Directory corrupted cvfsck crashes

G5 Xsan RAID etc - power failure while deleting some files - when the system came back up it wouldn't mount the Xsan Volume - I tried cvfsk to repair and after a long list of repairable errors it goes into an infinite loop trying to delete a damaged inode:
"Directory entry ... is an orphan. Removed."
then
"Error: Cannot remove lookup .... entry from inode 0x2faddf2324
These two lines repeat until cvfsck runs out of memory and crashes with a bus error
Unfortunately none of the repairs listed to that point get written back to the disk so it's no safe to use.
Help!

I have never seen cvfsck do something usefull, when data goes corrupt you're toasted and need to reformat the whole volume!!!
nice isn't it?
That's why it is called a none managed cluster filesystem, when you want a managed clusterfilesystem you have to pay a lot more...

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Question on Directory corruption

Hello,
I posted last week about my system wide crash on my PM G5. I took it to the Apple store and they diagnosed it as a fried processor. The liquid cooling had also ruptured leaking into the unit. They replaced the processor and I picked up the computer last night. I booted out of my external drive and repaired permissions on my Macintosh HD. I also verified the disk and there were no errors detected. The problem I am having is my spotlight does not seek out the files when rendering the search. For example, I searched for "system profiler" and spotlight did not show the application in its result. When I manualy opened system profiler, then spotlight was able to find it on a subsequent search. This seems to be a consistent thing with alot of program files (it won't find them until I open the file ahead of time). Otherwise, the computer is behaving ok. Does this seem to be a directory corruption of some kind??
What is the BEST way to deal with this?
Should I purchase Disk Warrior and use it. Is that just a quick fix or a permanent one?
Should I back up my data and wipe my hard drive and re-install? I don't want to have to manually reinstall my third party applications one by one. Is there an efficient way around this??
thanks for all your advice and I PROMISE I will (as I do always) grant points for helpful and solved questions
RezF
PM G5 Tiger 10.4.9

Delete the Spotlight Index files and rebuild.
I use Tiger Cache Cleaner. But a search will offer more utilities.
http://www.macupdate.com
You don't have Disk Warrior?? shame
That and two backups (backups first, DW4 next).
Disk Utility does not find every and all errors or problems.
Add Applejack to your list of tools, too. Deleting the cache files with it improves performance and eliminates some headaches.
I probably would have erased my hard drive and done a restore from cloned backups. I repair a disk first, never bother to verify, and then run "repair" permissions.
The Mac's Finder has a real case of amnesia and deferred updating. Something that TCC can help cure by forcing the Finder to be more pro-active. Faster disk drives, more memory for caching, keeping your drives in good health.

Directory corrupted again & again

I'm having a recurring problem with directories becoming fragmented/corrupted on my old computer.
B&W G3, OS9.2.1, 896ram, 2 HD: 80G & 60G. Processor upgraded to 1GHz (PowerLogix hardware).
Original factory HD has been replaced a few months ago. Slave drive is less than 2 yrs old.
I have been using Disk Warrior to repair directories as they occasionally become fragmented. The alerts from DW, or alerts from the finder are becoming more frequent. Sometimes an app will crash/quit and I'll receive alerts re directory corrupted, or various references to file structures, trees, etc. are damaged. Restart from other volume (partition) or DW cd, run DW & aok.
But why is this occurring so frequently?
Controller card on disk going bad? Not likely, my guess, because another volume on slave drive is sometimes corrupted.
Faster processor causing problem? I was running a 900MHz proc, and had no problems. New processor going bad (early failure)?
My suspicions are system-related files, but which ones?
This is getting out of hand, I'm spending too much valuable time rebuilding directories.
Please help, this has got to stop.
Greg
G5 dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2G ram, 80G & 160G HD's

