Re: Re: Bug#237076: zinf: Zinf fails to start

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> writes:

> Kristian Kvilekval writes:
>
>> Remove ~/.zinf and restart.  I've seen this only when the metadatabase
>> (old style) gets corrupted.
>
> Being a survivor of several Zinf upgrades, I can tell you that with
> pretty much every version of Zinf you need to blow away ~/.zinf,
> otherwise the new version will be seriously fubared.
>
> Unless the upgrade path is stabilized, it's a good idea to have Zinf
> autorename ~/.zinf to ~/.zinf.save.$RANDOM if it does not recognize
> its current version.
>
Seconded.

Andy
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