Message boards : Questions and problems : Server/project setup - The storage engine for the table doesn't support descending indexes
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Hello, I hope everyone is safe these days. I've set up set up the BOINC server by compiling the source code and using this guide: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ServerIntro Then, according to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/MakeProject I've tried to run: ./make_project --db_passwd xxx --test_app cplan However, I got the following error: boincadm@debian:~/boinc-src/tools$ ./make_project --delete_prev_inst --drop_db_first --db_passwd XXX --test_app cplan
Creating project 'cplan' (short name 'cplan'):
PROJECT_ROOT = /home/boincadm/projects/cplan/
PROJECT_HOST = debian
URL_BASE = https://debian.debian/
HTML_USER_URL = https://debian.debian/cplan/
HTML_OPS_URL = https://debian.debian/cplan_ops/
KEY_DIR = /home/boincadm/projects/cplan/keys/
DB_NAME = cplan
DB_HOST =
Delete /home/boincadm/projects/cplan/?[y/N] y
Deleting /home/boincadm/projects/cplan/
Continue?[Y/n] y
Creating directories
Generating encryption keys
Copying files
failed to copy /home/boincadm/boinc-src/tools/db_query to /home/boincadm/projects/cplan/bin/db_query
failed to copy /home/boincadm/boinc-src/tools/watch_tcp to /home/boincadm/projects/cplan/bin/watch_tcp
Setting up database
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./make_project", line 234, in <module>
project.install_project()
File "/home/boincadm/boinc-src/py/Boinc/setup_project.py", line 612, in install_project
drop_first = options.drop_db_first
File "/home/boincadm/boinc-src/py/Boinc/database.py", line 291, in create_database
_execute_sql_script(cursor, os.path.join(srcdir, 'db', file))
File "/home/boincadm/boinc-src/py/Boinc/database.py", line 277, in _execute_sql_script
cursor.execute(query)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 209, in execute
res = self._query(query)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 315, in _query
db.query(q)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 239, in query
_mysql.connection.query(self, query)
MySQLdb._exceptions.OperationalError: (1178, "The storage engine for the table doesn't support descending indexes")
Do I need to use some specific version of MySQL or Python? I've been using the latest versions so far. |
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