[Exist-open] after DB crash: string index out of range?

[Markus K. <mar...@bs...>]

hi guys,

I am experiencing a strange behaviour after my database crashed. I keep
getting the error "String index out of range: 4044" when I am trying to
access a collection in my database. one of the subdirectories (the most
important one, with my application) was used as a destination path for
an import script which was supposed to create 10.000 new xml files.

I had to stop the server because it seemed like the script was not
terminating. plus, my oXygen editor, my admin client and all my open
webpage tabs (on that server) froze. after starting eXist again the
usual "database 'eXist' doesnt exist" error occured. so after fixing
this issue by deleting the appropriate files I wanted to reindex and
that didnt work.

unfortunately, nothing seems to work to fix it, I keep getting the
following error message no matter what I do:

30 Aug 2011 12:28:12,337 [SocketListener0-4] ERROR (ServletHandler.java
[handle]:593) - /db/ODB/:  
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range:
4044
	at java.lang.String.checkBounds(String.java:409)
	at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:450)
	at
org.exist.storage.io.VariableByteArrayInput.readUTF(VariableByteArrayInput.java:137)
	at org.exist.collections.Collection.read(Collection.java:738)
	at
org.exist.storage.NativeBroker.openCollection(NativeBroker.java:694)
	at
org.exist.storage.NativeBroker.openCollection(NativeBroker.java:662)
	at
org.exist.storage.NativeBroker.getCollection(NativeBroker.java:658)
	at
org.exist.http.RESTServer.writeCollection(RESTServer.java:1566)
	at org.exist.http.RESTServer.doGet(RESTServer.java:353)
	at
org.exist.http.servlets.EXistServlet.doGet(EXistServlet.java:323)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
	at
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428)
	at
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:473)
	at
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)
	at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909)
	at
org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:820)
	at
org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:986)
	at
org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:837)
	at
org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:245)
	at
org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357)
	at
org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)

any idea how to solve this problem? I would really appreciate your
help! I am still using eXist-1.4.1 dev-rev14275.

cheers,
markus