[p4] Error when restarting the Perforce Server.

[Robert Cowham]

I personally find that setting or relying on P4ROOT can lead to problems if
you ever have more than one installation on a box (and who doesn't at least
do some testing from time to time). I have nearly caused myself too many
problems in the past with this and the odd extra grey hair when at a
client's site!

Thus "p4d -r <dir>" is always my option of choice for doing server related
stuff.

Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Raghu Kumar C
> Sent: 21 April 2007 16:26
> To: Robert Cowham; anand at icmgworld.com
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Error when restarting the Perforce Server.
> 
> Thank you Robert and Anand. At first during my cursory log 
> check I missed out the error. Later when the Perforce Support 
> person asked me to check it again, I found that my DB version 
> had slipped from 6 to 5. I had reinstalled Perforce Server 
> 2003.1. I think initially my system had 2002.1 and we had 
> upgraded to    2003.1. So during an uninstall and reinstall 
> the DB upgrade didnt happen and that could have resulted in 
> the error. I ran the p4d -r . -xu command from my root and 
> things worked fine. I spend around 5 to 6 hrs to figure this 
> out. Initially it could have been due to an erroneous PORT 
> environment configuration as I had a Proxy running on the 
> same machine. But later when I reinstalled it the DB created problems.
> 
> I was really impressed with Perforce Support as they 
> supported even after the contract expired long back.
> 
> -raghu
>