Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3

We had another corruption incident on the very same machine, this time in the jboss subsystem (a "jar cvf" produced corrupted .jar).
IMHO this means faulty RAM/disk.
If that is true, then i guess HW sanity checks are even more important than SW upgrades.

On Δευ 18 Ιουν 2012 11:36:14 you wrote:
> Thanx, well said, and especially after this incident we should very well
> consider seriously an upgrade.
>
> On Παρ 15 Ιουν 2012 19:59:05 Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > Well, I'd see about finding a way to upgrade to 8.3.19. 8.3.3 has
> > know data eating bugs.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Achilleas Mantzios
> >
> > <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
> > > On Παρ 15 Ιουν 2012 18:03:26 Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > >> Not talking about going to something after 8.3.19, just updating to
> > >> the latest 8.3 version. On most systems it's a simple:
> > >>
> > >> sudo apt-get upgrade
> > >>
> > >> or similar and sit back and watch.
> > >
> > > Thanx, unfortunately we dont have TCP/IP connectivity to (most of) the
> > > ships, and AFAIK apt-get does not yet work over advanced
> > > UUCP/minicom/kermit or other equivalent hich-tech dial up connection.
> > > just joking :)
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Achilleas Mantzios
> > >>
> > >> <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
> > >> > On Παρ 15 Ιουν 2012 10:28:20 Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > >> >> You do realize you're missing four years of bug fixes right?
> > >> >
> > >> > On Πεμ 14 Ιουν 2012 11:39:35 Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> > >> >> Unfortunately the remote installations are neither physically
> > >> >> accessible nor by TCP/IP accesible (comms are done via UUCP and
> > >> >> administration via minicom, and the costs are just huge 5 USD/min
> > >> >> for 33Kbits/sec). So, i would exhaust all posibilities before
> > >> >> deciding to ship a new postgresql version there, and remotely
> > >> >> upgrade, physically travel to the ship or even trying to do a
> > >> >> backup/initdb/restore in the existing version. Any help would be
> > >> >> really really appreciated.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Also, as you might have understood, upgrading, although generally a
> > >> >> good idea, does not apply so easily in our case.
> > >> >
> > >> > And i forgot to mention, minicom term emulation quality sucks, even
> > >> > giving simple shell commands is a PITA, upgrading the whole fleet
> > >> > would mean bast case scenario minimum 21K USD for the whole fleet +
> > >> > suspension of all other activities for two months. If physical
> > >> > travel was involved, the cost would be increased at even higher
> > >> > levels.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > -
> > >> > Achilleas Mantzios
> > >> > IT DEPT
> > >
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