Gmusic
While not claiming to have the definitive answer to your query, there are some observations that I can make.
Your configuration seems to be one that you have chosen for audio or video recording/editing. I sympathize with your desire for a responsive setup for that purpose, but I wonder whether you have pushed the whole just that iota beyond its intrinsic capabilities. My Beige G3 has a 400MHz processor, giving a 12x multiplier of the system bus. It has max. RAM (768MB) and two drives of 6GB and 40GB. It is supported by OS 9.2.2. With Spark 2.6 (wave editor) it is quite comfortable. Because there is another Mac with OS 10.2.8 and Spark 2.82, I push the Beige no further for the moment.
I suggest that you update to OS 9.2.2 to begin with, and go over the specification, quality and match of your RAM. I should also remove it, clean the contacts (along, not across) with a soft pencil eraser, and then blow off the detritus and clean the slots with canned air. You are operating your RAM under pressure (metaphorically speaking), and need to be assured that it can withstand the assault.
Even though the chief virtue of 9.2.x is to work with OS X in Classic Mode, there is also better stability as a standalone from 9.2.2 than from 9.2.1. If the foregoing does not improve matters, then, to the extent possible, revert to the prior state of each recent upgrade, one at a time and in the order most recent to least recent. As a reversion appears to reestablish the stability that you had or wish for, you can consider the upgrade as a potential cause of the present difficulty.
In the interests of a leaner and tighter System, there may also be some virtue in having an alternative configuration in Extensions Manager with the superfluous components disabled during your specialized work. Editing, burning to optical disk and so on are patently of continuing interest, but silly voice management may not be integral to your work, and there are many more potential candidates.
Apple IIe; 68K: 11DT + 4PB; PPC: 5DT + 3PB; G3: 6DT System 6.0.8 to OS 10.4.x

Drobo failure & Directory corruption

Reporting my experience with a Drobo failure and great support from Alsoft DiskWarrior :
My Drobo failed. Not a hardware failure, but a corruption in the directory that prevented my disk to mount...
According to Drobo support, everything was "ok" on their side.
According to me, I had lost access to almost 3TB of data !
This was the second time a directory corruption happened to me on one of my Drobo (I've never experienced this on any other type of drive in 15 years... but according to Drobo support, it could happen to anyone...) . Therefore I was already equipped with the excellent "DiskWarrior" from Alsoft, which had already saved me once.
I was not so lucky this time : an error in Alsoft prevented the Directory to be rebuilt.
I contacted Alsoft support and I was really impressed by the service ! Marc from Alsoft took the time to remotely connect to my machine and do his magic, manually retrieving, fixing and mounting the corrupted directory. Helping me retrieve almost 2TB of data.
A couple of lessons :
- be paranoid with backups : this Drobo was storing archives of backups... I was anxious to retrieve the data, but nothing bad happened because of this failure.
- don't trust advertising : Drobo would claim that you cannot loose data. I did...
- don't name your files with generic names : when the directory structure is corrupted, and you have to manually retrieve files, you're much better off with "backup_project_20110823.gzip", than with hundreds of "backup.gzip" files and no folder to know what they are !
- when things go bad use DiskWarrior ! The software is great and the service is incredible !
A couple of questions :
- are serious directory corruptions common on non-drobo hard drives ?
- what's the best method to prevent them (hard unplug/power failures being the cause I know about). I am considering re-activating Tech Tool protection - but it's soooo slow.
- what alternatives to drobo would you recommend for archiving data ?

I started lots of corruption issues with my Drobo the same day I upgraded to OS X 10.8. See my discussion thread below.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20518529#20518529
I logged a case with Drobo Support and they told me I was the only one having such issues.
Alvin

IMovie project corrupt after crash?

I have a problem with a seemingly corrupt iMovie project
I have been working on a holiday movie for over 12 hours
Today, my macbook pro crashed while editing the project
Aftwards I was unable to load the project.
Other, older projects can still be loaded with iMovie.
I suspect the project has been corrupted due to the crash.
I don't have any back-ups (Time Machine is not activated)
Are there any other ways to fix the corrupted file or is it permanently damaged and won't I be able to open it again?
Thanks for your help and insights!

