[PennMUSH] Blasting my MUSH back to the stone age?

[Talvo Hornblower]

As far as I know, the MUSH would only create the minimal db if it couldn't 
find your db at all. Corruption should cause it to throw an error and just 
shut down again. One possibility is that you didn't restart your db with the 
restart script, but ran netmud directly - the restart script renames "outdb" 
to "indb", and it's "indb" that the MUSH looks for when it first boots up. 
Another possibility is that you changed the compression type in mush.cnf, so 
the MUSH was looking for "indb.gz" but only found "indb". But check in 
game/data for basically any file that doesn't just contain a minimal db. 
game/save is also a good place to look.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Brockert" <andrew at mercuric.net>
To: <pennmush at pennmush.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [PennMUSH] Blasting my MUSH back to the stone age?


> The initial blank DB is generated by the code, so yes, it's quite
> possible. You probably did something that corrupted the DB to the point
> where Penn couldn't read it, OR broke the DB-reading code. Either way,
> it throws its hands up and starts fresh. This is why backups are a Good
> Thing.
>
> Jeff Ferrell wrote:
>> Hi, everybody!
>>
>> Interesting thing today -- I was doing some serious violence to my
>> MUSH (shutting down, restarting, occasionally PANIC-ing, etc), and all
>> of a sudden, I couldn't log in. I checked my database file, and it's
>> back to the initial "blank" DB -- one room, and the "one" character.
>> Is that even *possible*?! I've got some old backups, but I'd really
>> like to find my DB.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jeff.
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