[IRCServices] db recovery?

[Andrew Church]

     Services is designed to not overwrite database files until the new
copies have been safely written to disk; this looks more like a case of
filesystem corruption at the OS level, probably due to the write cache not
being written out to disk when the system restarted.  You'll have to either
restore from a backup or remove the corrupt files (e.g. "rm oper.db").

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>My server box itself rebooted of some fatal error that apache caused, and 
>naturally ircservices was not shutdown properly, nor was much of anything 
>else. My services have run stable for at least 5 years now, according to my 
>log which is proof of that, I haven't even had to use the log which is 
>definitely apparent. However, I now have the problem that services is not 
>loading anymore.
>
>[Mar 02 23:58:52 2006] IRC Services 5.0.57 starting up
>[Mar 02 23:58:52 2006] database/version4: Invalid version number (0) on 
>oper.db
>[Mar 02 23:58:52 2006] database/version4: Unable to read version number from 
>oper.db
>[Mar 02 23:58:52 2006] operserv/main: Unable to read from database! 
>(code -1)
>[Mar 02 23:58:52 2006] modules: init_module() failed for operserv/main
>[Mar 02 23:58:52 2006] Error loading modules, aborting
>
>I fear this may have been caused by the server's pre-mature termination of 
>the process. Can the database or file be repaired?
>
>Jim Stratus
>BlazeIRC Network 
>
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