Re: [Sks-devel] Fatal error: exception Bdb.DBError("unable to join the environment")

[Yaron Minsky]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:56:46 +0100, Sascha Silbe
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> Hi!
> 
> I now got sks built and installed; after providing more space
> build/cleandb/pbuild worked fine, too (sks now occupies 5-6GB instead of
> the 3-4 mentioned in the Wiki).
> "sks db" is working fine, but "sks recon" gives me headaches.
> The first invocation bailed out with 'Fatal error: exception
> Bdb.DBError("mmap: Cannot allocate memory")'. After bumping the memory
> limits from 64MB to 128, I get this error:
> Fatal error: exception Bdb.DBError("unable to join the environment")

I suspect your previous crash corrupted the database.  That's why you
were later unable to join the environment.  Try doing a db_recover the
PTree directory.  If that doesn't work, blow away the directory and do
another pbuild.

> I do not have any peers yet, so my "membership" and "mailsync" files are
> empty. Is that the reason for this error? If not, what could be wrong?

No, I don't think that could explain it.

> CU Sascha
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