[p4] Changelist numbering reset?

[Stephen Vance]

The conventional ways this can happen would be if someone deleted 
db.counters or if someone with super permission executed 'p4 counter -f 
change <some low number>'. Note that neither of these is normal or even 
advisable to do. I would immediately stop the server and contact 
Perforce support to see about repairing as much as possible.

Steve

Cameron Childress wrote:
> Something odd happened on the way to deployment today... Perforce
> seems to have reset it's changelist numbers, assigning low numbers.  I
> also notice that while most items in the history  have an action of
> "edit", that these with low numbers have an action like "edit;Merge
> into //depot/blah#3"
>
> Almost looks like perforce somehow got restarted on changelist
> numbering and is combining the actions from old changelists to the new
> ones.  Also, I can't see any of my recently submitted changelists
> under the "Submitted Perforce Changelists" window, where I usually do.
>
> Anyone seen this before?  The guy(s) who administer this server have
> already gone home for the day so I don't know if something they did
> might be causing this.
>
> The Perforce Windows Client Unicode Version 2005.2.93627
> Resource DLL Version 2005.2.93627
> Server Version: P4D/LINUX24X86/2004.2/85665 (2005/09/12)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Cameron
>
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