Event Error (ID 300) on qvw.shared document

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

The BI server which Qlikview is installed on had restarted on it's own, probably due to an error,

After that I opened the Windows - event viewer to investigate what have gone wrong, and saw that it's filled with errors regarding to the qvw.shared files

Can anyone help to understand what is the issue?

Thanks

these are the errors I see in events:

1. Shared: An exception (An unknown error occurred while accessing D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared.) occurred during reading to D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared.

2. Shared: Error reading shared objects header: GenerationCounters (D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared)

3. Shared: Error reading shared objects header: Toc (D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared)

4. Shared: Error reading shared objects header: Bitmap (D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared)

5. Shared: Failed at flushing D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared.

6. Shared: LowLevelWrite - Failed on verifying the range.

7. Shared: Failed at flushing D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared.

8. Shared: Error reading shared objects header: Toc (D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared)

9. Shared: Error reading shared objects header: GenerationCounters (D:\QLIKVIEW\PRODUCTION\APPLICATION\CM TOOLKIT.QVW.Shared)

Example for error #3:

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Perhaps the .shared file got corrupted when whatever happened that caused the server to restart. You can trying using Power Tools 1.2 for QlikView to repair the .shared file.

[Chip_Matejowsky]

Hello Nir,

While the Windows Event System/Application logs can be helpful, they are really secondary to the QlikView Server logs. Would suggest that you configure QVS logging to High Verbosity so that as much information as possible will be written to the QVS Events log.

Base upon the errors you reported, it seems there has been some .Shared file corruption. QVS has built-in .Shared file cleaning functionality, so would suggest that you use it. When you do, be sure to make backups of the .Shared file first.

Hope this helps,

-Chip

[Anonymous]

Thank you Gysbert and Chip,

Your answers are SUPER helpful

It's interesting to learn on managing these shared qvw's in the link Chip attached,

As I understand Power tools is actually a UI instead of using the command line..?

[Chip_Matejowsky]

Yes, power tools is GUI based. Personally, I would use the .shared file cleaning functionality built into QVS, as this came from Qlik R&D and it works really well. Like I said earlier, make backups!