[Discuss] Jabber Server sm database recovery?

[Derek Atkins]

Okay, I converted from BerkeleyDB to MySQL using the conversion script
and all appears to be working again.
-derek

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Hey,
>
> Another aspect of my server upgrade fiasco is that my jabber server wont
> start.  The jabberd/sm service can't read its database.  It claims
> there's a version mismatch.  I tried running db_recovery but *it*
> complains about a lot of stuff.  The jabber db dump script can read the
> database just fine and prints out a nice XML document of all my
> contacts, but of course there is no way to read that XML back in (as far
> as I can tell).
>
> Any suggestions for what I can do?  I don't want to hand-enter all my
> contacts again.  I could try to use the bdb2mysql script, but I really
> don't want to use mysql if I don't have to.  Is there some way to use
> the bdbdump.pl and then re-initialize the database from the XML dump?
>
> If I move the database out of the way the service starts just fine.
>
> This was all working quite happily under F12, but now at F14 I'm
> sans-Jabber.
>
> -derek

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