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Cannot change chunk status. ISAM error: illegal argument to ISAM function

Troubleshooting


Problem

When you use onspaces to change the status of a down chunk to online, you receive the error "Cannot change chunk status. ISAM error: illegal argument to ISAM function"

Symptom


The database server has one or more chunks marked as down. You are attempting to bring the down chunks back online using the onspaces -s command and you receive the error "Cannot change chunk status. ISAM error: illegal argument to ISAM function". The chunk remains offline.

Example

onspaces -s dbs1 -p /path/to/dbs1chunk1 -o 0 -O
Warning: Bringing chunk back online.
Do you really want to continue? (y/n) y
Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
Cannot change chunk status.
ISAM error:  illegal argument to ISAM function.

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21153097

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