bogoutil runs forever dumping database?

Thor Lancelot Simon tls at rek.tjls.com
Mon Jun 28 19:04:12 CEST 2004


On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:00:48PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> So, I used bogoutil -d piped to bogoutil -l.  Better; but after a
> while, the new database being built by bogoutil -l didn't grow any
> more, but bogoutil -d still sat there generating several megabytes
> per second of read I/O.
> 
> I decided to just dump out the entire database and look at it.  After
> letting this run overnight, I had a multi-tens-of-gigabytes gzipped
> output file, and bogoutil -d was still running.

Okay, so, db_verify says this:

	> db_verify *.db
	db_verify: Last item on page 2616 sorted greater than parent entry
	db_verify: DB->verify: wordlist.db: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed

How can I recover from this condition?  My DB foo is pretty rusty.

Thor



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