[Sks-devel] Re: Fatal error: exception Bdb.DBError

[Gab]

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Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2009-03-15 at 02:33 +0100, Gab wrote:
>> That's the way i launch sksd with /var/lib/sks owned by debian-sks
>> same for /var/run/sks . /var/log/sks is owned by debian-sks.adm
>>
>>> address@hidden:~# sudo -u debian-sks sks db&
>>> [1] 28300
>>> address@hidden:~# sudo -u debian-sks sks recon&
>>> [2] 28301
>>> address@hidden:~# Fatal error: exception Bdb.DBError("unable to join the
>>> environment")
> 
> Right, but before you said:
>> If i launch sksdb& abd sksrecon& singulary all goes well:
> 
> So, the problem is the owner of the files.  You haven't shown a listing
> of the DB dir.  Somewhere, there will be files still owned by root, from
> when you ran it directly.
> 
> There should be two directories, "KDB" and "PTree" -- I don't know where
> Debian puts them.  The contents of those directories are the BDB files;
> eg, on my machine:
> # l -l KDB 
> total 1433456
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks      24576 Mar  5 07:07 __db.001
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks    5611520 Mar 14 01:48 __db.002
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks   26222592 Mar  7 11:53 __db.003
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks      98304 Mar 14 01:48 __db.004
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks      16384 Mar  5 07:07 __db.005
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  411537408 Mar 15 06:18 key
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  130686976 Mar 15 07:21 keyid
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks   10485760 Mar 15 07:21 log.0000000165
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks       8192 Oct 26 04:18 meta
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  122413056 Mar 15 03:00 subkeyid
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  101511168 Mar 15 03:00 time
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks     282624 Mar 12 03:00 tqueue
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  668536832 Mar 15 07:21 word
> # l -l PTree 
> total 98504
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks     24576 Mar  5 07:07 __db.001
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks   1490944 Mar 14 01:48 __db.002
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks   6561792 Mar  7 11:53 __db.003
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks     98304 Mar 14 01:48 __db.004
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks     16384 Mar  5 07:07 __db.005
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  10485760 Mar 15 07:21 log.0000000089
> -rw-------  1 sks  sks  91032576 Mar 15 07:20 ptree
> 
> *Those* are the files which matter.
> 
> If you stop SKS, run db_recover in each of those directories, chown them
> (-R recursively) to Debian-sks and start sks, it should work.  If you
> need help, "locate db_recover.html" (and if it's not installed, find the
> relevant docs package or just hope that the current docs aren't too
> different from whatever was installed:
>   
> <URL:http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/utility/db_recover.html>
> ).
> 
> I'm assuming that you don't have anything *really* odd set in your
> environment; if $DB_HOME is being set then that would explain it.  If
> this is the case, pretty much any BDB application you run will be
> breaking (and the fix is "don't do that").
> 
> -Phil
> 
Great help even if db_recover in debian lenny is db4.6_recover .
I show you in detail:

> address@hidden:/var/lib# ls -ld sks/
> drwx------ 6 debian-sks debian-sks 4096 2009-03-15 12:20 sks/
> address@hidden:/var/lib# ls -la sks/
> total 28
> drwx------  6 debian-sks debian-sks 4096 2009-03-15 12:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x 58 root       root       4096 2009-03-11 23:13 ..
> -rw-------  1 debian-sks debian-sks   48 2009-03-15 12:20 .bash_history
> drwx------  2 debian-sks debian-sks 4096 2009-03-15 14:42 DB
> drwxr-xr-x  2 debian-sks debian-sks 4096 2009-03-12 05:27 dump
> drwx------  2 debian-sks debian-sks 4096 2009-03-15 14:42 PTree
> drwxr-xr-x  2 debian-sks debian-sks 4096 2009-03-09 02:21 www
> address@hidden:/var/lib# ls -la sks/DB/
> total 1005756
> drwx------ 2 debian-sks debian-sks      4096 2009-03-15 14:42 .
> drwx------ 6 debian-sks debian-sks      4096 2009-03-15 12:20 ..
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 120715264 2009-03-13 13:44 key
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 130490368 2009-03-13 13:44 keyid
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks  10485760 2009-03-12 19:34 log.0000000001
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks  10485760 2009-03-12 19:38 log.0000000002
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks  10485760 2009-03-12 21:35 log.0000000003
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks  10485760 2009-03-15 14:42 log.0000000004
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks      8192 2009-03-12 07:16 meta
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 121769984 2009-03-13 13:44 subkeyid
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks  98598912 2009-03-13 13:44 time
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks      8192 2009-03-12 05:39 tqueue
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 515289088 2009-03-13 13:44 word
> address@hidden:/var/lib# ls -la sks/PTree/
> total 108820
> drwx------ 2 debian-sks debian-sks     4096 2009-03-15 14:42 .
> drwx------ 6 debian-sks debian-sks     4096 2009-03-15 12:20 ..
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 10485760 2009-03-12 19:39 log.0000000001
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 10485760 2009-03-15 14:42 log.0000000002
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 90322944 2009-03-15 14:42 ptree
> address@hidden:/var/lib# cd sks/DB/
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/DB# db4.6_recover 
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/DB# cd /var/lib/sks/PTree/
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/PTree# db4.6_recover 
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/PTree# ls -la
> total 108820
> drwx------ 2 debian-sks debian-sks     4096 2009-03-15 14:42 .
> drwx------ 6 debian-sks debian-sks     4096 2009-03-15 12:20 ..
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 10485760 2009-03-12 19:39 log.0000000001
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 10485760 2009-03-15 14:45 log.0000000002
> -rw------- 1 debian-sks debian-sks 90322944 2009-03-15 14:42 ptree
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/PTree# /etc/init.d/sks start
> Starting sks daemons: sksdb.. sksrecon.. done.
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/PTree# netstat -nplt | grep sks
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11370           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   6320/sks        
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11371           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   6317/sks        
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/PTree# /etc/init.d/sks restart
> Stopping sks daemons: sksrecon.. sksdb.. done.
> Starting sks daemons: sksdb.. sksrecon.. done.
> address@hidden:/var/lib/sks/PTree# netstat -nplt | grep sks
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11370           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   6342/sks        
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:11371           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN    
>   6339/sks 

Thanks , great help !

Gab



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