Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem
On Jun 9, 2018, at 11:28, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running > rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it adjusted > the length of every audio cut to zero! Not a bad suggestion _per se_, unless the ‘--yes’ option was used. Doing that, without a current backup in hand, is very reminiscent of a game the Russians invented back in the nineteenth century. You start with a revolver and one bullet… Cheers! |--| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |--| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero| |--|___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem
On Saturday 09 June 2018 11:28:35 am Rob Landry wrote: > That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it > adjusted the length of every audio cut to zero! > > They didn't have a recent database backup, That part, I can relate to, unfortunately. ( yeah, the data recovery guy without a backup. Go figure ) It's so easy to make a backup immediately before doing anything like that, I can't even begin to tell you how incompetent I felt at that moment, but it does happen even to the best of us. I got the data back ( I always get the data back ) but not without pain, embarrassment, wailing and gnashing of teeth, and two days which would have been better spent on other things. I've also learned that if there are other potential causes, such as what Fred suggested, look at the other potential causes before concluding the database is at fault. If I do conclude, not that the database is faulty, but that I can't find any other cause, then I call Paravel support. Usually, he says something like "Uh, you need to talk to Fred." When that happens, I shut up, sit down, and basically get out of the way. Usually, about 5 minutes later, it's fixed. Since we get the "potential release candidate" before you do, this is not a frequent, but also not an infrequent occurrence. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people. -- Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem
On Jun 9, 2018, at 11:28, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running > rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it adjusted > the length of every audio cut to zero! That tells me that the audio store was inaccessible. *Why* that was (device unmounted, NFS problem, etc) I’ve no way of knowing, but put it back and re-run rddbcheck(8), and it should be restore all of the cut lengths. Cheers! |--| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |--| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero| |--|___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
[RDD] Bizarre database problem
A client of mine has been running RD 2.15 for a while on Debian 6. On Thursday, they called me to say they were getting an error when trying to edit markers on audio cuts. I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it adjusted the length of every audio cut to zero! They didn't have a recent database backup, so I had to grab the database from one of their other stations (which has an identical audio library) and use it. That worked, even if I had to re-enter all their events, clocks, and grid hours manually (because, unlike the audio library, these are not the same between the two stations). Has anyone experienced anything like this? Rob -- Я там, где ребята толковые, Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд", Где песни рабочие новые Страна трудовая поёт.___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
[RDD] Log Importation Changes
I finally found time to update from 2.18.2 to 2.19.2. Is there a way to disabled this new feature? It makes it difficult to set the position of voice tracks over the song intros if there is a music import tag in the log. "Log Importation Changes. Changed music and traffic importation so that parent link events are still visible in linked logs." ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
