Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once >> on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on >> the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other >> builds however. > > Oh, this is interesting: > > http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=baiji&dt=2007-04-26%2022:00:02 > > Different compiler, different OS, not quite the same block number (109, > whereas IIRC all the previous examples have complained of block 104). > Is this the same physical machine as narwhal?
Yes, it is. It's an FC6 box running VMWare server, with a Win 2k3r2 VM and a Vista ultimate VM, both with mingw and msvc animals. I'm still not convinced it's a hardware problem - aside from the fact that it's the same error every time (although, I note in this case it was in check, not installcheck), I would expect at least one of SMART, FC6, VMware or 2k3/Vista to spot that there was a problem. I have also recreated the virtual disks of both VMs since this started happening. I wonder if we're hitting some odd bug in VMware. Anyhoo, unfortunately Baiji wasn't set to keep error builds - I've changed that now and will run it a few times again. I'll also run a sector level check of Narwhal's virtual disk and see if that complains. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster