August 2011 - RAS-run

Problem with the REPEC Author Service (fwd)
by 'Christian Zimmermann' 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Someone seems to have trouble logging in. -- Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis P.O. Box 442 St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:19:49 +0300 From: George Halkos <halkos(a)uth.gr> To: authors(a)repec.org Subject: Problem with the REPEC Author Service Dear colleague Trying to logging into REPEC or REPEC Author Service I get the message Sorry Error: Invalid page address. Such screen doesn't exist. If you don't understand why you might be shown this error, take note of the address of this page and report it to administrator. Contact system administrator if you need help with this problem. Please see if we can fix this problem. Thank you in anticipation Best regards George _____________________________________________ George Emm. Halkos Professor Director of Postgraduate Studies Associate Editor in Environment and Development Economics Director of the Operations Research Laboratory Deputy Head Department of Economics University of Thessaly Korai 43 Volos 38333, Greece Τel. 0030 24210 74920 FAX 0030 24210 74772 email: halkos(a)uth.gr http://www.halkos.gr/ http://ideas.repec.org/f/pha228.html

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mistake: data corruption in db
by Ivan Kurmanov 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

I've started working on preparing (fixing) the Storable-serialized data of RAS for proper (full) migration from nebka, and I was working with the live code and live database. And I've made a mistake. The mistake caused an important part of the data in the database -- the data column in the objects table -- to be overwritten with a value that was relevant to only one of these records. In other words, i've put something which looks like a proper document details into description of a large number of other documents. I don't know how many of the records were affected, but i estimate that probably at least several thousands. When I realized what is going on, I've aborted the operation and killed the mysql thread that was doing the job. And before that I've also (via the same mistake) have rewritten all institution details in the DB. This corruption would mean that wrong data would be shown to the users. Specifically, in research profile suggestions and in institutions search. With Thomas' help, I've taken RAS down and has put the Service Temporarily Unavailable page online instead. At the same time I've disabled most of the RAS-related cronjobs in the aras account. And I've started a full update of RePEc in the update daemon, which should rewrite the corrupted data with correct data taken from the files. But this update may take days to complete. That's why i've disabled the cronjobs to have as minimal concurrent jobs as possible. I don't have a better estimate now. I'm watching the update daemon log, but i don't expect it to finish soon anyway. -ivan

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Re: [RAS] [root@nebka.stlouisfed.org: Cron <aras@nebka> db_checkpoint -1 -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data && db_archive -d -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data]
by Thomas Krichel 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Dan Hayes writes > It should be stopped now, but I don't get the emails, so you'll have to > confirm. I confirm. > > How are you getting emails sent to aras(a)nebka.stlouisfed.org? Probably by a setting in ~/.forward? Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

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[root@nebka.stlouisfed.org: Cron <aras@nebka> db_checkpoint -1 -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data && db_archive -d -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data]
by Thomas Krichel 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

I am getting these every hour now. It would be good if Dan could make this stop. ----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <root(a)nebka.stlouisfed.org> ----- From: Cron Daemon <root(a)nebka.stlouisfed.org> To: aras(a)nebka.stlouisfed.org Subject: Cron <aras@nebka> db_checkpoint -1 -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data && db_archive -d -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data db_checkpoint: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.6 db_checkpoint: DB_ENV->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

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Re: [RAS] Cron <aras@nebka> db_checkpoint -1 -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data && db_archive -d -h /home/aras/acis/RI/data
by Thomas Krichel 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Cron Daemon writes > db_checkpoint: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.6 > db_checkpoint: DB_ENV->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch This is actually a quite old verison. 5.1 is the one used currently in Debian testing. Normally this is not any problem, I call the utility with the higher version and it works. In Debian there the version number is attached to the utility's name. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

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