Hi Konstantin,

> > [local:e666:S]History>ls -l /History/Events
> > Key name                        Type    #Val  Size  Last Opn Mode Value
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 1                               STRING  1     10    2m   0   RWD  FeDummy02
> > 0                               STRING  1     16    2m   0   RWD  Run transitions
> 
> Something is very broken. There should be more entries here, at least
> there should be entries for "FeDummy01" and usually there is also an entry
> for "FeDummy" because one invariably runs fedummy without "-i" at least once.

This is a fresh experiment that I started just to test this this issue, that is why there are not many 
entries in /History/Events. I agree though that we should expect to see a FeDummy01 entry.
 
> The fact that changing from "midas" storage to "file" storage makes no difference
> also indicates that something is very broken.
> 
> I want to debug this.
> 
> Since you tried the "file" storage, can you send me the output of "ls -l mhf*.dat" in the directory
> with the history files? (it should have the "*.hst" files from the "midas" storage and "mhf*.dat" 
files
> from the "file" storage.

When I started this experiment yesterday(?) I disabled the Midas history when I enbled the file 
history. Jsut now I reenabled the Midas history, so they are currently both active.

% ls -l work/online/{*.hst,mhf*.dat}
-rw-r--r-- 1 hastings hastings  14996 Sep 17 10:21 work/online/190917.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 hastings hastings   3292 Sep 18 16:29 work/online/190918.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 hastings hastings 867288 Sep 18 16:29 work/online/mhf_1568683062_20190917_fedummy01.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 hastings hastings 867288 Sep 18 16:29 work/online/mhf_1568683062_20190917_fedummy02.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 hastings hastings    166 Sep 17 10:17 
work/online/mhf_1568683062_20190917_run_transitions.dat

And again, just as a sanity check:

% odbedit -c 'ls -l /History/Events'
Key name                        Type    #Val  Size  Last Opn Mode Value
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1                               STRING  1     10    1m   0   RWD  FeDummy02
0                               STRING  1     16    1m   0   RWD  Run transitions

Regards,

Nick.