[Opensim-dev] Older region databases incompatible with the latest SVN

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Mircea Kitsune wrote:
> It's good to know I'm not alone with this somehow. This probably only 
> happens with certain databases... maybe the issue is that the version 
> migration tool expects every UUID to contain the 4 dashes too and 
> considers UUIDs which don't have the - - - -  symbols placed in them 
> corrupted (as it says in the error message)? Also does restoring an old 
> OAR archive if nothing else can be done fix the problem, or are previous 
> OARs considered corrupt as well?
> 

The OAR mechanism is independent of database data representations and so should be fine.

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> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 05:17:39 -0800
> From: diva at metaverseink.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Older region databases incompatible with the 
> latest SVN
> 
> Yes, I've seen this too. In fact, one of our regions in OSGrid is still 
> suffering from it.
> I'm not sure where the bug is, except that it happened around the 3rd 
> week of January.
> We've been able to get around it by removing the local OpenSim.db, and 
> loading all the objects from backups we had (in xml or oar format, not 
> sure which).
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