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"Illegal characters in path (mscorlib)" when trying to Attach Database in SQL Server 2005

I am trying to Attach a database in SQL Server 2005, and get the following error: =================================== Illegal characters in path. (mscorlib) ------------------------------ Program Location: at…
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Is there any possible way for a VPN connection to result in corrupt file uploads?

Update w/actual answer: I selected the single answer below, because it encouraged looking deeper into actual machine, actual user, etc. The problem appears only in Microsoft Word files, and only for specific users. After watching the user behavior,…
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iSCSI and NFS file locking and concurrency

I've got a linux host that need to mount a data share located on a NAS. The choice is between NFS v3 (NAS limitation) and iSCSI. The initial idea was to have a NFS mount to the file server that provide the samba mount points to the rest of the…
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Jenkins SVN checkout borks new files

I am running a Jenkins CI server which polls an SVN server and checks out the (Maven) project and builds it. We have recently changed the build server and I set up Jenkins afresh with the few projects we have. Now this new instance has a major…
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MySQL: Increased buffer pool, ibdata1 corrupt?

I tried increasing innodb_buffer_pool_size via my.cnf from default 128m to 256m, but on restart attempt, mysql shutdown failed with: 130125 11:49:55 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 256.0M 130125 11:49:55 InnoDB: Completed initialization of…
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Corrupted characters when in BIOS menu

I'm experiencing hardware problems with one of my machines. Ignoring the rest of the symptoms I was curious about one of them. When I enter the BIOS, random characters are screwed up... as in, replaced by random characters. What kind of hardware…
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MySQL Tweaking for performance

[mysqld] myisam_repair_threads=4 key_buffer = 64M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 32M join_buffer_size = 2M read_buffer_size = 2M sort_buffer_size = 2M read_rnd_buffer_size = 2M table_cache = 1024 thread_cache_size = 16K wait_timeout = 20 connect_timeout…
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How can I prevent silent corruption on a dying hard drive?

With a drying drive (that has more and more bad sectors), on an ext4-journaled partition, a cp operation will sometimes complete without error, but the written data will either be wrong, or just won't be readable (Invalid Argument errors after…
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ran fsck on a mounted partition, now centos 5 won't boot

Yes, I very stupidly ran fsck on a mounted parition. Immediate regret. What's happening now is I see grub, it starts booting centos 5, then it says: bin/sh: ro: no such file or directory kernel panic I've booted with a clonezilla livecd and…
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Why would an ext3 filsystem be rolled back on a Debian VM running in VirtualBox after loss of power to the host

A Debian Virtual machine runs as a Guest VirtualBox VM. It's filesystem is EXT3. The host system loses power and after booting up the host system and guest VM, I find that the VM's filesystem has been rolled back to a previous state, losing changes…
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Corrupt label; bad magic number

While trying to install Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 2500 Silver, I got an error: OpenBoot indicates me a problem with the hard drive: "Corrupt label; bad magic number". Later, during the Solaris installation process, the hard drive is not…
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strange usb file system corruption

We have a few X7DBT Supermicro motherboards that is using a Kingston DataTraveler 102 USB Flash Drive as a boot drive. The customer had 10 systems and they say that the site had a power failure. Once the power came back on, the 6 systems did not…
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Windows Server 2008 repair logonui.exe

I'm fairly certain some data on my server got corrupted and from a dialog box that popped up I think one of the things that got corrupted is logonui.exe I think this because while the server goes through BIOS and the windows loading splash screen,…
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how to send a corrupt netbios packet

I want to send a corrupt netbios Session Service packet to my machine, My goal it to check whether my machine restarts or not upon receiving the corrupt netbios packet (this has happened before and I want to reproduce the same). I am using scapy…
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Moving files with batch files from one pc to a server, to a another pc - worried about disk corruption

I use scheduled tasks that calls a batch file, that calls more batch files to move about three files from a pc, to a server, then to multiple other pcs. It all happens very quickly, as they are small files. Are there any pitfalls for how fast these…
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