From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Price Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: corrupt bbdb database, & what to do abouti t? Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:43:45 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272390276 25735 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2010 17:44:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:44:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 19:44:27 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6ope-0006OL-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:44:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6opd-0001ZW-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6op5-0001W7-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54541 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6op3-0001VR-Fg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6op2-0005mh-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:44046) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6op2-0005mH-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:43:48 -0400 Original-Received: by pwi10 with SMTP id 10so4256949pwi.0 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:43:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0i4WwQdiWs0EzLaC9xZcE+Ukv2AV8O8h/odSkfe+vA4=; b=uABliSjs5mplJH+ECEq2oNILxs1t9+L79saVqof2zqK0lU/xXD/rgP48RqXwM50d3w E4pr9Iq+8cCfU33dCV83ADWsBJORPHsBrwmn+DORhimV1rHcdR0IERI5VRL2cciTwa1Q 3mK/CDbZTLLqZY8xvdFJVa4XvZ+doGCkMyLb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BOmx1h/M436/f+4Ld2xnN7qarh2IjA0RpPlzY49zrVdNWWBwhkxX4oZSqLdvdqrx8M dx+5CQ1jI8+UHnG5Qvy7jKcRK8DvltqGO3UEKurpGAAXKOM2J+drsET394xHP6aKNz1U CsUOPn5fLNY44l+WeBSFuVw9qgaxP9y9HqP4A= Original-Received: by 10.143.85.9 with SMTP id n9mr3267244wfl.66.1272390225924; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.143.132 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:43:45 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72848 Archived-At: after two events in rapid succession -- a hard hang on emacs that required me to kill the process, and a minor upgrade of my system (running snapshot packages on ubuntu lucid), my bbdb database appears to be corrupt. i'm just wondering what i ought to do about that, as i spent quite a while harvesting these addresses & don't want to lose them entirely. here's my error message: ---------- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "catastrophic: bbdb-records recursed") signal(error ("catastrophic: bbdb-records recursed")) error("catastrophic: bbdb-records recursed") bbdb-records(nil t) byte-code("=08\203=08!\210\303\304\305\"\210 \207" [w bbdb-hashtable select-window bbdb-records nil t] 3) bbdb-complete-name() call-interactively(bbdb-complete-name nil nil) recursive-edit() byte-code("\306=10 @\307=3D\203! debug(error (error "catastrophic: bbdb-records recursed")) signal(error ("catastrophic: bbdb-records recursed")) error("catastrophic: bbdb-records recursed") bbdb-records(t) bbdb-search-simple(nil "jasonbrown591@rogers.com") -------- has anyone ever seen this before? i'm guessing my bbdb db is corrupt but i'd rather not build it back from scratch, so if anyone has any advice it'd be really helpful. thanks much, matt