innd 2.3 hangon after an news.daily

[Heath Kehoe]

>Hi,
>
>I test the version inn-CURRENT-20000414 with he db-2.7.7 .
>After a news.daily the innd wasn't responding. The same after an newstart.
>Over the gdb I found the program waiting in the open_db_file() function.
>
>The ovdb_recover logs that:
>Apr 17 11:13:30 papenburg-lnx ovdb_recover[408]: OVDB: log_get: read: Input/output error
>Apr 17 11:13:30 papenburg-lnx ovdb_recover[408]: OVDB: Finding last valid log LSN: file: 35 offset 3827394
>Apr 17 11:13:30 papenburg-lnx ovdb_recover[408]: OVDB: log_get: unable to find checkpoint record: no checkpoint set.
>Apr 17 11:14:19 papenburg-lnx ovdb_recover[408]: OVDB: log_get: checksum mismatch
>Apr 17 11:14:19 papenburg-lnx ovdb_recover[408]: OVDB: log_get: read: Input/output error
>

Those "Input/output error" messages (errno == EIO) probably mean you've
got bad blocks on your disk; or some other hardware trouble.

--heath