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Of Sergiu Dumitriu
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:59 PM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] - trouble restarting xwiki

Skinner, John (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Sergiu Dumitriu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:49 PM
> To: XWiki Users
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] - trouble restarting xwiki
> 
> John V. Skinner wrote:
>> Ah, but i found 
>>        webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.hsql.xml also.
>>      In this file the connection.url was jdbc:hsqldb:file:db/xwiki_db
>>
>>
>> There is also 2 very large files,
>> xwiki_db.log.delete,
>> xwiki_db.script.delete
>>
>>      Are these roll-back files of some kind?
>> I don't find the xwiki_db file at all.  Don't know why not.
>>
>>
> 
> Your setup looks really weird. There shouldn't be any .delete files. 
> The hibernate.cfg.hsql.xml file shouldn't be used unless you 
> configured something in xwiki.cfg.
> 
> When did this error start to happen? Did you do something on the
server?
> 
> We had to shutdown systems over the weekend, and it didn't restart for

> me today.
> Nothing at all that I can think of.
> 
> As a general tip, the provided hsql database is not supposed to be 
> used in large wikis, and not in production. I guess we should 
> emphasize this in the download and installation notes.
> 
> Well, I admit to knowing this was beta.
> If I can recover the database through these .delete files, that would 
> be good.
> I find all the text in there.
> 
> It includes text like:
> INSERT INTO XWIKIDOC VALUES(-1324373334, 'Main.sometitle',
> 'stuff','','','en',0,'2008-05-05 14:58:17.00', (and a fair amount of
> text)
> 

For a start, you should:
1. Make a backup of those files. They are important.
2. Try to rename them to xwiki_db.log and xwiki_db.script (just delete
the .delete extension) 3. If it doesn't work, then check the access
rights. By default, HSQL should not throw an error, but create a new
database if it doesn't find its files.
4. If it still doesn't work, if you know SQL, or somebody else that
knows SQL, check the file to see if it is corrupted. Remove the broken
lines and try again.

>> This  (steps 1,2 + restart) worked well!
>> I think some recent updates were lost, but most of the data is
recovered.
>> I restarted the server(start_xwiki.sh). The server went idle fairly
quickly.
>> I then opened an url to the xwiki web page.  At this point,the server

>>  appears to to the rebuild of the database because the server was
consuming
>> a lot of time and the initial response took around 2 minutes.
>> Then it all came back up fine.

For the moment, this is all I can suggest.

After you manage to recover the database, you should seriously consider
an update, and switching to mysql or another dbms that supports heavy
load.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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