anomalous subjects

[Matthias Andree]

"Tom Anderson" <tanderso at oac-design.com> writes:

>>> However, I don't know if this is coincidence or not, but just four
>>> messages later, I had this error:
>>>
>>> bogofilter: (db) db_get_dbvalue( 'aperiodic' ), err: -30982,
>>> DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
>>> bogofilter: (db) db_close err: -30982, DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
>>> database recovery

> From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree at gmx.de>
>> Strange, haven't seen these in ages. Are you using NFS or something?
>> Multiple wordlists?
>
> No on both counts.  It's a relatively standard, minimal Gentoo install, with 
> Sendmail, Procmail, Apache, and other common mail/web server software. 
> /home, /var, and / are reiserfs while /boot is ext3.  I noticed an oddity 
> with reiserfs in another thread... might this be related?

No for reiserfs 3.6 in any 2.6.X release kernel and recent 2.4.X release
kernels.

> BTW, since I upgraded my server, which included the change in filesystem 
> type along with an upgrade in bogofilter from 0.17.x to 0.92.8, I've noticed 
> a severe crippling of bogofilter's effectiveness.  Not sure why.  I hope 
> that ongoing training will fix it relatively quickly.

Also strange. Have you kept a textual dump (bogoutil -d) of your
database that you could compare (wdiff or diff) to a current dump?

>> There are multiple variants floating, db_verify, db4_verify,
>> db41_verify, db4.1_verify, db_verify in a special path, db_verify-4.1,
>> db_verify41 and so on.
>
> Would it hurt to mention that exact paragraph above in the FAQ?  Clearly 
> there is a reason for distributions to rename this program, such as perhaps 
> different versions of db on the same system.  If it is so common, it 
> deserves a small note in the FAQ.

I've added a small note to the beginning of the paragraph. It will take
a short while to propagate though (some hours).

-- 
Matthias Andree