Error Database Disk Image Is Malformed

Microsoft office 2016 activation key free. Also, if you'd like this bug to track the ultimate resolution of SQLite corruption errors in Signal Desktop, fine by me. To all future posters: we need as much information as we can get to help us track down what is causing the corruption. Did you restore from backup?

Did you need to Force Close SIgnal Desktop, or turn off your computer without shutting it down normally? What exactly was your computer doing at the last time Signal Desktop was working properly? Beyond that, we really, really need debug logs from right before corruption appeared. You can go into your Signal config directory (locations for each OS are listed here: ) and zip up the logs directory and post it here or send it to. Hi, I am also experiencing this issue.

Jan 17, 2014 - Error: database disk image is malformed, we found this problem running the command yum update. To resolve this issue run the below given.

Interestingly I have no folder at /Library/Application Support/Signal. It doesn't show up after installing Signal, or after telling the desktop app to clear all data, or after uninstalling and reinstalling. Furthermore, I tried creating a folder called Signal within Application Support and then doing what Wolever suggested, but the Terminal insisted there was 'no such file or directory.'

As such, I don't seem to even have any debug logs that I can share. I also tried deleting a random message from a conversation I had with someone on my phone, and then I re-linked Signal Desktop (after clearing all data from the Desktop app) to my phone.

Interestingly, the deleted message still showed up in the thread on the Desktop app. This suggests to me that the messages are being stored somewhere on my computer that I can't find. I also tried installing version 1.20.0 on my Mac again (which as I recall worked fine), but I ran into the same issues. Seems like something deeper in my system has gone wrong and I'm not sure where to look. If there is anything I can do to help, I would be happy to do so.

It's a SQLCipher database, so you can't use plain sqlite to open it. Thanks for sending your logs. Anything else you can say about the state of your computer around the time of discovering the corruption (or the last usage, when corruption might have happened), would be really useful.

Did you have to do a hard restart of your computer? Did you restore from backup? Was there a Signal Desktop update? First, let's talk about how you initially installed Signal Desktop. Was it from, or did you install the beta? Now, when you install a new version, what exactly do you see when you start it up?

Just a dialog? Or does the window pop up? I downloaded and installed Signal Desktop via signal.org.

To my knowledge I have never installed a beta version. I just now re-downloaded and reinstalled it, and upon opening it I was greeted with a blue screen and the text 'Loading messages. This number X increased for a while until the app opened.

Interestingly some recent messages still came through to the Desktop client, but they were all either images or very short messages (a message with the string:) made it through, and messages containing only emoji also seem to get through, but nothing with more text got through). Any messages containing longer strings that I've sent or received after February 12 don't appear to have reached the Desktop client.

I've attached a few screenshots; I hope that helps. The messages indicating that I marked the contact as verified show up every time I clear all data on Desktop and then re-link it to my phone. I have indeed verified the contact in question but only once, and long ago. To navigate to the folder I use Finder (i.e. The GUI rather than via command line). I am running macOS 10.14 and Signal Desktop 1.22.0. Sorry to double-post, but I just found something else interesting: Desktop still displays a copy of all messages I send and receive via my phone, so long as they contain no alphanumeric text.

That means special characters and emoji work, but as soon as there's a letter in it, Desktop doesn't show it. HOWEVER, if I send or receive a message via my phone, that most recent message still shows up in the preview on the left-hand side of the screen on Desktop, regardless of the content. As soon as I click on that person's tab, the preview disappears and is replaced by the most recent non-alphanumeric message. (The preview also appears for a couple seconds even if I am already viewing the conversation in question, but then it vanishes shortly thereafter.) Finally, Desktop seems to think that any messages I send from my phone do not get received by the recipient; that is, it shows only one checkmark by the sent message, even though I can confirm (and my phone shows) that the recipient read the message on their phone. Attempting to send an emoji message from Desktop immediately gives me a Send Failed error. I have attached more screenshots. (In case this is relevant, the Activity Monitor consistently shows about 107-109% CPU usage for Signal, as well as 15-25% CPU usage for Signal Helper, so long as Signal is running.

Opening and closing the app works normally; I do not have to Force Quit.) I am sorry for my quick writing style. I hope this helps! Thanks, I got in touch with support. In the meantime, I feel like an idiot ( may be interested to know this) and I successfully found the hidden Library folder located at Users/My Name/Library. (Navigating to my user folder and pressing Cmd + Shift +. Revealed the hidden folders, for the luddites out there like me who may not know.) I can now confirm that Wolever's method works; removing the Signal folder solves the problem (albeit at the cost of losing all your messages on Desktop).

I kept a copy of the original (problematic) Signal folder which I can easily put back where I found it, and I am happy to continue helping with debugging in any way I can. It's a SQLCipher database, so you can't use plain sqlite to open it. Thanks for sending your logs.

Anything else you can say about the state of your computer around the time of discovering the corruption (or the last usage, when corruption might have happened), would be really useful. Did you have to do a hard restart of your computer? Did you restore from backup? Was there a Signal Desktop update? Unfortunately I don't remember any specific details about what happened. Around the time I did have a few hard resets (my mac (10.14.2) was having some trouble waking from sleep), so that's definitely a possibility.

The only potentially abnormal behavior was that it would take Signal quite a long time to load (it would take minutes to load, and IIRC the 'loading messages ' count finished at about 500), where it would typically load in seconds. The database file is 20mb, and I had (very rough guess) about 10,000 messages in it. Also, to elaborate on the behavior: when I would first launch Signal.app, it would correctly show any unread messages (ex, if I closed Signal.app, received a message, then opened Signal.app, it would correctly show that my contact had sent an unread message, and I don't recall whether or not it would show the preview), but when I would click the contact, the unread notification would be cleared, but only historical media messages would be displayed (it's possible older unread messages would show too; I don't recall). When I would try to send a message, it would show locally, but it would have the empty circle that indicating 'not sent yet'.

Would it be possible to retrieve the key used by sqlcipher so I could try loading the database? I also build Electron + SQLCipher app, and a few of our users are getting SQLITECORRUPT errors too. From your package.json it looks like this is happening for your users with version 3.2.1 of node-sqlcipher, which means SQLCipher 3.4.1 and node-sqlite3 3.15.2. Is that right? In our app, we're seeing this behavior with SQLCipher 4.0.1 and a custom-built version of node-sqlite3 4.0.6.

I don't think we ever saw it with SQLCipher 3.x, which we used for 6 months. For our app, I'm most suspicious of potential cause 1.1 listed: 1.1. Continuing to use a file descriptor after it has been closed I'm also suspicious that Electron's multi-process environment (main process and renderer process) may lead to Electron users accidentally making the mistake mentioned in this potential cause 2.6: 2.6. Carrying an open database connection across a fork If it's neither of those.

I would be curious if it's a SQLCipher bug, but you're on a different version of SQLCipher, and it looks like nobody has reported any corruption bugs at, so I'm guessing it's some kind of app lifecycle/forking thing with our app. 🙏 UPDATE: I also asked to see if any other SQLCipher+Electron users have dealt with this. I can't say conclusively that this is related, but I noticed that is using PRAGMA schemaversion, which is generally not a safe practice. Manipulation of PRAGMA schemaversion can lead to. It is almost always best to SQLite to manage the schema version internally. For Signal's use case, i.e.

Tracking application file versions for migrations, the use of would be a much more appropriate replacement. It may be worth a brief investigation into whether this could be a contributing factor in these corruption incidents.