[Gramps-users] Database corruption issues

[John R. <jr...@cl...>]

I have a continuing problem with Gramps version 3.4.3 on Mageia 3
with corrupted databases.

Each attempt to open any one of a number of different trees results
in messages indicating the databases are corrupt and that a
recovery needs to take place.

The message text returned in the gui window is as follows:

Invalid argument -- BDB2509 the log files from a database environment

However the message returned on the terminal window is:

456574: ERROR: dbloader.py: line 93: Invalid argument -- BDB2509 the
log files from a database environment

The message returned is obviously truncated and makes it rather
difficult to determine the reason for the problem.

Attempting to follow the procedures detailed at: 

http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=5311
and at:
http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_family_tree#What_to_do_now?

haven't produced good results either because as soon as an attempt
is made to open a "recovered" database the "corrupted database"
messages are shown again.

Multiple backups of the .gramps directory have been made in the hope
that there is a solution available. At least one of the trees
involved contains several thousand records.

What other suggestions are there and what other information or logs
can I provide?

Cheers

John