Re: [Exist-open] 2.2-:develop-15c5a27-20141116 suddenly keeps shutting down database

[Dannes W. <da...@ex...>]

Hi Brad,

> On 3 Apr 2017, at 14:27 , Brad Clements <bk...@mu...> wrote:
> 
> We've been running eXist 2.2-:develop-15c5a27-20141116 for 2 couple of 
> years on Ubuntu 14.04 on Java 1.7.0_121 64Bit without problems.
> 
> This weekend I edited conf.xml and adjusted the consistency-check 
> settings to change when full and incrementals are done.
> 
> I restarted eXist and went home thinking all was well. but now I find 
> this morning that it's not actually working at all.
> 
> It seems to be putting the database into readonly mode but I cannot find 
> out why.


> But we have plenty of space


I remember that we have been using an unreliable API to probe the available diskspace. We changed this since then and the problems have gone. I thought only windows server were affected though. On http://exist-open.markmail.org <http://exist-open.markmail.org/> I can’t find the relevant mail thread though….




> 2017-04-03 08:15:31,253 [eXistThread-35] WARN (TransactionManager.java 
> [execute]:164) - Failed to create transaction. Error writing to log file.
> 
> I have rebooted the server and it's not coming up with fsck errors, so I 
> am pretty confused why it's failing to write to disk.
> 
> The java process runs as root, most files are owned by a regular user.. 
> I don't recall a 'run as' userid setting anywhere.
> 

Only when running via the service wrapper it is possible to set a user-id.

I am not yet sure what to suggest to continue….

sorry

D.