[RAS] RAS database corruption

[Thomas Krichel]

  Christian Zimmermann writes

> RAS has a corrupted database. RAS still runs, but some series have become
> invisible to it and authors complain their profiles got emptied from those
> items. Trying to push them back (updareq) gets a response that they are
> already there, so nothing is done about it.
> 
> I tried to recover. It exits with no troublesome message, but verifying the
> database gives issues in ACIS/files and ACIS/records. I tried fixing them
> from dump, but dumping crashes. Backups have even more errors when verifying
> them.

  I suggest you make sure you use recent versions of mariadb berkeleydb.

> 
> At this point, I think I am left with having to rebuild the database. But I
> find no indication on how to do that.

  I think you need to empty the database of records, then move the Berkley
  files out of the way and then start updareq. I would take RAS offline
  while this is done.

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  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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