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Re: [sup-talk] Recovering a busted ferret db?
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:48 PM, William Morgan
<wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net> wrote:
> Reformatted excerpts from Steven Walter's message of 2009-10-30:
>> I think my ferret db is corrupted. Whenever I do a tag search for a
>> specific tag, sup loads 2 messages and then hangs. Actually, it's
>> using 100% CPU, but I have to kill -9 it; ctrl-c doesn't work. Is
>> there any hope of fixing this without losing all my tag information?
>
> You can certainly move to the Xapian index without losing all of your
> tags. Sup-dump will output everything precious from your index.
Looks like sup-dump hangs, too.
> Is it possible you have a very large thread with that label? E.g.
> thousands of messages, all replying to each other, from some script?
Not very likely. I could believe tens, up to a hundred; 200 at the most.
I am able to Ctrl-C sup-dump when it hangs. Here's the ruby backtrace:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/util.rb:206:in `split': Interrupt
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/util.rb:206:in
`split_on_commas'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/person.rb:108:in
`from_address_list'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/message.rb:104:in
`parse_header'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/ferret_index.rb:276:in
`build_message'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/ferret_index.rb:256:in
`build_message'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/index.rb:150:in
`each_message'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/ferret_index.rb:319:in
`each_id'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/ferret_index.rb:319:in `map'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/ferret_index.rb:319:in
`each_id'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/lib/sup/index.rb:149:in
`each_message'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.9/bin/sup-dump:28
--
-Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
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