On 25.05.09 13:44, Pedro Ferreira wrote: > Hello, > > We're using ZODB for the Indico Project (at CERN), since 2004, without > any kind of problem. However, today, our database went down and we can't > find a way to recover it. This is a major issue, since we have ~4000 > users depending on this application, and we're simply not able to access > the data in any way. > Around 00:30 tonight the database went down, and since, all the > connections are refused. We tried to restart the database, but the > script seems to hang, while trying to create the index: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6396734704 May 25 13:21 dataout.fs > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 May 25 12:21 dataout.fs.index > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 229755165 May 25 13:22 > dataout.fs.index.index_tmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 May 25 12:21 dataout.fs.lock > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70956364 May 25 13:21 dataout.fs.tmp > What means "seem to hang"? Recreating an index from a GB-ish ZODB can take some time....so for long did you wait? In addition: try to attach to the related process using strace and check if the process shows some activity or: run Zope under the control of strace:
strace -f -oout bin/zopectl fg and tail -f out and see the process halts halt some point.. -aj
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