Scheduled Walk Malfunctioning

[mmcfadden]

I am having problems with the scheduled walks. I have one collection with a daily new walk and another collection with a weekly new walk. I first looked in the walk status and it looks like the walk keeps getting "ABANDONED" with the following error message for both walks the only difference being the Profile name.

Latest run: ABANDONED Make this live

Webinator Walk Report for ada

Creating database d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator/texis/ada/db1...
005 d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\scripts\webinator\dowalk(create) 1112: Corrupt block header at 0xC84 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\testdb\SYSTRIG.tbl: Probable 32-bit file; convert to 64-bit via addtable in the function read_head

005 d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\scripts\webinator\dowalk(create) 1112: Corrupt next header at 0x563D7 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\testdb\options.tbl: Probable 32-bit file; convert to 64-bit via addtable in the function read_rest_data

005 d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\scripts\webinator\dowalk(create) 1112: Corrupt block header at 0x563D7 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\testdb\options.tbl: Probable 32-bit file; convert to 64-bit via addtable in the function read_head
Done.

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt next header at 0xC84 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSTRIG.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_rest_data

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt next header at 0xCF4 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSUSERS.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_rest_data

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt next header at 0x2857 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSTABLE.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_rest_data

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt block header at 0x2857 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSTABLE.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_head

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt next header at 0x11C0 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSPERMS.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_rest_data

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt block header at 0x11C0 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSPERMS.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_head

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt block header at 0xC84 in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\SYSTRIG.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_head

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt next header at 0xC9A in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\counts.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_rest_data

005 [webinatoradmin](longreport) 1107: Corrupt block header at 0xC9A in KDBF file d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\ada\db1\counts.tbl: Probable 64-bit file; convert to 32-bit via addtable in the function read_head
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I also read in other post that I should also provide the following information.

texis -LS
Script: d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\scripts\webina
tor\dowalk/dispatch.txt
Vars: profile=dlkmstest what=sched
Schedule: daily at 1
Next run: 2003-10-14 01:00 (in 11h 25m)
Last run: 2003-10-13 01:00 (12h 34m ago) took 2m 27s with exit code 1
First run: 2003-09-11 01:00
Status: runnable, 33 executions, first last, id 3f5f8ee41c

Script: d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator\texis\scripts\webina
tor\dowalk/dispatch.txt
Vars: profile=ada what=sched
Schedule: weekly on sun at 4
Next run: 2003-10-19 04:00 (in 5d 14h)
Last run: 2003-10-12 04:00 (1d 9h ago) took 2m 27s with exit code 1
First run: 2003-07-06 04:00
Status: runnable, 15 executions, first last, id 3f020bf7f

[mmcfadden]

I have also found that manually started walks work most of the time without an error or being "ABANDONED".

[mark]

Sounds like multiple incompatible versions of Texis installed on that machine.

Did those scheduled walks ever work (I notice they've been running a long time)?
What's your texis version (texis -version)?
Did you ever have another version of Webinator installed before this one?
If so, has the machine been rebooted since installing the new version? If not, try that.

[mmcfadden]

The scheduled walks have never worked.
My texis version is Webinator 4.3.8-Windows-w/plug-in
Yes we had the free version of Webinator 4.3.? and upgraded I tried to locate the page where you can download the search, dowalk, and admin scripts but I can't seem to find it. My Webinator history has been to first install the free version. Second install over the free version with the Professional webinator. Then as the scripts have been updated and available online I have downloaded and replaced previous versions. I currently use the 4.3.8 dowalk and webinatoradmin and the 4.3.7 search scripts. There weren't any changes between 4.3.7 and 4.3.8 in the search script so felt safe in using the old version because of all the modifications we have done to the search script. Also the server has been rebooted several times.

[mark]

The free download version (32 bit) is incompatible with your Professional version (64 bit). All I can guess is that there's still some remnant of the free version somewhere.

Cleanest would probably be to uninstall, make sure by hand that everything under the install directory is gone and that texis.exe is gone from your cgi directory. Then install the Professional version anew.

Or you could look in the install directory to see if any of the dates on the exe's are not close to each other. If there are any .exe files that are particularly older than the rest they are likely remnants from the free install.

[mmcfadden]

Is there an easy way to capture all of our settings before the uninstall and restore them after the clean install? The easy part is the search script because all I need to do is install the system and take my custom search script and replace the installed version. But what about all my configurations.

[mmcfadden]

I looked in my \Webinator folder and found that anytotx.exe, geturl.exe, gw.exe, texis.exe are all dated 6-4-03. The only .exe file that differs is the monitor.exe file with a date of 4/29/03. Are these dates reasonable and are there other folders I should look for executables and their dates.

[mark]

That monitor is probably the problem. Rename it (you may have to go to a command prompt and run "INSTALLDIR\monitor -k" and/or "INSTALLDIR\monitor -U" before NT will let you rename it). Then copy texis.exe to monitor.exe and run "INSTALLDIR\monitor -R".

[mmcfadden]

Would you recommend making a backup of our Webinator settings before replacing the monitor.exe file. Are there any more detailed instructions on replacing the monitor.exe file.

[mark]

No particular need to backup, but it never hurts. The program doesn't change your settings. It is running the scheduled jobs.

There's not much to say about replacing monitor.exe. Unregister it, ensure that it's not running, replace it, re-register it. INSTALLDIR above is the directory you gave during install when asked where to install. "d:\Program Files\Thunderstone Software\Webinator" in your case.