I'm new to iMovie, and to the Mac, and for years I have heard about how wonderful the Mac is. While it doesn't have the same problems as a PC it has plenty of its own problems.
I just spent 20 straight hours putting together a movie in iMovie. As I clicked to make my very last tweak to my project, iMovie crashed.
I tried to get a hold of Apple support but their system doesn't allow access to an actual human being. Their system make you go through a series of steps to "arrange for a phone call from Apple". That system fails EVERY TIME. I get to the end and a messages pops up saying that they can't help with my problem at this time, try again. I've had a Mac for three months now and their support system fails every, single time.
So, on to the problem at hand. As I read the various forums about iMovie it has struck me as rather odd that no one seems to have a problem with the engineers at Apple creating a software package that does not allow you to save your work. Now, it took me all of a nano second to realize the likely out come of such stupidity. And, on my very first big project my prediction came true. iMovie crashed as I finished my project and destroying all of my work.
So my first question is, how could the engineers at Apple possibly justify not including a "save" and "save as" function to iMovie? The absurdity of this reaches new heights. This has disaster written all over it. And it appears that many people are having the same problems.
Secondly: I've read messages from people who seem to think that not having a "save" or "save as" function was a brilliant stroke of genius. OK, so this question goes out to those people. If it is so brilliant then please explain to me how I can recover my last twenty hours of work? If there had been a "save" function I would have been saving my project all along the way and I would only have lost the last half an hour or so and not the entire 20 hours.
So, tell me. Precisely. Step-by-step. How do I recover my work.

Error message:The iPod cannot be updated. The file or directory corrupted..

HELP!! error message: "The iPod cannot be updated. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."
What do i do?!?! it wont let me update or ANYTHING, it wont even let me delete anything off of it. Its a 5th generation 30 gig about 1 1/2 years old. HELP?!?!
5th generation 30 gig Windows XP

Hi swiss22!
Have you tried restoring your iPod? For instructions and info on how to restore an iPod, see this:
Restoring iPod to factory settings
If a restore doesn't help, then take a look at this post by Da Gopha:
Da Gopha: Info on iTunes "corrupt" error messages
-Kylene

Ipod won't sync...files/directory corrupted..

Hello,
I have been trying to sync my Ipod with Itunes and I keep getting an error message that says basically it can't sync because the files or directory has become corrupted and unreadable.
Searching other sites I see some mention of this issue for others, and suggestions that the issue is likely due to files being "locked" in the directory and once "unlocked" the problem goes away.
My issue is I am pretty computer dumb when it comes to locating directories and knowing what to look for and do once I am there. Also, the "fixes" I've read thus far are for folks running a Mac..I have a PC...any fixes for a PC?
Has anyone had experience with this Ipod issue, and can someone please explain to me in step-by-step directions how to get to the directory so I can look for these "locked" files?? Then what to do with them?
Thank you so much, any help is greatly appreciated!!
Misa

Have you connected any new USB devices recently? Has the drive letter of the external drive been changed? Have you checked the external drive for errors? Does the problem persist if you power off the computer, then restart with the iPod & your external drive as the only USB devices?
tt2

Active Directory Domain Services crash after Administrator renames object in Active Directory Users and Computers

Hello.
We have two domain controllers - node1 (Windows 2008 R2) and node2 (Windows 2012 R2). When administrator connects to node2 and tries to rename some object in AD (for example, user) AD Domain Services crashes and reboot server after 60 seconds.
In Events I can see these messages:
Log Name:      Directory Service
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService
Date:          04.03.2014 12:37:58
Event ID:      1173
Task Category: Internal Processing
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          domain\admin
Computer:      NODE2.domain.example
Description:
Internal event: Active Directory Domain Services has encountered the following exception and associated parameters.
Exception:
c0000005
Parameter:
0
Additional Data
Error value:
7ffc7c38e45d
Internal ID:
0
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService" Guid="{0e8478c5-3605-4e8c-8497-1e730c959516}" EventSourceName="NTDS General" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32768">1173</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>9</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-03-04T06:37:58.116264800Z" />
    <EventRecordID>881</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="572" ThreadID="2580" />
    <Channel>Directory Service</Channel>
    <Computer>NODE2.domain.example</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3794920928-4165619442-305938157-2047" />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
    <Data>7ffc7c38e45d</Data>
    <Data>0</Data>
    <Data>0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date:          04.03.2014 12:37:58
Event ID:      1015
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      NODE2.domain.example
Description:
A critical system process, C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe, failed with status code c0000005. The machine must now be restarted.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1015</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-03-04T06:37:58.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>189578</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>NODE2.domain.example</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe</Data>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          04.03.2014 12:37:58
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      NODE2.domain.example
Description:
Faulting application name: lsass.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215e25f
Faulting module name: ntdsai.dll, version: 6.3.9600.16421, time stamp: 0x524fcaed
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000019e45d
Faulting process id: 0x23c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf3773fe973e1b
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\ntdsai.dll
Report Id: 85cfbe32-a367-11e3-80cc-00155d006724
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-03-04T06:37:58.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>189576</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>NODE2.domain.example</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>lsass.exe</Data>
    <Data>6.3.9600.16384</Data>
    <Data>5215e25f</Data>
    <Data>ntdsai.dll</Data>
    <Data>6.3.9600.16421</Data>
    <Data>524fcaed</Data>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
    <Data>000000000019e45d</Data>
    <Data>23c</Data>
    <Data>01cf3773fe973e1b</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\system32\ntdsai.dll</Data>
    <Data>85cfbe32-a367-11e3-80cc-00155d006724</Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
In node2 we installed all available updates and hotfixes.

