Orange Box of Death is received:
Sorry, an uncorrectable error has occurred.
OSVBlockAddr: Bad VBlock handle (0/9D8)
Press Enter to Abort the Application.
The following online document exists, but states that the situation is still under
investigation:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=OSVBlockAddr&uid=sim14316dea1589c91a185256c620068075b
The numbers 0/0 are different between the posted web document versus 0/9D8 in my situation.
We uninstalled Lotus Notes, Lotus Smartsuite, and Lotus Sametime multiple times. None of this worked until we
started testing the critical files one by one when copied to a "clean system". Critical files being:
names.nsf
*.id
desktop*.dsk
desktop6.ndf
miscellaneous databases
We copied the user.ID files. They worked. When I say worked, I mean the file did not produce the orange box with death message. We then copied the names.nsf file. It worked. We then copied the desktop5.dsk file (which is not needed for Notes 6.0) and it worked. We then copied in desktop6.ndk and launched notes and immediately got the orange box. It was then determined from this process that there was some type of corruption in the desktop6.ndk file. We were able to either create a new desktop6 file by deleting it from the notes/data directory and launching notes which subsequently initializes a new file, or copy a desktop6 file in from another user and personalize it for my taste.
After all this, just to ensure there were no additional problems, I deleted my current local copy of my mail file and re-replicated to create a brand new "clean" replica.
So, after all that work, the subject error message was caused by corruption in the desktop6.ndk fil
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