[Zope] Re: packing with zeo error

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:41:14AM +0000, Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:
> george donnelly <list <at> zettai.net> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Dieter Maurer <dieter <at> handshake.de> on 5/11/04 wrote:
> > 
> > >george donnelly wrote at 2004-5-10 23:14 -0500:
> > >>i am trying to pack a zeo-served filestorage, i brought it up as
> > >>read-only, both the zeo server and a client and packed. after about 20
> > >>mins it failed with this error below. can anyone make sense of this
> > >>error for me? and perhaps suggest what i might do to get past it and
> > >>pack my zeo-served zodb?
> > >> ...
> > >I fear this is a difficult one.
> > >
> > i think i found the object(s) causing the problem, tried deleting them
> > but of course they are still there and i can't pack them out.
> 
> I've just experienced the same problem.  I haven't yet identified which
> object(s) are causing trouble, but was wondering about truncating the Data.fs -
> I've heard talk in the past that you can just chop it and it should still pick
> itself up.  Can anyone confirm this, or give further advice? As George said, if
> the bad objects are in the past, you can't delete them as usual, can you?

Have you guys seen this? Not sure if it helps...
http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1054240694

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