SID-02034: version and text file are out of sync

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.0	Perl version:	5.10.1
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	RedHat Linux 6.5	Last update:	10 years ago

Hi, My / partition filled so I am guessing that twiki was unable to write necessary files there when a user tried to update a page. Consequently, the version file (file.txt,v) does not correlate with the content file (file.txt). This results in an error whenever a change is saved to that file. I've tried copying content into newly created pages and sometimes that works, but other times the error persists. I've tried making the ,v file look up to date with the latest change that's listed on the top of the content file, but it still doesn't like it. Can you please tell me how to get the two files in sync again? Thanks!

-- Julia Simmons - 2015-03-12

Discussion and Answer

Do you have a backup? It might be safest to restore all topics that have been updated with full disk from backup. After that compare the .txt of the backup and the original one. If different edit the topic in the browser and copy the raw topic over to the restored topic.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-03-13

Thanks for the quick response. I was able to pull the files from a backup and all but one of them works. I think my user moved the page that isn't working to a different Parent Topic between the time of the backup and yesterday so it is looking for it in two places. I think I can figure it out or just have him recreate the Topic where he really wants it and copy the text.

-- Julia Simmons - 2015-03-13

Thanks for the quick response. I was able to pull the files from a backup and all but one of them works. I think my user moved the page that isn't working to a different Parent Topic between the time of the backup and yesterday so it is looking for it in two places. I think I can figure it out or just have him recreate the Topic where he really wants it and copy the text.

-- Julia Simmons - 2015-03-13

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-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-12-03

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