[Nix-dev] bdb database crashing all the time under vmware

[Armijn Hemel]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 02:31 -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> Some more nixos bugs. It seems that every once and a while when I run 
> "nixos-rebuild switch", I get some complaints from bdb saying that there 
> was corruption. I'm not sure if this is because I'm running under 
> vmware, although a quick google doesn't suggest a config problem between 
> the two. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a copy of the error, 
> so I can't refer to the output yet. Has anyone else experienced this?

Are you perhaps storing the database on a networked filesystem (NFS,
SMB, whatever)?

Berkeley DB can't work properly with networked filesystems, due to some
inner magic of Berkeley DB.

armijn

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