It was indeed a corrupted db.docdb.
I have never need to delete it before, when this happens.
There must have been some other sort of problem.

I'll add the delete to my scripts and then I won't have to remember to 
delete before running
  --
'ooroo

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On 01.05.2002 22:26 Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to stinga:
> > G'day all,
> >
> > htdig:3.1.6
> > linux:2.2.17
> >
> > I can't seem to get my database to work again.
> > Usually when I get this problem, I just recreate the database and
> > everything is OK, but not this time.
> > I have just upgraded to 3.1.6 from 3.1.5 in case there was anything
> > there. No change.
> >
> > I am going to remove the ...db/* files and start again and see if
> that
> > helps.
> > Any body got any better ideas?
> >
> > ----gory bits----
> >
> > BAD TAG IN SERIALIZED DATA: 101
> > BAD TAG IN SERIALIZED DATA: 104
> > BAD TAG IN SERIALIZED DATA: 84
> > BAD TAG IN SERIALIZED DATA: 50
> > BAD TAG IN SERIALIZED DATA: 59
> > BAD TAG IN SERIALIZED DATA: 46
> > DB2 problem...: page 7958: illegal page type or format
> > DB2 problem...: PANIC: Invalid argument
> 
> Looks like a corrupted db.docdb file to me.  If you haven't removed it
> yet, with 3.1.6 you can try running htdump and then htload to get an
> ASCII
> dump of db.docdb (if it's usable enough to extract), and then recreate
> it from the ASCII dump (in db.docs).  That may prevent the database
> from being a total loss.  However, if it's not a big problem to do so,
> the surest solution would be to rebuild it from scratch using rundig,
> or htdig -i and htmerge.
> 
> --
> Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:
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> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)
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