Curious Cones

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Welcome to my collection of cones that have found themselves in peculiar circumstances.

Two cones sitting at a table in a university cafe

In the style of Wild Bread, Curious Cones is a catalogue of traffic cones in unusual places, and that is all.

How wonderful and weird our World Wide Web is, that such a thing can exist. And it’s got an 88×31, too (now sported on my blogroll)!

With thanks to Piece of the Pie’s “Site of the Week” for helping me discover it!

Syncthing on Unraid: repairing malformed database disk image

Mostly as a note to myself, but here’s what to do if you’re running linuxserver/syncthing via Docker on Unraid and it keeps saying:

ERR Database error when getting previous version (error="getkv: database disk image is malformed (11)" log.pkg=syncthing)

The problem is that Syncthing’s index has been corrupted. I was able to fix it by getting a shell into the relevant Docker container and moving the index: Syncthing detected it as absent and re-created it, re-indexing everything. Here’s what I did:

docker exec -it syncthing bash
mv /config/index-v2 /config/index-v2-BROKEN

Everything fixed itself immediately and the Docker logs showed the reindex underway.