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Mantis 7657 is a report on a bug related to bug 7514Â that has been
corrupting assets since October 2014, is still doing so, and
apparently will do so forever.   Â
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=7657">http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=7657</a><br>
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7657 includes a Perl program written by Jeff Kelley and I which we
have used to repair the damage to about 3500 assets out of 80K on
our two small grids. <br>
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This is not a permanent fix. 7657 attempts to address that by
asking for a patch. Â <br>
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Judging by our results, the script should make your customers happy
to get back a large number of broken assets. You should, of course,
try it on an backup database with updates disabled, (UPDATE =>
0) as a test. This will print a count of how many assets you have
that are spreading around and making everybody unhappy, and it will
also save the before and after blobs as text to disk for further
analysis, if you are into that. <br>
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In my case, it repaired about 1000 assets out of 35K. Jeff had
about 2500 out of 40K.  I blame my total on my partner's many
attempts to get new shoes.   My standalone HG server can scan and
repair about 5K assets a minute. Â Having peeked in her inventory,
that's a lot of shoes per second.  And I can finally rez the things
I got from OSCC. Â Â The Bad/Total ratio is at 4.3% now between our
two small Windows grids.  I would love to hear how your grid fares,
especially if any corrupted assets have spread to Linux, as that
may get attention and a fix from Those Who Know How To Fix Things.Â
If you make changes to the Perl, I would appreciate any patches or
advice direct to my email. I plan to maintain this and other Perl
DB code for Opensimulator in the free script library at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.outworldz.com">http://www.outworldz.com</a>.<br>
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Unfortunately, the Perl must be applied periodically as the
corrupted assets will just travel the HG, and re-infect every
database, including both Linux and Windows machines. As well as
OARs and IARs. It appears from our studies that it will never stop,
without a patch to core.  <br>
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What we propose may seem to be a hack, but what else can be done?<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Ferd Frederix, aka <br>
</font>Fred K. Beckhusen
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fred@mitsi.com">fred@mitsi.com</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.outworldz.com">http://www.outworldz.com</a>
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