Problems upgrading from cyrus 2.1.18 to 2.2.13 on debian etch

[Alain Spineux]

On Nov 27, 2007 7:53 PM, Steinar Bang <sb at dod.no> wrote:
> >>>>> "Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com>:
>
> > On Nov 27, 2007 6:59 PM, Steinar Bang <sb at dod.no> wrote:
> >> When I try to run the following command line from
> >> /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common-2.2/README.Debian.database.gz
> >>
> >> /usr/sbin/cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db db3 /var/lib/cyrus/temp.db flat
> >>
> >> I get the following error message:
> >>
> >> fatal error: unknown old backend
> >>
> >> What's unknown here?  The "db3" argument?  Or the format of the
> >> deliver.db file?
>
> > # /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb
> > Usage: /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb [-C altconfig] <old db> <old
> > db backend> <new db> <new db backend>
> > Usable Backends:  berkeley, berkeley-nosync, flat, skiplist, quotalegacy
>
> > maybe berkeley instead of db3  :-)
>
> That fails with a different error message:
> $ /usr/sbin/cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db berkeley /var/lib/cyrus/temp.db flat
> Converting from /var/lib/cyrus/deliver.db (berkeley) to /var/lib/cyrus/temp.db (flat)
> fatal error: can't open old database
>
> Is there any way of finding out what the format of the old database is?

#file filename

>
> > Also I advise you use your old tools to convert your db to portable
> > format.
>
> The 2.1 tools, you mean?  Too late.  They went out when I apt-get
> installed 2.2.

Yes, the old one, including the corresponding berkeley db library (if
you upgraded the bdb too)

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