Re: [Sks-devel] Seemingly corrupted DB, not syncing

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-08-06 02:49:24 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 18:06:36 -0500
> Gunnar Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> (but I don't know what recovery it talks about — BDB's?)
>
> I don't know either, but in my experience it does not hurt to stop the
> service and run "db5.x_recover" in the folders containing the
> databases.

Make sure you do this as the non-privileged user who owns the databases,
though.  If you do this as root, it's possible to make the databases
unusable by the normal non-priv user.

         --dkg