Hi Azamat Hackimov,
Regarding to error messages, it seems that the
ntdsai.dll file caused the issue. Based on current situation, please use
sfc /scannow command to scan protected system files and check if find error and repair. Meanwhile, you can also navigate to the location of this DLL file and confirm details.
In addition, Windows Server 2012 R2 has reboot unexpectedly. Please check if you get some dump file and then analysis it. It may help us to find the root reason. Please refer
to the following KB.
How to read the small dump memory dump file that is created by Windows if a crash occurs.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263/en-us
By the way, it is not effective for us to debug the crash dump file here in the forum. If this issues is a state of emergency for you. Please contact Microsoft Customer Service
and Support (CSS) via telephone so that a dedicated Support Professional can assist with your request.
To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request, please refer to the web site listed below:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;OfferProPhone#faq607
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

How to restore from back up when some files are corrupt and crash the restore?

iphone 4 16gb
IOS 5.0.1
iTunes 10.5.3
History:
installed iOS5 back on release date. install was interrupted, likely due to high volumes. Completed install. Initial problem noted: unable to add events to calendar. Then problem progressed to "Voice Memo" app crashing. I installed "Quick Voice" app as an alternative. Problem progressed further to an unexplained increase in "other" content on iphone. Last week I tried syncing my phone and received error message that I didn't have enough space to complete sync. Noted then that "other" content was around 5.4gb! Removed "voice memos" playlist from selected playlists to sync under music tab and noted that other content dropped to 4.5gb
Synced the phone and noticed that it appeared to move through the sync process faster than usual. Sync showed "audio" content and "other" content to be the same size at about 4.5gbs.
After sync was completed I disconnected the phone and looked at the content of my phone. No apps, No music, No photo albums! SMS texts, Notes and Contacts still all intact on phone.
Tried multiple solutions including restore to fix the problem. Each time, when the phone is plugged in and mounted in iTunes, it shows audio content at 4.5gb and other content at 4.5gbs yet the phone itself has no music, no apps and no photo albums. It does still have pictures in "camera roll", though.
After trying many suggested solutions, I gave up and went to Apple store to see the Geniuses (Genii ) They did a firmware update and reset my phone. I was advised to restore from back up. However, when I tried to restore from my back up, it would fail to complete. Unable to restore from back up and sync attempts fail.
The only data I really don't want to lose is my text message history, my notes and my voice files from "Quick Voice" app.
Restoring from back up is not an option since I believe there are corrupt files in the back up. So what I want to know is can I restore my phone as a new phone, and then re-install my text message history, notes and the sound files from the "Quick Voice" app? Perhaps using a 3rd party app to retrieve those particular files from my back up and copy them to the phone directly? Or can I create a new back up file and copy those files to the new back up file. Hopefully I would then be able to restore from the newly created back up successfully since the likely corrupt files will be in the old back up file?
All other information; apps, photos, music and contacts can be re-installed from iTunes.

Sigh....
And it just keeps getting stranger! I just disconnected the internet and opened iTunes on my Mac. It opens just fine when disconnected from the internet. iTunes crash seems to be caused when it's trying to connect to iTunes store????
Really need help!
1) Why is iTunes crashing when connected to internet?
2) If I am unable to restore from my back up due to corrupted files within the back up, how can I preserve my text messages, notes and "Quick Voice" app files?

InDesign cannot export to pdf after corrupt file crash. Mac 10.6.8, CS5 7.0.4

Last Friday when opening an InDesign file that had become corrupt on the server, it crashed InDesign and since then hasn't been able to export to PDF. I've done a complete uninstall/reinstall of Creative Suite, ran Disk Utility on the MAC and still no luck. My next step is a complete wipe of the MAC and reinstall everything unless someone has another idea. Thanks, Ed

see Adobe Forums: InDesign crashes at startup for John's list of additional user files you can delete. If that doesn't work, try renaming the Adobe folders inthe bad account, then copy the ones from the admin account that works.

