Re: [Gramps-users] Corruption in database

[Bob H. <ra...@ba...>]

That's great, thanks.  I can now open the file. =20

It gives a different error when closing, now:

18392: ERROR: gramps.py: line 147: Unhandled exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gramps/ViewManager.py", line 455, in quit
    self.state.db.close()
  File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsDb/_GrampsBSDDB.py", line 983, in close
    self.env.txn_checkpoint()
DBInvalidArgError: (22, 'Invalid argument -- txn_checkpoint: failed to
flush the buffer cache Invalid argument')


I'm not really concerned about this, though, as I've managed to export
the database as a GRAMPS package and re-import it into a new one.  All
the data seems to be there and OK.

Thanks a hell of a lot; I was resigned to having lost the database.
It's great that I've gotten in back :-)

Cheers,

Bob


On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:23 +0000, Richard Taylor wrote:
> Bob
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> Here is something that you might try.
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> Make a backup copy of the .grdb file and your ~/.gramps directory.=20
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> Then rename ~/.gramps/env to something else.
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> Now try to open the .grdb file.
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> I have found this to be required when I have had problems in the past.
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> Regards
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> Richard
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> On Saturday 27 January 2007 11:47, Bob Ham wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:33 +0100, ben...@ug... wrote:
> > > Which version of GRAMPS are you using?
> > >  From 2.2.3 there are automatic backups on exit that might help you.
> >
> > It's version 2.2.2.
> >
> > > Also, I suppose your database is a GRDB file, yes?
> >
> > Yes
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> > > Normally killing a GRDB
> > > should not corrupt your database, but there where some problems in
> > > version 2.2.1/2
> >
> > Oh dear :/  What kind of problems?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bob
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Bob Ham <ra...@ba...>