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Re: corrupt bbdb database, & what to do abouti t?
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J. David Boyd |
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Re: corrupt bbdb database, & what to do abouti t? |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:23:47 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) |
Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
> 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("\203!\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 @\307=\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
It's just text... Peruse it, and see if anything looks funny. If it
does, fix it. (Save a backup first, of course!)
Dave