Re: [Gramps-users] Problems with Check and Repair Tool

[Emrys W. <emr...@ev...>]

I think that, no matter how broken gramps was, it shouldn't be able to
"freeze" an entire linux system. If the keyboard stops working, then the
internals of linux are in a mess, and no user program, no matter how
bizarre, should be able to do that. It implies either a bug in the linux
kernel, which happens to be exercised by some sequence of gramps operations,
or a fault in your hardware which linux isn't hardened against, again
exercised by gramps operations. Tedious, but not really gramps's problem.

The fact that the gramps check-and-repair tool doesn't detect upsets in the
database which later cause errors elsewhere in gramps is more relevant. This
happened to me, too, although I have no idea if it was the same bug. I
deleted the records of the people from the database and re-entered them by
hand, and the errors went away.

Emrys Williams

2009/4/28 doug <dro...@al...>

> Hi,
>
> I originally filed a bug report on what I thought was a bug in NavWeb.
> On further testing it's obviously not that; but I'm not sure what to do
> next.
> I'm hoping you Gramps-users can give me some advice. There seem to be a
> couple of problems:
>
> I'm using 3.1.1 on Mandriva Linux 2008.1 64-bit.
>
> I've twice had gramps freeze the entire system on me  - with two
> different databases during different editing processes. When this
> happened I couldn't kill the program, the X-server, Ctrl-Alt-Del, etc.;
> the screen, keyboard and mouse were frozen. I could only get out by
> pulling the power supply.
>
> In these circumstances there were no error messages.
> So the first problem:
> (1) How can I follow this up?
>
> My filesystem is ReiserFS. After each deliberate crash I got back to the
> state before the freeze: the databases seemed perfectly OK.
> Except that when I now attempted to create a NavWeb Report from those
> databases, the Report would not work with the option 'include persons
> marked private' disabled. (It worked perfectly with other databases). It
> crashed, the error dump indicating that for some record or other the
> Privacy attribute was unset or missing.
> This wasn't apparent in gramps itself: I was able to filter on persons
> marked private or not marked private without errors.
> Moreover the Check and Repair Tool indicated there were no internal
> errors in the databases.
> So the second problem:
> (2) Check and Repair did not pick up errors in the Privacy attributes of
> one or more of the records. Could something be done about this?
>
> I've put the details of the crashes in bug report 0002942
>
> Doug
>
>
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