Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/28

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Subject: [Leica] LUG archives online again, and search works
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:46:39 +0200
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Thanks Brian for your efforts and work for us,
Cheers
Lluis


El 28/05/2009, a las 16:41, Brian Reid escribi?:

> 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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Replies: Reply from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] LUG archives online again, and search works)
In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] LUG archives online again, and search works)