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Subject: [Leica] LUG archives online again, and search works
From: eric.calderwood at btinternet.com (EricC)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:51:53 +0100
References: <AA59F8BF0094EA7B38A1745E@hindolveston.reid.org>

Many Thanks Brian.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <LUG at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: [Leica] LUG archives online again, and search works


>I have finished my repairs of the LUG archives. The purpose of these 
>repairs was to make the search facility work again, which it does.
>
> An unpleasant side effect of repairs to the search facility is that I had 
> to re-generate all of the index files used by the search, which took a 
> long time. And during that long time, I had to leave updates turned off, 
> because I couldn't have the archive be changing while I was re-indexing 
> it.
>
> This problem was introduced when I moved the LUG to a new server computer 
> in March, and only now have I finished figuring out what went wrong and 
> fixing it.
>
> For the technically inclined, the problem was that the new server used 
> v4.6 of Berkeley DB, and the LUG archives had been using v1.8 since the 
> beginning. The file format compatibility finally broke, and I had to 
> regenerate all of the BDB indexes, but I kept on finding version skew 
> under musty old rocks, as this or that auxiliary program needed to be 
> re-linked or upgraded to be compatible with BDB 4.6.
>
>
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