Tag: ND801

New Replica Crashes Domino 8.0.1 (64 Bit)

When creating a new replica from another server on a Domino 8.0.1 (64 Bit) on Windows 2003 (64 Bit), the server crashes and you will find these lines in your NSD file:

############################################################
### FATAL THREAD 54/73 [ nSERVER: 0138: 09a4]
### FP=0x1080C9342, PC=0x014fb0a8, SP=0x1a92bcd0
### stkbase=1a930000, total stksize=4194304, used stksize=17200
### EAX=0x1080C931C, EBX=0x00000000, ECX=0x080c9342, EDX=0x080c9344
### ESI=0x080c9342, EDI=0x1a92f2d8, CS=0x00000033, SS=0x0000002b
### DS=0x0000002b, ES=0x0000002b, FS=0x00000053, GS=0x0000002b
Flags=0x00010293
Exception code: c0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION)
############################################################
@[ 1] 0x014fb0a8 nnotes.Cmovmem+656 (1a92f2d8,4f0101,0,159b400)”

This seems to be similar to SPR RMAA7D9HAP. The Knowledgebase says that this will be fixed in 8.0.2.
I informed IBM and they promised to provide a hotfix to solve this issue.

Update: Received hotfix today. Problem solved!


Domino 8.0.1 – Design / Document Compression

Compress Design / Documents
I’ve recently updated 2 Domino servers from version 7.0.3 to version 8.0.1. Both server are hosting 600 mail files. The filesize varies from 30MB up to 10GB. Hence one of the server nearly went out of available disk space, I enabled database design and document data compression, which is a new feature in Domino 8.0.1.

To use this feature, the NSF must be ODS 48. To upgrade the database to ODS 48, enter the following setting in your NOTES.INI file:

Create_R8_Databases=1

For the Notes client mail template (MAIL8.NTF), this setting is enabled by default and the design is compressed when the mail database is created. For all other databases or if you update from a previous Domino version and keep the design of your mail files, you must manually enable the setting and then run a copy style compact on the database.

It took about 48 hours to compress all mail files. The results of the compression are listed in the picture below:

Compress Statistics

170GB freed space is a good result. This is 170GB less data to backup. What is your experience with the new Domino database design and document data compression?


Attempt To Perform Folder Operation On Non-Folder Note

I updated a Notes 7.0.3 server to the new 8.0.1 release. All mail-files were converted to ODS 48 using compact -c “mail-file”.
Everything works fine until I started our Blackberry Enterprise Server which is installed on a separate machine and accesses the mailfiles of 25 users on the recently updated server.
When the BES accesses a mailfile, an error message occurs on the Domino server console:

22.03.2008 13:17:24 Database note open error: NT00000566 document in database g:
ed by CN=BLACKBERRY/O=XXXXXX: Attempt to perform folder operation on non-folder note.

This error looks similar to the one described here and here. In both cases the error occured because a non-folder notes contained an $Name item with the value ($Inbox).
I investigated the mail files in question but could not find any duplicate note.

Attempt To Perform Folder Operation On Non-Folder Node

All Note-IDs in the error messages refer to a unique design element in all affected mail files: ($Sent).

This is a non-folder note, indeed. I did another search for duplicate notes containing ($Sent) in the $Names field, but there are no duplicates … My next attempt was to delete the ($Sent) view and replace the design with the template.

But even this has no effect; the error still occurs, although the sychronization between Domino and the Blackberry devices via BES seems to work without any error.

Well, I think that I’ll have to create a service desk call at IBM. Or can anyone of the Blackberry gurus within the Notes Community shed a light on this issue ?