Hey folks, had a database running for several weeks without any problems but early this morning anytime a client would try to connect to it the connection would just hang. After shutting down and restarting I see this: 2009-11-23 09:38:06 MSG merovingian[28036]: starting Merovingian 1.1 for dbfarm /opt/MonetDB5/dbfarm 2009-11-23 09:38:06 MSG merovingian[28036]: listening for TCP connections on 0.0.0.0:50000 2009-11-23 09:38:06 MSG discovery[28036]: listening for UDP messages on 0.0.0.0:50000 2009-11-23 09:38:06 MSG merovingian[28036]: handling commands over UNIX socket /opt/MonetDB5/dbfarm/.merovingian_control 2009-11-23 09:38:06 MSG discovery[28036]: new neighbour 10.1.0.79 2009-11-23 09:38:07 MSG discovery[28036]: new database mapi:monetdb:// hsdw01:50000/reporting_primary (ttl=660s) 2009-11-23 09:39:45 MSG merovingian[28036]: starting database 'reporting_primary' due to control signal 2009-11-23 09:39:45 MSG merovingian[28036]: database 'reporting_primary' has crashed after start on 2009-11-23 09:36:59, attempting restart, up min/avg/max: 2m/2d/1w, crash average: 1.00 0.60 0.27 (18-10=8) 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: arguments: /usr/bin/mserver5 --config=/etc/monetdb5.conf --dbname=reporting_primary --dbinit=include sql; --set monet_daemon=yes --set mapi_open=false --set mapi_autosense=true --set mapi_port=50001 --set monet_vault_key=/opt/MonetDB5/dbfarm/reporting_primary /.vaultkey 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # MonetDB server v5.14.2, based on kernel v1.32.2 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # Serving database 'reporting_primary', using 8 threads 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # Compiled for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/64bit with 64bit OIDs dynamically linked 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # Copyright (c) 1993-July 2008 CWI. 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # Copyright (c) August 2008-2009 MonetDB B.V., all rights reserved 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # Visit http://monetdb.cwi.nl / for further information 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # Listening for connection requests on mapi:monetdb://127.0.0.1:50001/ 2009-11-23 09:39:46 MSG reporting_primary[28067]: # MonetDB/SQL module v2.32.2 loaded 2009-11-23 09:39:46 ERR reporting_primary[28067]: !mvc_init: unable to create system tables 2009-11-23 09:39:55 ERR merovingian[28036]: failed to fork mserver: database 'reporting_primary' has inconsistent state (running but dead), review merovingian's logfile for any peculiarities The database marks itself as running but any attempt to connect to it returns the following error: monetdb ERROR MALException:setScenario:Scenario not initialized 'sql' I've read other problems reports that had a similar issue and the suggestion was to wait for the sql module to allow connections but even after 5 minutes this is all that is returned. Is there any way to get this database back to a consistent state so that it is usable? 73, Matthew W. Jones (KI4ZIB) http://matburt.net