Python in Mandrake 8.0 BSDDB broken?

[Oleg Broytmann]

This is certainly FAQ. How can I add a FAQ entry? Whom should I contact?

> > 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_dump185
>    db_load (from Berkeley DB utilities).

Oleg.
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