[RAS] [External] Re: RAS database corruption

[Christian Zimmermann]

The ACIS databases have been completely refreshed, the files db now passes 
the tests, the records db now has a large number of "overflow item 
incomplete" errors and fails.

RAS is still functional, but the records that were invisible to users are 
still so, so nothing has been resolved.

Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA
https://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   @CZimm_economist

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