Alex Mestiashvili <a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> On 02/03/2013 07:13 AM, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > Package: libpam-abl
> > Version: 0.4.3-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Over the past couple of days, I've started getting a lot of the
> > following messages in my log file:
> >
> >    Jan 30 08:41:01 olgas pam_abl[32671]: Invalid argument (22) while 
> > opening or creating database
> >
> > What's going on?
> 
> Could you please check that the databases are not corrupted by running
> the following commands and paste the output here?
> You need to install db5.1-util package for the tools.
> as root:
> 
> db5.1_verify -h /var/lib/abl users.db
> db5.1_verify -h /var/lib/abl hosts.db

Thanks very much for the help. Let's see:

    $ sudo db5.1_verify -h /var/lib/abl users.db
    db5.1_verify: file unknown has LSN 1019/5969166, past end of log at 
1019/5955818
    db5.1_verify: Commonly caused by moving a database from one database 
environment
    db5.1_verify: to another without clearing the database LSNs, or by removing 
all of
    db5.1_verify: the log files from a database environment
    db5.1_verify: Page 0: metadata page corrupted
    db5.1_verify: Page 0: could not check metadata page
    db5.1_verify: users.db: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed
    Verification of users.db failed.

Looks like trouble.

    $ sudo db5.1_verify -h /var/lib/abl hosts.db
    Verification of hosts.db succeeded.

That looks OK.

> if they seem to be corrupted you can try to recover:
> 
> db5.1_recover -v -h /var/lib/abl

    $ sudo db5.1_recover -v -h /var/lib/abl
    Finding last valid log LSN: file: 1019 offset 5974014

Wow, this has been going for some time. I have to leave now, so I'll
close with an observation and another question for you.

I did a little more investigation. Between the time of the last good log
message and the one I listed above, two unusual things occurred. The
first is that I put my laptop to sleep, and the other is that I
installed the following packages (which don't look like they would
interfere):

  [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libemma-java
  [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libganymed-ssh2-java
  [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libjna-java
  [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libsvnkit-java
  [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libtrilead-ssh2-java
  [INSTALL] libsvnclientadapter-java

Also, I noticed that there were about 1000 old .log files in
/var/lib/abl. Is this normal? Is there a good way to consolidate them?

Thanks again!

-- 
Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov>
http://www.newt.com/wohler/
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