[IRCServices] db recovery?

[Jim Stratus]

When I removed the oper.db file (I actually renamed it) but I removed it, 
services generated a new one, however this resulted in all databases being 
lost. Apparently when oper.db was removed per se, services lost all 
registered channels, nicks, admins, everything. Is this expected for just 
the removing of oper.db? I thought the other dbs would not be effected by 
this.

Jim Stratus
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.esper.net>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] db recovery?


>     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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