Re: [Gramps-users] DB Error

[Tom W. <to...@ad...>]

That worked,  Thanks!

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 03:43, Benny Malengier wrote:
> This is a database inconsistency due to the original error (which we no
> longer know what it was, unfortunately). Do the following:
>
> 0/backup data as .gramps/.gpkg file
> 1/You have a family name wich has no data and is the only occurrence of the
> family name. The check tool cannot correct this, read, delete fails as it
> is the last occurence of a family name and deleting that means some
> reference tables must be adapted which the check tool cannot do for
> technical reasons.
>
> Just look for this single empty name in person view and make it non-empty
> or delete it. (This is a long standing bug that is hard to solve but can
> easily be circumvented by a manual delete). The name is normally at the top
> with spaces as family name.
> 2/in tools menu run: Rebuild reference tables
> 3/in tools menu run: Rebuild secondary indexes
> 4/in tools menu run: Check and repair tool
>
> Benny
>
> 2008/5/21 Tom Weichmann <to...@ad...>:
> > HI,
> >
> > I'm having a problem with my database.  Kind of a long description so
> > stick with me:
> >
> > While I WAS running Gramps 2.2.10:
> > I had a woman (called her Jane) who I had found in a census so I added a
> > new
> > set of parents, added her mother, father and 2 brothers.  After I did
> > this I
> > realized that I had already had her in a family with a 3rd brother but no
> > parents.  I went into the "no parents" family and removed her and her
> > brother
> > and added them into the "new" family.  I then tried to delete the "no
> > parents" family and gramps gave me an error (sorry I didn't keep the
> > msg).
> >
> > The "no parents" family disappeared and all appeared fine in the Family
> > View.
> > When i went to the pedigree view, the woman "Jane" showed no parents. I
> > went
> > back into Family view and she is shown in the family.  I tried removing
> > her and re-adding her, but problem still exists.  I tried completely
> > removing the
> > family and re-making the family and the problem still exists.
> >
> > Next I updated to Gramps 3.0.1 and after importing the DB the problems
> > still
> > exists.  I again tried completely removing and re-creating the family,
> > tried
> > making a new "test" family with new "test partents", still no parents
> > show up
> > in pedigree view, but do in family view.
> >
> > Here are two errors that I get from gramps:
> >
> > 1: When I right click on "Jane" or any of her children I get the
> > following: 749177: ERROR: gramps.py: line 160: Unhandled exception
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/DataViews/PedigreeView.py", line 1159, in
> > person_button_press_cb
> >    self.build_full_nav_menu_cb(obj,event,person_handle)
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/DataViews/PedigreeView.py", line 1490, in
> > build_full_nav_menu_cb
> >    sib_list = fam.get_child_ref_list()
> > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_child_ref_list'
> >
> > 2: I ran the db error checker and I got the following (not sure if it is
> > related):
> > 934598: ERROR: _Tool.py: line 255: Failed to start tool.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/PluginUtils/_Tool.py", line 251, in
> > gui_tool
> >    tool_class(dbstate, uistate, options_class, name, callback)
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/plugins/Check.py", line 177, in __init__
> >    checker.cleanup_empty_objects()
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/plugins/Check.py", line 674, in
> > cleanup_empty_objects
> >    remove_func(handle, self.trans)
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/gen/db/base.py", line 2063, in
> > remove_person
> >    self.remove_from_surname_list(person)
> >  File "/opt/gnome//share/gramps/gen/db/dbdir.py", line 1354, in
> > remove_from_surname_list
> >    if self.surnames.keys().count(name) == 1:
> > DBError: (0, 'DB object has been closed')
> >
> >
> > Anyone have any idea how to fix this?  I'm fine with sending someone my
> > db if
> > need be.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tom Weichmann
> >
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