database corruption

[Dave Lovelace]

Fred Yankowski wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:27:49PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> > The noise indicates a problem.  I don't have solid info on what's 
> > significant and what's not.  One test would be simply to run "bogoutil -d 
> > xxxlist.db".  Output is alphabetical and you could see how far it gets 
> > before it stops/loops/whatever...
> 
> I tried that and it completes without reporting any error.  The last
> entries start with the character displayed as umlauted 'y' and encoded
> as 0x377, which seems pretty far into the collating sequence.
> 
For me it seemed to be going on forever (on goodlist.db), so I killed
it & started checking.  There are some things that seem to be out of
order (but this might be result of embedded control characters), but it
definitely starts looping & keeps it up forever until killed.

Any suggestions on how to fix it without losing everything?

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- Dave Lovelace
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