[AG-TECH] Disappearing venue definitions?

[Ivan R. Judson]

Howdy Everyone,

Sorry to hear some of you have had venue losses. We're working on that right
now, I was unaware that it had happened to anyone. We'll get that fixed as
soon as possible.

Please do send email or file a bug report as soon as you have this happen so
we can figure out what needs to be fixed, we have not had this happen here
at ANL so were unaware of the problem.

Cheers,

--Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ursula Eisenblaetter
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:18 AM
> To: 'Randy Groves'
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Disappearing venue definitions?
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] Im Auftrag von Randy Groves
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 02:31
> > An: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Betreff: [AG-TECH] Disappearing venue definitions?
> > 
> > Has anyone else had this happen?  I've been running an AG 2.x Venue 
> > server for some time now.  I left it up over the holidays, 
> but didn't 
> > actually check on whether it was responsive or not.  When I 
> returned, 
> > I just assumed that it had gone to sleep, although it was still 
> > running (the BridgeServer was also up), so I restarted both.
> > 
> > Lo and behold, when I attempted to connect to my venues, I 
> find that 
> > they had all disappeared!  The venue server was back to 
> it's default 
> > initial state.  There was no 'backup' in the 
> VenueServer.dat.bak file 
> > - it was identical to the main .dat file.
> > 
> > This has happened before, and those times, I figured it was 
> something 
> > that I had done in fiddling with the configuration.
> >  But definitely NOT this time.  There is nothing that is obvious in 
> > the logs.
> > 
> > While my venue server is not enormous, re-entering is not a 
> huge pain, 
> > but a pain, nevertheless.
> > 
> > But this points up a fairly significant hole in the venue server 
> > workings - there is no way (that I know of) to back up the 
> server, and 
> > if that was available, of restoring it if it is trashed.  I presume 
> > that if a version of the .dat file was available, it would 
> be possible 
> > to manually restore the server, but I have not encountered the 
> > instructions for this process, if it exists.
> > 
> > Oh, and BTW - I'd check Bugzilla for something like this, 
> but it seems 
> > to be not answering its calls at the moment...
> > 
> > -randy
> 
> I have had the same problem. After my holidays VenueServer 
> and BridgeServers were still running. For another problem - 
> the machine has slowed down very much - I have rebooted the 
> machine. After that the VenueServer has lost its config and 
> were back in initial state.
> 
> Regards Ursula
>  
> Ursula Eisenblaetter                     
> Fraunhofer-Institut für Medienkommunikation IMK
> Competence Center NetMedia                       
> Schloss Birlinghoven                     
> D-53754 Sankt Augustin
>                     
> Tel:   + 49 2241/ 14 1935
> Fax:   + 49 2241/ 14 2597
> email: Eisenblaetter at imk.fraunhofer.de
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