[Dxspider-support] Some hints for upgrade Debian Woody -> Sarge

[Thomas Maisl]

Hi,

I was asked by another Sysop to have a look at his installation. 
After an upgrade from Debian Woody to Debian Sarge DXSpider didn't run
anymore.

In short: the format, storable is using now seems to have changed. 
You need to rebuild at least some databases to get DXSpider to work properly
again. 

Here is what I did:
- took the opportunity to update to the latest version and 
- manually started dxspider
>/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl
>Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>DXSpider Version 1.51, build 59.379 started
>loading prefixes ...
>US Database not loaded
>loading band data ...
>loading user file system ...
>can't open user file: /spider/data/users (No such file or directory) 
>[rebuild it from user_asc?] at /spider/perl/DXUser.pm line 150

users.v3 (approx. 10 MB) was available, several versions of user_asc, too.

- therefore I renamed users.v3 and 
- run "perl user_asc" to rebuild/check users.v3 and made another try:

next stop was
>reading database descriptors ...
>doing local initialisation ...
>can't open qsl file: qsl (No such file or directory) at 
>/spider/perl/QSL.pm line 47

- same procedure, renaming existing qsl.v1, running 
>/spider/perl/create_qsl.pl
and finally off we go ;)

USDB needs to be rebuilt, too - but this isn't critical.

73
Thomas

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