File directory corrupted

Every time I try to copy files from the library to the iPod it displays the message
"The iPod 'username' cannot be synced.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."
The songs, according to iTunes, copy just fine onto the iPod despite this--I click the iPod button in iTunes and it shows the songs on the iPod. I disconnect the iPod and look on there and the songs have disappeared. I plug it back into the computer and even through iTunes it now says the songs are gone.
I've tried all of the 5 R's except Restore, there's too much invested on the thing that I'm willing to wipe it clean, so that's ruled out. Any suggestions short of that?

You might want to start pulling out those CDs, I think you need to try a restore.
If you can see your iPod in Windows when you connect it, you can try YamiPod, or other similar third party software and copy your songs back to your computer without using iTunes then do the restore.
Is there a reason you delete your library from your computer? Your current situation shows why this is not a good idea, the iPod is just not a good archive media tool. Not only should you leave the songs on your computer, I will also back them up as computers also fail.

Fix: Active directory corrupted (NTDS ISAM Database Corruption errors in eventlog)

It worked for me!
Frank Keunen
IT-Pro Evangelist :: Microsoft IT Infrastructure Engineer
Follow the procedure below to fix Microsoft Active Directory database problems (corrupted Active Directory due to e.g memory issues/disk problems):
1. Reboot the server and press F8. Choose Directory Services Restore Mode from the Menu.
2. Check the physical location of the Winnt\NTDS\ folder.
3. Check the permissions on the \Winnt\NTDS folder. The default permissions are: Administrators – Full Control System – Full Control
4. Check the Winnt\Sysvol\Sysvol folder to make sure it is shared.
5. Check the permissions on the Winnt\Sysvol\Sysvol share. The default permissions are: Share Permissions: —————— Administrators – Full Control Authenticated Users – Full Control Everyone – Read NTFS Permissions: —————– Administrators – Full Control Authenticated
Users – Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read Creator Owner – none Server Operators – Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read System – Full Control Note: You may not be able to change the permissions on these folders if the Active Directory
database is unavailable because it is damaged, however it is best to know if the permissions are set correctly before you start the recovery process, as it may not be the database that is the problem.
6. Make sure there is a folder in the Sysvol share labeled with the correct name for their domain.
7. Open a command prompt and run NTDSUTIL to verify the paths for the NTDS.dit file. These should match the physical structure from Step 2. To check the file paths type the following commands: Start a command prompt NTDSUTIL Files Info The output should
look similar to: Drive Information: C:\ NTFS (Fixed Drive) free (2.9 Gb) total (3.9 Gb) D:\ NTFS (Fixed Drive) free (3.6 Gb) total (3.9 Gb) DS Path Information: Database : C:\WINNT\NTDS\ntds.dit – 10.1 Mb Backup dir: C:\WINNT\NTDS\dsadata.bak Working dir:
C:\WINNT\NTDS Log dir : C:\WINNT\NTDS – 30.0 Mb total res2.log – 10.0 Mb res1.log – 10.0 Mb edb.log – 10.0 Mb This information is pulled directly from the registry and mismatched paths will cause Active Directory not to start. Type Quit to end the NTDSUTIL
session.
8. Rename the edb.chk file and try to boot to Normal mode. If that fails, proceed with the next steps.
9. Reboot into Directory Services Restore mode again. At the command prompt, use the ESENTUTL to check the integrity of the database. NOTE: You can use NTDSUTIL to check the Integrity, however esentutl is usually more reliable. Type the following command:
ESENTUTL /g “\NTDS.dit” /!10240 /8 /v /x /o (Note: Type the path without the quotes). Note: The default path would be C:\Winnt\NTDS\ntds.dit; however it may be different in some cases. The output will tell you if the database is inconsistent and may produce
a jet_error 1206 stating that the database is corrupt. If the database is inconsistent or corrupt it will need to be recovered or repaired . To recover the database type the following at the command prompt: NTDSUTIL Files Recover If this fails with an error,
type quit until back at the command prompt and repair the database using ESENTUTL by typing the following: ESENTUTL /p “\NTDS.dit” /!10240 /8 /v /x /o (Note: Type the path without the quotes). Note: If you do not put the switches at the end of the command
you will most likely get a Jet_error 1213 “Page size mismatch” error.
10. Delete the log files in the NTDS directory, but do not delete or move the ntds.dit file.
11. The NTDSUTIL tool needs to be run again to check the Integrity of the database and to perform a Semantic Database analysis. To check the integrity, at the command prompt type: NTDSUTIL Files Integrity The output should tell you that the integrity check
completed successfully and prompt that you should perform a Semantic Database Analysis. Type quit. To perform the Semantic Database Analysis type the following at the NTDSUTIL Prompt type: Semantic Database Analysis Go The output will tell you that the Analysis
completed successfully. Type quit and closes the command prompt. NOTE: If you get errors running the Analysis then type the following at the semantic checker prompt: semantic checker: go fix This puts the checker in Fixup mode, which should fix whatever errors
there were.
12. Reboot the server to Normal Mode. If any of these steps fail to recover the database the only alternative is to perform an Authoritative System State restore from backup in Directory Services Restore mode. For more information, please refer to the following
articles: 315136 HOW TO: Complete a Semantic Database Analysis for the Active Directory http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315136 265706 DCDiag and NetDiag in Windows 2000 Facilitate Domain Join and DC Creation http://support.microsoft.com/?id=265706 258007
Error Message: Lsass.exe – System Error : Security Accounts Manager http://support.microsoft.com/?id=258007 265089 Event 1168: Windows 2000 DCs Unable to Boot into Active Directory http://support.microsoft.com/?id=265089 315131 HOW TO: Use Ntdsutil to Manage
Active Directory Files from the Command http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315131 BR – Frank

