7.5.0.38 autolog not working as expected

Hello,
in the last 4 days we have the strange situation that the autolog functionality is not working and the log devspace gets filled up.
"Normal" behaviour is, that every 10min a log backup is being created and copied to a second server. But in the last 4 days we have the situation (once a day) that this doesn't work and the log-devspace gets filled up.
Even a log backup doesn't solve the situation.
The only "solution" is restarting the database, which isn't a nice "solution" for a productive system.....
Today we restarted the database at 02:13pm. In the dbm.-files there are no error messages regarding the 10min-interval-creation of autologs, but we had to restart the db since the log devspace got filled up to 80% ?!?!
The dbm.utl/dbm.prt files show entries every 10min. for creating the autolog file, but in reality it didn't have been written..
What else can we check to get closer to the source of this problem ?
I can only think of a long running transaction which can cause such a situation, but we have no long running....?!?!
What exactly can we check if we're running in such a situation again ?
many thanks in advance...GERD...
2009-11-23 13:56:51 0x00002d59              0 DBM      command autolog_on
2009-11-23 14:06:56 0x00007bff              0 DBM      command autolog_off
2009-11-23 14:07:01 0x000001d7              0 DBM      command backup_start auto
2009-11-23 14:07:02 0x00000260              0 DBM      command autolog_on
2009-11-23 14:08:03 0x00007a82              0 DBM      command db_offline
2009-11-23 14:13:07 0x00007a82              0 DBM      command db_online
2009-11-23 14:17:59 0x00001f20              0 DBM      command autolog_off
2009-11-23 14:18:04 0x0000243a              0 DBM      command backup_start auto
2009-11-23 14:18:05 0x00002521              0 DBM      command autolog_on
2009-11-23 14:28:10 0x00004593              0 DBM      command autolog_off
2009-11-23 14:28:15 0x0000498b              0 DBM      command backup_start auto
2009-11-23 14:28:16 0x00004a21              0 DBM      command autolog_on
2009-11-23 14:38:27 0x000074a5              0 DBM      command autolog_off
2009-11-23 14:38:32 0x00007801              0 DBM      command backup_start auto
2009-11-23 14:38:33 0x0000788a              0 DBM      command autolog_on

Hello Lars,
we're using an external tool to create the autologs (called DBShadow). We configured it to run every 10min.
In the knldiag files there's no entry with exception or failure of writing logs.
The entries in the backup history look "normal", looks like the autolog has been written..?!?!
4B0A782102A2|LOG_000132803|SAVE WARM|2009-11-23 12:44:57|2009-11-23 12:55:13|2009-11-23 12:55:13|2009-11-23 12:55:13|2363383738|2363457829|
   |auto                                                            |      4240|         1|         0|
   |
4B0A7A8902A5|LOG_000132804|SAVE WARM|2009-11-23 12:55:13|2009-11-23 13:05:29|2009-11-23 13:05:29|2009-11-23 13:05:29|2363457830|2363542607|
   |auto                                                            |      5000|         1|         0|
   |
4B0A7CF202A8|LOG_000132805|SAVE WARM|2009-11-23 13:05:29|2009-11-23 13:15:46|2009-11-23 13:15:46|2009-11-23 13:15:47|2363542608|2363632884|
   |auto                                                            |      5320|         1|         0|
   |
4B0A7F5C02AB|LOG_000132806|SAVE WARM|2009-11-23 13:15:47|2009-11-23 13:26:04|2009-11-23 13:26:04|2009-11-23 13:26:04|2363632885|2363722311|
   |auto                                                            |      5392|         1|         0|
   |
4B0A81C602AE|LOG_000132807|SAVE WARM|2009-11-23 13:26:04|2009-11-23 13:36:22|2009-11-23 13:36:22|2009-11-23 13:36:22|2363722312|2363805509|
   |auto                                                            |      4936|         1|         0|
Regarding your hint with installing the latest patches I wanted to ask what is the latest 7.5 version and where to get it ?
In the sdn download area there's only MaxDB starting with 7.6 and download sites from mysql offers only 7.5.0.38 as 64bit-rpm packages...
regards...GERD...
BTW: our .knl-file has a size of > 35MB and the DBM-Gui cannot display it Is it possible to modifiy this file in an editor (remove entries), since it's only plain ascii...?

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Start from the Mac OS X Install Disc, choose Terminal from the Utilities menu and test the keys which were previously not working. If the keys work while started from the Install disc, then the keyboard itself is working correctly. Use How to troubleshoot a software issue to isolate the software issue that may be causing the keys to not respond.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Application.addEventListener not working as expected

I wanted to add a global KEY_DOWN event listener and
MOUSE_CLICK event listener to my app. The help files say to use the
application.addEventListener(type, handler) to do this. I added the
listeners in my creationComplete function but they do not work for
windows I popup. I know these windows are in the application scope
because I am setting application level model attributes in them
that the main window uses. Why are these events not registering
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laurent demaret wrote:
But I can also use application:openFile: that works too.
No, you can't. The Apple Event "open files" will open one or more files. That is why the documentation says to use "application:openFiles:".
And it is present as well in the application delegate protocol reference nearby application:openFiles: and application:openTempFile: all in the "Opening Files" tasks group.
Why is one called in addition and not the other ? Is application:openTempFile: usage left to the reader guess?
They are delegate messages. Their only reason for existence is for the programmer to use as he or she sees fit. In one specific example, the Apple event "open files", one of these delegate methods is the recommended way to handle the "open files" Apple Event.
I did not found other answer in the Xcode documentation than the "How Cocoa Applications Handle Apple Events" paragraph of the Cocoa Scripting Guide OS (which is back to 10.4 as you noticed it) that advise to use application:openFiles: which brings me back to the other methods for opening files, some working, some not..
I'm not used to such a fluzziness in the documentation.
You are not used to the delegate pattern. This API has been in existence for 25 years across several, radically different, architectures. There is a lot of legacy there. If the documentation says to use method A and you discove that method B works too, you should switch to method A. There is no guarantee that method B will continue to work in the future. You have already discovered this as you keep trying to use techniques from 1991. Please, just use the recommended method. You have nothing to gain by trying other methods that have similar-sounding names and are described nearby to other methods in the documentation.

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I am using the French localisation of Leopard. Using Application switcher (ie Cmd-Tab) I was able on Tiger to quit a running app by pressing A (an oddity due to the AZERTY / QWERTY differences). This does not work any more and I cannot quit an application from Application switcher. Any advice?

Cool. Learn a new trick every day... It works on my English keyboard (with the Q).
Maybe the "oddity" has been fixed and it is no longer A on the French keyboard, but Q, as it should be.

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