Re: [Sks-devel] Building the local database from a key dump on Ubuntu failing

[Matt Wagner]

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I have hit that error!

In all honesty, at the time, I couldn't figure it out other than that
it had something to do with my sksconf file, so I just deleted the
file and set the relevant options on the command line. (Dumb, I know.)
I had poked around in strace but it wasn't clear to me what was happening.

Now that you mentioned you were hitting the same error, I went back
and tried to debug _where_ in the file it was going wrong. I found
that if I delete the "pagesize" line and everything after it, it works.

And then I read the comment right above it:

# NOTE: These must be set _BEFORE_ [fast]build & pbuild and remain set
# for the life of the database files. To change a value requires
recreating
# the database from a dump

I wonder if what is going on is that one or more of the builds used
incompatible options, or happened before the file was in place? (The
error certainly is not intuitive if that's the case.)

Of course, I have no idea if your error has the same root cause as
mine or not.

Though from experience, it seems like things will work okay if you
don't specify any DB options. Not sure how safe/reasonable the
defaults are, though.

- -- Matt

On 1/3/15 9:23 AM, Cypher wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm currently working on setting up a new public keyserver at 
> pgp.cpunk.us and have run into a problem populating the database
> with the latest key dump.
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I've installed sks by typing
> 
> apt-get install sks
> 
> Things went fine and I downloaded a dump of the keys, current as of
> this morning. Next, I typed
> 
> /usr/lib/sks/sks_build.sh
> 
> and I chose the fastbuild option (I was in the directory directly
> above the key dump files but I've also tried this from within the
> directory with the files and had the same result).
> 
> The result of the command was this:
> 
> === Running (fast)build... === === Cleaning key database... === 
> Fatal error: exception Not_found Command failed unexpectedly.
> Bailing out
> 
> As you can see, it looks like the fast build and cleanup might
> have happened but it literally took seconds so I'm not sure. Of
> course, there's also the "not found" exception that worries me and
> the fact that the software bailed instead of exiting normally.
> 
> Has anyone run into this? Is there anything I can do to get around
> the error? Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks, Cypher
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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