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[Phpwiki-talk] Can't access pagedb after PHP upgrade to 4.4.4

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Hello All,

since my ISP updated to PHP 4.4.4, I get the following error from an 
old PhpWiki (1.3.4):

lib/DbaDatabase.php:32: Fatal[256]: dba_open(path/wiki_pagedb.gdbm,c) [<a href='function.dba-open'>function.dba-open</a>]: Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File seek error

and this error if I try to use the gdbm file from a PhpWiki 1.3.12 
installation:

lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Error[256]: dba_open(path/pagedb.gdbm,w) [<a href='function.dba-open'>function.dba-open</a>]: Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File seek error

I really wonder where a "file seek error" could result from.

Any hint what I could try other than restoring the pages from a ZIP 
dump?

TIA,

Oliver
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Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Can't access pagedb after PHP upgrade to 4.4.4

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Oliver Betz schrieb:
> Hello All,
> 
> since my ISP updated to PHP 4.4.4, I get the following error from an 
> old PhpWiki (1.3.4):
> 
> lib/DbaDatabase.php:32: Fatal[256]: dba_open(path/wiki_pagedb.gdbm,c) [<a href='function.dba-open'>function.dba-open</a>]: Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File seek error
> 
> and this error if I try to use the gdbm file from a PhpWiki 1.3.12 
> installation:
> 
> lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Error[256]: dba_open(path/pagedb.gdbm,w) [<a href='function.dba-open'>function.dba-open</a>]: Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File seek error
> 
> I really wonder where a "file seek error" could result from.
> 
> Any hint what I could try other than restoring the pages from a ZIP 
> dump?

for gdbm and berkeley db files you can use the command line tools.

db: db_dump, db_verify, db_recover, db_laod
gdbm: dumpgdbm, testgdbm, loadgdbm

This helps with corrupt db files. I'll post my db3 cron jobs today.
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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Can't access pagedb after PHP upgrade to 4.4.4

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

> > since my ISP updated to PHP 4.4.4, I get the following error from an 
> > old PhpWiki (1.3.4):
> > 
> > lib/DbaDatabase.php:32: Fatal[256]: dba_open(path/wiki_pagedb.gdbm,c) [<a href='function.dba-open'>function.dba-open</a>]: Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File seek error

[...]

> gdbm: dumpgdbm, testgdbm, loadgdbm

sadly not available on the ISP's server.

> This helps with corrupt db files. I'll post my db3 cron jobs today.

I don't think the files are corrupt since it happened on four 
different wikis with data in different directories, and the file 
modification time of all files is in the past. My nightly ZIP dump 
from another computer (using wget) worked till the ISP updated to new 
harware and PHP 4.4.4.

Well, maybe the transfer to the new hardware went wrong, but it's not 
very likely.

I will try to install the tools locally, thanks for the hint.

Oliver
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Oliver Betz, Muenchen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Can't access pagedb after PHP upgrade to 4.4.4

[Oliver B. <li...@gm...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

[...]

> gdbm: dumpgdbm, testgdbm, loadgdbm

I stand corrected: using Cygwin's dumpgdbm I get a "File read error" 
on my local computer, so the gdbm files seem indeed to be corrupted.

Sadly the error message doesn't help very much finding the reason. 
The gdbm file contains text of the wiki, I have no knowledge about 
the binary format.

Rather strange...

Oliver
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Oliver Betz, Muenchen