Error message

[mspak]

Dear all,

I received the following message in "log" window. I will be much appreciate if anyone can explain to me why this will happen? and how to overcome teh problem?

Thank you.

Mspak

1152 DATA yr1995_2015; SET cluster.yr1995_2015;
1153 IF CIK = " " THEN DELETE; RUN;

ERROR: Expecting page 22215, got page -1 instead.
ERROR: Page validation error while reading CLUSTER.YR1995_2015.DATA.
ERROR: File CLUSTER.YR1995_2015.DATA is damaged. I/O processing did not complete.
NOTE: The DATA step has been abnormally terminated.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: There were 533123 observations read from the data set CLUSTER.YR1995_2015.
WARNING: The data set WORK.YR1995_2015 may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there
were 182244 observations and 1007 variables.
WARNING: Data set WORK.YR1995_2015 was not replaced because this step was stopped.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 39.68 seconds
cpu time 8.54 seconds

[LinusH · Accepted solution]

It seems your data set (table) file(s) is/are damaged in some way.

Try REPAIR in PROC DATASETS.

If that doesn't help, you need to either restore it from a backup, or recreate from it's original source.

[mspak]

Yes. I run the programs again from scratch, it did work!