We have recently installed Jumpbox MediaWiki under VMWare on a Windows 2003 R2 server to create an internal Wiki site. Everything works great except for one thing. Every morning when I arrive at work, there is a dialog box on the screen saying:
An operation on the "H:\Third-party Software Packages\WAMPServer\JumpBox WikiMedia All-In-One\mediawiki-1.0.2\disks\root.hdd" file has failed.
It gives me options to RETRY, ABORT or CONTINUE. While this dialog box is displayed, no one can access the Wiki page. Once I click RETRY, the box closes and everything is fine until the following morning, so it can obviously access the network share at that point.
Keep in mind that while I am Windows proficient, I am COMPLETELY new to the world of UNIX and don't know where to begin to look. Can anybody lend assistance?
Thanks in advance. I don't want to spend the rest of my career coming in seven days a week just to click CONTINUE.
Mike
Solved!
Austin;
Thanks for your reply. You certainly put me on the right track. While the event logs on both machines didn't show any errors or informatory entries regarding the file in question, your mention of virus scans and/or backups led me to exclude the Jumpbox folder from the nightly backup (Symantec Veritas 10d) and this morning, no dialog box!
I'm running VMWare 2.0.1 build-55017 with MediaWiki 1.0.2. The VMWare website didn't have any info related to my issue, but at least now, if anyone else experiences this and searches the forums on Jumpbox, they can find the solution.
Thanks for a great product!
Mike
That is certainly annoying.
That is certainly annoying. The JumpBox itself is completely self contained and does nothing outside of the virtualization environment so it has NO KNOWLEDGE of anything on H:/ ... . So this has to be something external to the JumpBox and possibly external to VMware itself. Perhaps some nightly backup or virus scan is trying to access the root.hdd and taking the virtual machine offline.
Perhaps there is something in your logs about "unable to open/read a file".
I like to think we are safe living down in our little virtualized world but this is a perfect example of how external processes on the Host machine can cause problems at the Guest level.
BTW, what VMware product are you using?
Thanks for the feedback and let me know what you find.
Austin