Frank: This procedure (with some variations required for my environment) worked
perfectly. Thank you very much.
To other readers: The procedure works, but it is a loaded gun. Be careful and methodical.
The specifics of my situation, which I offer as additional information, are:
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP2 with all updates.
One server, 20 clients; of course the server is the domain controller.
I suggest running the command prompt window at an elevated security level ("run as:", followed by unchecking the "restricted" box).
I also suggest changing directories to C:\WINNT\NTDS or C:\WINDOWS\NTDS, as appropriate.
Variations:
The location of the NTDS folder is C:\WINDOWS\NTDS for an install that is not an upgrade from Server 2000.
Step 9 -- the parameters for ESENTUTL are different. For the integrity check I used "ESENTUTL /g NTDS.DIT /8" as the other parameters are not available.
Also in step 9 -- For the repair step that was required I used "ESENTUTL /p NTDS.DIT /8". There was a window warning of a possible data loss, which clicking OK cleared.
Step 11 -- NTDSUTIL FILES INTEGRITY works properly without change. However, the Semantic Database Analysis check cannot be run in a single command. I used "NTDSUTIL SEMANTIC DATABASE ANALYSIS" followed by "GO" at the next prompt. The database analysis does
not report a positive result, but if there is no warning the database passes the analysis. To be certain I ran the "GO FIX" step anyway, which gave identical output.
After this procedure the system started perfectly. I recommend this procedure as the answer to the problem.
-- E. R. Quinones

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Hi,
I have a customer running 8.1.7 database on Redhat Linux 2.1 platform. His problem is: when his computer system crashes, he is not able to do an update on a table anymore because the block gets corrupted.
Can anything be done to fix this?
Thanks,
Vijay.

hi sam,
this is the OracleAS Portal Content Management forum. Please post your question in the Database forum
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Hi,
while producing video tutorials we are inserting foil backgrounds and so on. Now it happens very often, that the project suddenly is corrupt in that way that no new foil can be inserted (nor by recording, importing, or copy/paste). If trying to do so Capitvate notifies an error and crashes. But it is possible to edit the existing foils and to produce the (unfinished) videos.
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- Does anyone know what causes the corruption?
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Hi,
fyi:
Meanwhile I found out that the project can be rescued. After reviewing OS processes, OS setup changes, reinstalling Captivate and so on and so forth the project is further on corrupt. Because it was possible to copy foils - but not inserting - I copied all foils at once, opened a new project, and pasted the foils. That's all, the new project can now be processed as expected.
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I had spent my artwork for many days with so many effort and time, and it has been corrupted after a computer crash (not PSD crash). I am using Windows 7.
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