, etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">There is a RepositoryAdmin directory in the Server
installation that contains some utilities for doing this, and
instructions. You can find a copy of the
isntructions here:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="https://mapguide.osgeo.org/source/browse/*checkout*/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Server/RepositoryAdmin/MgOpenSourceRepositoryAdmin.pdf">https://mapguide.osgeo.org/source/browse/*checkout*/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Server/RepositoryAdmin/MgOpenSourceRepositoryAdmin.pdf</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hmm. It would be nice if we could leverage an
RDBMS data store to store the repository info. This would kinda break the
managed data idea, but it would eliminate the load balancing problems around
session access. I don't really like storing my data with the site
configuration info anyway :)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jason<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Andy
Morsell<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sat 2006-11-18
12:14 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">users@mapguide.osgeo.org</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [mapguide-users] Site corrupt - MG
Server fails to start</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I
have no idea how this happened, but it is rather disconcerting. Luckily it was
only the Site data that was a problem and that my Library seems to be fine.
Otherwise I would be reaching into my backups to restore
from.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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