[ZODB-Dev] [ zodb-Bugs-597158 ] POSKeyError out of the blue

[Jim Fulton]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Thursday 22 Aug 2002 6:21 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"TD" == Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>  >>
>>  >> Restarting the strorage server and the ZEO client appears to have
>>  >> solved the problem.
>>  >>
>>  >> I don't have any ideas off the top of my head.  It is likely that
>>  >> the POSKeyError was raised by the underlying storage
>>  >> (FileStorage, I assume)
>>
>>  TD> Are you using a recent cvs version, or 2.5.x? If I remember
>>  TD> correctly you have previously had problems with FileStorage
>>  TD> fsindex getting confused by 2.5.x BTree bugs.
>>
>>I don't remember Chris having this problem.  Can you explain what the
>>problem was?
>>
> 
> There have been several reports of POSKeyError and other FileStorage problems, 
> where everything starts working again after shutting down Zope and deleting 
> the Data.fsindex file. I dont remember seeing any such bugs back when 
> FileStorage's index was a plain dictionary.
> 
> So far all these reports are from people using 2.5.x. Not from earlier 
> versions (which use a plain dictionary) or later versions with Tim's BTree 
> bug fixes
> 
> 
> So, Chris, which version was this on?

And Chris, did you delete the index file?

Jim


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