Python in Mandrake 8.0 BSDDB broken?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Sreekant Kodela wrote:
> I had M7.1 till now and just updated to M8.0 with Python2.0. I had
> Python 1.5.2 before. I made a large
> bsddb file with thousands of entries. It worked as a dream till now. Now

   This was probably linked with Berkeley DB 1.85.

> Python 2.0 refuses to open it.

   And this with Berkeley Db 2.0+

> It says bsddb.hashopen("catalog.db") is an error.
> bsddb.error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

   This error exactly means "Unknown file format".

> Is there anything I can do to recover the data, apart from reisntalling
> python 1.5.2 !

   db_dump_185
   db_load (from Berkeley DB utilities).

Oleg.
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