Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great work, thanks for keeping it alive! On May 28, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein