> My standalone terminal is always doing the index, the problem seemed > to have just suddenly showed up for no reason - the system hasn't crashed, > I'm not doing anything 'weird', and I always run fshalt before shutting > down. And this persists across fresh installs.
Not sure what you mean by "doing the index". When you install you will have an empty venti and a full fossil. on the next reboot the whole of fossil will be dumped to venti. This first dump can take a long time (some hours). After this dumps only take (typicially) a few secconds as only changed blocks are written. Is it possible that you did not let this intiial dump finish when you first rebooted your machine. In that case each time you reboot it will be trying to continue this dump (not sure if it starts again from the begining or just from where it left off). Perhaps this could be the "doing the index"? if so, try just leaving it rattling overnight and then fshalt the next morning and it may come back happy the next day. Beware: shutting down during a dump is a bit unfriendly even if you did an fshalt, it may be worth running a "venti check" check on fossil - see fossilcons(8) - this is another very slow process I'am afraid. -Steve
