[RAS] [External] Re: RAS database corruption

[Christian Zimmermann]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>  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.

Instructions specifically say not to do that.

>
>>
>> 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.

I will research how to do that.

>
> -- 
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                              skype:thomaskrichel
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