Re: [Refdb-users] main database is too old or corrupt

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

$,1 .(Bo$,1 /(Bo writes:
 > jozef@clue12:~$ refdba
 > refdba: viewstat
 > main database is too old or corrupt
 > refdba:
 > 
 > Any idea what could go wrong?
 > 

I'm sorry that it took me so long to return to this issue, but my
dayjob is pretty intense these days.

I went to an office computer running Debian, purged all refdb and
libdbi/libdbi-drivers packages to make sure I'm starting from scratch,
and then went ahead by running the following as root:

mortimer:/home/markus# apt-get update
[...]
mortimer:/home/markus# apt-get install libdbi0
[...]
mortimer:/home/markus# apt-get install libdbi0-dev
[...]
mortimer:/home/markus# apt-get install libdbd-sqlite
[...]
mortimer:/home/markus# apt-get install refdb
[...]
Setting up refdb (0.0-cvs-20051003) ...
Starting bibliography tool application server: refdb.
/usr/bin/refdbctl start: bibliography tool application server started
RefDB database ('/var/lib/refdb/db/refdb') is not present.
Creating it now...
Database created successfully.

I have the following entries in my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://refdb.sourceforge.net/debian/cvs/ testing main
deb http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/debian testing main

This installation seems to work ok. viewstat returns the expected
output. I can create databases and use refdbc to connect to these
databases. I can add references and retrieve them.

Now I'd really like to know what's different on those boxes where this
procedure does not work. Do you all use unstable? Could those affected
by the "main database is too old or corrupt" problem send me a list of
the version numbers of the relevant packages? I'm afraid I won't be
able to fix this unless I can reproduce it.

regards
Markus

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